Enis Maci: Eiscafé Europa

Hela Press, 2026, softcover, 208 pages, 11 x 17 cm

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.