As June has arrived, both in Berlin and in Istanbul, the public life is slowly returning. Juliane Schindler, fiction editor of S. Fischer Verlag joined conversation on the effects of COVID-19, answering my updated questions.
Generations later, when a young person asks how you survived coronavirus, how might you respond? VERİRDİN?
This thing called “living in the moment” which everyone was talking about and I was never interested in was suddenly something I needed to accept my mood swings. For the first few weeks we did not know what to do with our plans and dreams.
The idea of living one day at a time gave me space to be at ease. I knew that I would deal with tomorrow when tomorrow is today.
ANY BOOK TRENDS FOR THE "NEW NORMAL"?
Existential literature is still existential and our deeper interests and hopes are the same as before the pandemic. But I guess we already think differently (or let’s say more intensely) about work, about inequality, about mobility.
A PROJECT YOU ENJOYED DURING PANDEMIC?
We enjoyed a concert in our backyard. We sat in our windows and on our balconies, on the roof and in the grass (at a safe distance, of course). The children played under the trees and we listened to the music (some danced, some sang) from musicians who were happy to have a physically present audience once again.
