Kaltërina Latifi is new columnist for Das Magazin
Swiss literary scholar and essayist Kaltërina Latifi is to become a columnist for Das Magazin. Starting on Saturday, she will write about social and societal topics every two weeks, alternating with Nina Kunz.
Latifi wants to pay special attention to the perspective of people with an immigrant background, following up on her two well-received texts published in the magazine, which dealt with her growing up as a Kosovar in Switzerland, namely "How it feels to be a Kosovar" and "The Kosovar - loving wife, mother, domestic slave.
Kaltërina Latifi was born in Pristina in 1984 and emigrated with her parents to Switzerland in 1989 at the age of five, where she lived in Adelboden, Bern and Lausanne, among other places, until she moved to Germany in 2007 to study.
She studied German and Philosophy at the Université de Lausanne (Bachelor) and Editionswissenschaft und Textkritik at the University of Heidelberg, where she received her PhD in 2015 with a thesis on the German Romantic E.T.A. Hoffmann. Since 2016, she has been a Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Since 2019/20, Kaltërina Latifi is also a Habilitation candidate at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the aesthetics of the fragmentary in literature.
In 2019, she founded the biennial journal for European Romanticism Serapion at Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, and has since been responsible for it as its main editor. As an essayist, Kaltërina Latifi publishes, among others. in. Swiss month, The Political Opinion, Language in the Technical Age and The magazine. In the fall of 2021, her first literary work, entitled "Tungjatjeta," a collection of short stories, will be published by Löcker Verlag in Vienna.
