Author: Janis

  • Lilith, Sinnlichkeit und Farben [Lilith, Sensuality and Colours]

    Lilith, Sinnlichkeit und Farben [Lilith, Sensuality and Colours]

    Laura Marchig is one of the most important Italian-writing authors in Croatia. She belongs to a generation that grew up under socialism, with rock ‘n’ roll as bread for the soul, and at the same time with the language of Dante. This generation, tired and spent after the war, a war for democracy, is skilled…

  • Yugoslavia Revisited

    Yugoslavia Revisited

    “Jugosphere”? What about a common regional consciousness across the borders of the successor states in the intellectual and artistic sphere? Two decades after the disintegration of the SFR Yugoslavia, the authors of the current focus examine what Yugoslavia was and what of Yugoslavia lives on today.

  • Olivas Garten

    Olivas Garten

    Olivas Garten has been published on 16 August 2013. The narrator, who has lived in Germany for a long time, learns one day that she has inherited an olive grove from her grandmother, in Vodice, on the eastern Adriatic coast. She knows exactly: this will be a daring adventure, a Don Quixote against the headstrong…

  • Southern Air

    Southern Air

    For numerous authors from Germany, Croatia, the land of a thousand islands, is a place of inspiration. Ingo Schulze, Juli Zeh, Veit Heinichen, Erica Fischer, Wladimir Kaminer, Richard Wagner and many others have approached “their” Croatia humorously, thoughtfully, critically and hymnally.And they are accompanied by Croatian authors living in Germany, such as Marica Bodrožić and…

  • Olivas Garten translated to Macedonian

    “Olivas Garten” was published in the Macedonian translation by Ksenija Čočkova by the publishing house Goten from Skopje in December 2014.