Johanna adorjan biography

A journalist living in Berlin, where she is employed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Adorján uses her investigative skills to explore.

JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born in 1971 in Stockholm, studied theatre and opera directing..

Johanna Adorján: 'An Exclusive Love'

Not another family memoir written by a journalist, actor or celebrity. Another irreverent, navel-gazing biography, part of the flood of first-person tales of family life that include elegiac glorifications of personal neuroses.

Thankfully, when you open Johanna Adorján's memoir, such concerns disappear after only a few lines:

"On 13 October 1991 my grandparents killed themselves.

It was a Sunday.
JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born in 1971 in Stockholm, has worked as an editor and writer for various newspapers and magazines.

JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born in 1971 in Stockholm, has worked as an editor and writer for various newspapers and magazines.
Johanna Adorján (born in Stockholm in 1971) worked from 2001 to June 2016 among the editorial staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born in 1971 in Stockholm, studied theatre and opera directing.
In this tender meditation on love and loss Johanna Adorján asks why her grandparents killed themselves in a suicide pact.
Johanna Adorján, born in 1971 in Stockholm, studied theatre and opera directing.
Not really the ideal day of the week for suicide. On Sundays family members call each other, friends drop in to go walking their dogs with you. I'd have thought a Monday, for instance, much more suitable … I imagine that my grandmother was the first to wake that morning; I imagine her waking up, and her first thought is that this is the last morning she will ever wake up.

She will never wake up again, and she will only go to sleep once more."

'An Exclusive Love' by Johanna Adorján

A journalistic investigation

Adorján's sober, almo