Clara Drechsler

Clara Drechsler (born June 1961) is a Cologne author and translator who helped shape German pop journalism in the 1980s.

Drechsler wrote mainly for the music magazine Spex, which she co-founded in 1980, and for Miss Vogue.

Her most important literary innovation was the invention of a style characterized by numerous apparent trivialities and subjectivities, an innovation of the category "interview", which she transformed into a kind of investigative journalism through radical accuracy.

In the early 1990s, she left Spex and worked for Haffmans Verlag.

Among others, she translated works by Billy Childish, Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh and Nick Hornby into German.