Juli Zeh: Sylt is a symbol - Rügen too. Sylt stands for “no kind of escapism” 20 years ago, Zeh spent a few months on Sylt as an island writer.
“The upper ten thousand are living out their longing for the good old days when they were allowed to play an almost aristocratic upper class in this profane, staid West Germany’” says Zeh. The author particularly enjoys spending time on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, which belongs to Spain.