Enis Maci
Eiscafé Europa
Forthcoming: November 2025 (English Edition)
When did Europe's ghosts return? And how can we dispel them? In Eiscafé Europa, Enis Maci weaves together memory, politics, literature, and history, creating a tapestry of a threadbare continent. She retraces a youth spent among the ruins of the coal age, and turns to gender traitors and enemies of the state––Joan of Arc and Sophie Scholl, Albania’s long-gone sworn virgins and the Jewish nun Edith Stein. Maci questions mother tongue and origin, and dissects the Identitarian Movement’s fascist lineage, media strategies and make-up techniques. Described as ‘razor-sharp, wonderfully meandering, incredibly entertaining and unsettling at the same time’, (Spiegel Online), Eiscafé Europa is a work of poetic precision.
Enis Maci (b. 1993, Gelsenkirchen) is the author of the essays Eiscafé Europa and Karl May, the novel Pando, and a number of plays, including WUNDER. Her work has been staged, among others, at Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Vienna, and Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
She has received numerous awards, most recently the Max Frisch Prize for Emerging Writers. She edited the interdisciplinary volumes A Fascinating Plan and Filamentous Magic Carpets. Currently, she is completing a PhD at the University of Zurich on AI authorship.