Carmen Stephan and Sandra O'Connell

On 18 May 2015, German author and journalist Carmen Stephan joined Germany@Home reading from her novel Mal Aria.

Born in Bavaria in 1974, Carmen Stephan worked as freelance journalist for SZ-Magazin and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung for a long time and also worked as head of the cultural department at German language news website Spiegel Online. Besides having lived and worked in Madrid, Hamburg and Munich, she also spent some time in Dublin, where she feels at home. Brasília Stories, her very first publication as a literary author, was published after her stay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2005. In 2012, her debut novel Mal Aria followed. Among other awards, it received the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung Literature Prize and the Buddenbrockhaus Debut.

Dr Sandra O’Connell moderated this Germany@Home event. She is the editor of Architecture Ireland, since 2002. Sandra writes regularly on architecture, contributes to conferences and has recently edited the RIAI’s new Annual Review, Irish Architecture, Vol. 1.