Elke Schmitter
Elke Schmitter (b. 1961) is a writer and, since 2001, a journalist in the culture section of Der Spiegel. After studying philosophy, she served as editor-in-chief of Berlin’s Tageszeitung from 1992 to 1994, also writing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit. Her best-known novel, Mrs. Satoris, has been translated into 17 languages.
Updated: 25 September 2009
The big issues have been given a wide berth in the campaign for Germany’s general elections on 27 September. It’s a shame the big parties are so afraid of unsettling the electorate, bemoans the novelist Elke Schmitter. After all, politics is also about trying to change the world we live in.