Are They Going to Deport Us on a Flixbus?

“The more light-footed, funny and kiss-my-arsey your writing is, the more people lose it. I call it writing dangerously.”

Mely Kiyak applies an expert literary analyst’s eye to the world at large. With ruthless honesty, she uncovers the disastrous, political and dramatic aspects of our present. There are no safe spaces when she’s around.

This “woman with the scary intellect and the oceanic tenderness” (Milo Rau) has produced one of the most extensive range of columns in German literature. The “silk weaver of German columnists” (Kurt Tucholsky Prize jury) loads her artistic revolt with ferocious acumen and magnificent punchlines - without ever losing her wild hope in glamour, wit and humanity. Enlightening, exhilarating, and unsettling.