Michael EbmeyerMichael Ebmeyer (Bonn, 1973) is a German writer, journalist and translator. He grew up in Bielefeld, studied in Tübingen and Barcelona and currently lives in Berlin. After completing his studies, he first worked as a research assistant at the Universty of Tübingen before he went freelance as a writer. In 2001 he made his debut with the short story book Henry Silber geht zu Ende. Since then he has written the novels Plüsch, Achter Achter, Der Neulingund Landungen, but also non-fiction books such as Gebrauchsanweisung für Katalonien (Instructions for Use of Catalonia, 2007). Since 2015 Michael Ebmeyer has published shorter essays at Freitext on ZEIT Online at irregular intervals. His main topics are laughter, the propaganda strategies of the so callednew right, the state of the German left, the Catalan independence movement and current political developments in Latin America, especially in Bolivia. Read More Read Less