Alena Schröder

Alena Schröder is a German journalist and novelist, born in 1979 and based in Berlin. She studied history, political science and Latin American studies in Berlin and San Diego, trained at the Henri Nannen journalism school, and spent several years on the staff of Brigitte before going freelance; she writes for Brigitte, SZ-Magazin and Die Zeit.

Her first novel, "Junge Frau, am Fenster stehend, Abendlicht, blaues Kleid" (2021), a four-generation family story running from the 1920s to the present, became a Spiegel bestseller, and she returned to the same family in "Bei euch ist es immer so unheimlich still".