Ewald Arenz

Arenz completed his Abitur (high school graduation) at the Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium in Fürth and initially studied law at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Arenz hosts the show Das Feiertagsfeuilleton (The Holiday Arts Section) on Bayern 2 (a German public radio station in Bavaria) and from 2009 to 2012, he led the semester-long writing workshop at the city theater in Fürth.

From 2007 to 2010, he wrote a weekly literary column titled Meine kleine Welt (My Little World) for the Nürnberger Nachrichten (a local daily in the Nuremberg-Erlangen-Fürth area).

The tension between personal freedom and responsibility towards others is explored in Ein Lied über der Stadt within the context of early 20th-century female aviation history.

These works, as well as many short stories, adopt a more relaxed style, with witty dialogue and unexpected twists dominating the narrative, sometimes at the expense of plot development.

Der große Sommer (One Grand Summer) immediately made the Spiegel bestseller list after its release in March 2021, and in January 2023, with the novel Die Liebe an miesen Tagen (Love on Bad Days), Arenz reached number one for the first time.