Eiscafé Europa is a cartwheeling essay collection by Enis Maci on the culture, media, and politics of Europe. Comprehensive in its targets, the author mixes the personal and political to skewer and expose the media strategies and fascist lineage of the Identitarian Movement. Updated with an afterword from the author, it remains an essential text on the problems and contradictions of contemporary Europe.
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 (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.
