Ex@WOMAN is an autofictional novel, a literary self-questioning, a radically personal attempt to break free from attributions. It is a tuning into a new self and a swinging away from the old. It is a text about the disappearance of old forms and the flight into new galaxies. Twenty-five years after her bestseller Ruf!Mich!An! (CallMe!Now!), Else Buschheuer has written EX@WOMAN, a contemporary novel with the character of an anarchist manifesto.
Genders are shaken up, a world conference is held, fish grow arms and legs. Lesbians get into gayities, mothers and daughters find themselves in no man’s land, and a gay god with a blond popper lock plays “Komm nach Tirol Señorita” (Come to Tyrol, Señorita).
Else Buschheuer is a german novelist. For more than 30 years, they worked as a freelance journalist and reporter for newspapers and as a presenter for German radio and television programs. They wrote important essays on gender for Süddeutsche Magazin. They has written novels and several nonfiction books. Ruf!Mich!An! and “Masserberg” were bestsellers. “Masserberg” was made into a film for German television, and in 2019 Buschheuer won the journalist award for best essay with their text “Kriegerin“ (warrioress).
“Ex@WOMAN“ is their sixth novel and the first that is available in English and Spanish translation.
