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The Story of a Daughter from a Motley Home

  • An enchanting memoir that is almost bursting at the seams with adventures and extreme experiences

“Orphan of divorce, the child of little people, British, half-Serbian, leftist, feminist, cabaret singer, punk singer, academic, foreign correspondent, childless, married twice, adventurer, war reporter, editor-in-chief.” That’s Sonia Mikich in her own words.

In this book she tells stories from her work as a journalist which took her to Chechnya or Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia, and the United States. But she also recounts her turbulent childhood between England, Yugoslavia, and Germany; her rebellious years of transformation, between pop and politics, in the counterculture of the 1970s. She portrays people from all over the world who have become her friends, and even her life partners.

A loner who observes the world from the sidelines: smiling, amazed, and shrugging her shoulders because people are interesting and fallible – just like her.

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 10.03.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-00243-0
  • 304 Pages
  • Author: Sonia Mikich
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Sonia Mikich

Sonia Mikich , geboren 1951 in Oxford, arbeitete als Journalistin, Moderatorin und Chefredakteurin beim WDR. Ab 1992 ARD-Korrespondentin in Moskau, ab 1996 Studioleiterin. 1998 bis 2002 Studioleiterin der ARD in Paris. Sonia Mikich erhielt für ihre Arbeit zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, u.a. den Deutschen Kritikerpreis (2001), den Telestar (1996) sowie das Bundesverdienstkreuz (1998). Buchveröffentlichungen u.a.: »Planet Moskau«, Köln, 1998 und »Warum uns der Medizinbetrieb krank macht«, München, 2014.