Şeyda Kurt: Zeit der Monster

The place is a neighborhood. Time is the apocalypse. At least that's what more and more people believe, spurred on by a prophecy racing through the net. Meanwhile, young Sanya roams through the wild, broken neighborhood, where people stick together despite everything – until one day she meets a strange figure.
Between furious epic and colorful pop, between existential opera and warmest soap opera, Şeyda Kurt asks what opportunities lie in the disintegration of all orders. Sanya and her dazzling adopted family are deeply entangled in the history of their community, which spans borders and time. Can we live differently? Stirring, clever and changing everything, this event of a debut novel shouts: Yes.

Şeyda Kurt (*1992 Cologne-Kalk) is a writer, publicist, curator and presenter. She has worked for "Zeit Online" and "Deutschlandfunk Kultur", among others, as well as for podcasts such as the award-winning production "190220 – One Year After Hanau". In her books, essays and theatre texts, she deals with love, hate, power, origin, classism, racism and social inequalities. Her non-fiction books "Radical Tenderness. Why Love is Political" and "HATE. On the Power of a Resistant Feeling" became bestsellers; her debut novel "Zeit der Monster" was published by Hanser in 2026.