While parents are busy working, ideologues are targeting their children online with misogynistic propaganda. Die Zeit’s Caroline Rosales always thought it could never happen to her.
Author: Caroline Rosales
Caroline Rosales, born in Bonn in 1982, studied Chinese Regional Studies and Classical Archaeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During her studies, she lived in Beijing for a year, where she studied Modern and Classical Chinese. She is the author of several non-fiction books. “Sexually Available” and ‘Single Mom’ were published in 2019, followed by her first novel ‘Das Leben keiner Frau’ in 2021 and her children’s book ‘Allerbeste Schwestern’ in 2021. From March 2021 to February 2023, she was an editor at Die Zeit in the Family section. In March 2024, her first television series, a film adaptation of the book “Sexually Available”, was broadcast, and her novel “Die Ungelebten” was published in the same month. She lives in Berlin with her four children.
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