What can resistance look like today? In search of an answer, Enis Maci draws a line from Jeanne D'Arc via Sophie Scholl to the Albanian Sworn Virgins.
Enis Maci exposes the media strategies of the Identitarian Movement as travesty, questions mother tongue and origin, travels to Valhalla and looks at the bust of the nun Edith Stein who was murdered in Auschwitz. She lingers in the social fringes and weaves the loose ends of that which needs to be told into a dense panorama of the European present. In her essays, the extraordinary intersects with the everyday, the private with the political.
Enis Maci (born 1993 in Gelsenkirchen) is a writer and playwright. She studied creative writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and cultural sociology at the London School of Economics. Her plays have been performed at the Schauspielhaus Vienna (2023/2024) and the Schauspiel Leipzig (2018) to great acclaim. For the 2018/2019 theatre season, Maci was the writer-in-residence at Mannheim's National Theatre. She was awarded the Alfred Döblin Medal in 2021 and the Max Frisch Prize in 2022. She has published four titles with Suhrkamp Verlag.
