Susanne Mayer

Susanne Mayer (* 1952 in Bonn ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author .

Life

Susanne Mayer studied at the Universities of Bonn , Freiburg , Oxford and Ann Arbor and received her doctorate in English from the University of Freiburg in 1985 .

From 1983 she was initially a trainee, then an editor for the Stuttgarter Zeitung . In 1986 she moved to the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit , where she works as a cultural reporter and literary critic in the features section. She has two sons.

For her work she was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1985 and the Emma Journalist Prize in 1990 and again in 1994 .

Fonts (selection)

Books

• The longing for the other. A study of the relationship between subject and society in the autobiographies of Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Lang Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8389-6 .
• Germany poor children's country. How the ego society is gambling away our future; Plea for a new family culture . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-3964-3 .
• The art of aging in style: Experiences from the vintage zone . Berlin-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8270-1300-2 .
• with Gabriele von Arnim, Christiane Grefe, Evelyn Roll and Elke Schmitter: What to do - Democracy does not go without saying . Kunstmann Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95614-210-9 .
• Men! Columns. Berlin Verlag 2018
• The things in our life and what they tell about us . Berlin-Verlag 2019

items

Portraits / conversations

• John Berger - "In the folds of time" How I rode a motorcycle into the mountains with the British author John Berger and learned about rhizomes, pictures and distilling schnapps. THE TIME No. 10/2007
• Kerstin Ekman - "The one who talks to the raven" How we can or should live: A visit to the Swedish author Kerstin Ekman DIE ZEIT No. 2/2008
• PO Enquist - "O you my light. How Per Olov Enquist experienced hell and was awakened to new life" DIE ZEIT No. 12/2009
• EL Doctorow - "Conversations under the shadows" DIE ZEIT No. 1/2011
• Siri Hustvedt - "Why do people love each other?" THE TIME No. 12/2011
• Paul Auster - "This is a divided country" DIE ZEIT No. 30/2012
• Salman Rushdie - "No Compromises" DIE ZEIT No. 49/2012
• Harold Bloom - "What happens in the 6th act" A conversation with Harold Bloom, the enfant terrible of Shakespeare research, about villains, love, nothingness DIE ZEIT No. 16/2014
• Vivienne Westwood - "Strength is exciting" Vivienne Westwood invented punk, raised two sons, turned haute couture inside out, and now she has set out to make the world a better place. DIE ZEIT No. 41/2014
• Sofi Oksanen - "What we experienced" DIE ZEIT No. 41/2014
• Henning Mankell - "When you have wings, they fly" The author Henning Mankell suffers from cancer. How does he feel about illness, his life, and death? A conversation in sunny Antibes. DIE ZEIT No. 13/2015
• Lydia Davis - "In Brief" Lydia Davis is a star of literary America. Her "Stories" - miniatures in prose - are precise, funny, philosophical and are considered a new genre DIE ZEIT No. 18/2015
• Diane von Fürstenberg - "Dare to Do Anything!" Diane von Furstenberg was the it girl of the sixties, she invented the wrap dress, a fashion icon like herself. A visit to New York to see a legend. DIE ZEIT No. 42/2015
• Laurie Anderson - "We are here to feel joy" DIE ZEIT No. 14/2016
• Jane Gardam - "Sweet Lady Jane" THE TIME No. 21/2016
• Marina Abramovic - "My body is a mirror of the cosmos" DIE ZEIT No. 46/2016
• Petina Gappah - "Swinging over the Abyss" DIE ZEIT No. 51/2016

Columns

• Khmer route. Cambodian Diary (11 parts). ZEITOnline 2006
• Men! DIE ZEiT feuilleton
• Finally vintage! ZEITOnline magazine

Contributions to family policy

• In the land of the female men. In: The time. No. 21, May 19, 2005.
• Family row - childless academics. An analysis. In: The time. No. 11, March 10, 2005.
• Our dear old ones. We. In: The time. No. 17, April 15, 2004.

Essays

• In the land of mothers. The German housewife is considered the pillar of the nation. It costs us a fortune when the best trained women stay at home. In: The time. July 13, 2006.
• The boy offering. Men abused boys, many men covered that up. Why? Reflections on a taboo. In: The time. No. 12/2010.
• This spreading silence. Having children can feel like a miracle - and yet it can be so tedious. Which is why there are now far too few children. Why don't we change that? In: The time. No. 2/2016.

Reports

• "Holly Christmas" - Looking for Holly Golightly, Truman Capote and a decent breakfast at Tiffany's in New York DIE ZEIT No. 1/2008
• "Mr. and Mrs. Brown" - Queen Victoria liked wild Scotland, and she especially liked her Scottish servant John Brown. They spent a lovely week at Inverlochy Castle. DIE ZEIT No. 43/2009
• "Traces of Pain" - On July 26th, the International Court of Justice in Cambodia will pass the first judgment - on the Khmer Rouge Duch, head of the torture center S-21. Will that help the survivors of the genocide? A journey through a battered country DIE ZEIT No. 29/2010
• "PunX NOT NiCE" - Fashion Show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Topic: punk and haute couture. What a risk. Question: For whom only? No. 21/2013
• "Nature envied art" - almost 500 years ago the painter and historian Giorgio Vasari wrote biographies of artists of the Renaissance. Now a great edition of his 45 volumes has been published in German. A visit to the workshop in Florence. DIE ZEIT No. 41/2015

Web links

Commons : Susanne Mayer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Susanne Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Susanne Mayer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Femity interview on the situation of women in Germany ( Memento from August 26, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )