Annika Brockschmidt & Anja Rützel - Jane Austen and Her Men

Jane Austen's novels are about far more than romance. Love in her work is always entangled with power, money, and social expectation. With sharp wit and quiet irony, Austen exposed patriarchal structures and male self-assurance for what they were.

Annika Brockschmidt and Anja Rützel discuss the remarkable relevance of a writer whose take on love and gender roles has lost none of its edge.

Annika Brockschmidt is a historian, journalist, and SPIEGEL bestselling author. As senior correspondent for the US magazine Religion Dispatches, she covers American politics, feminism, and popular culture.

Anja Rützel is an author, journalist, and podcaster. She writes for Spiegel, among others, has published five books, and since 2023 has curated the Trash-TV salon Only Fans at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.