Money is No Object

Her family was always short of money. As a child, she often wondered why some people were able to squander hundreds of euros on handbags, shoes and steak, while for others, a hundred euros was a small fortune. In the meantime, she herself has become one of the wasteful ones, spending 60 euros on a ski pass, 590,000 euros on a mediocre apartment or 748 euros on a wedding dress. But she still converts every sum into welfare payments.

Anna Mayr talks openly about how she has climbed up the social ladder. But the more arbitrary the cost of something is, the more she longs for an alternative – a way to stop feeling torn.


“That is the great strength of this book, the willingness of its author to address even difficult subjects… I have never seen many of these topics, from splitting up with one’s spouse to housing market woes, addressed better than they are here by Anna Mayr. Which doesn't mean she can't also be funny and self-deprecating, a combination that makes 'Money Is No Object” a page-turner.”
Eva Biringer, Welt online

“Mayr has found an original narrative perspective for her topic, which she describes with great humor and irony…Mayr can write stunningly well. Many readers are likely to catch sight of their own contradictory relationships with money and consumption.”
Claas Christophersen, NDR Kultur

“A humorous and simultaneously thoughtful exploration of our relationship with money….Particularly as a liberal, one feels caught in the tension between consumer desires and embarrassment.”
Marlen Hobrack, Der Freitag

“Anna Mayr uses her own experience to show how the world is set up wrong…She brings our shared dilemma to a head, and by the end of her self-critical expose, her unease has spread to us and our own relationships with money.”
Thomas Hummitzsch, tip Berlin