'Does the soul have a gender?' asks Nadia Brönimann in the subtitle of her debut work 'Die weisse Feder'. Now she presents a second book entitled 'Soul Dance – I Follow My Way' – and answers the question from the first book: 'No, the soul is sexless.' She, the 'converted', knows from her own bitter experience what she is talking about. But perhaps her soul has two sides: a glamorous, glittering, happy, life-affirming one – and a dark, fearful, abysmally sad and lonely one.
Nadia Brönimann became probably the most famous transsexual in Switzerland through her first book, in which the author and journalist Daniel J. Schüz describes her life in detail up to the dozen painful and sometimes failed sex change operations. Countless media appearances and a harrowing TV documentary moved the country.
'I'm a woman now and I should be happy.' With these words 'The White Feather' ends. But the reality today is completely different. The waves in the life of this woman with her almost unbelievable fate have not smoothed out, on the contrary. The hope for happiness has been shattered, the lifelong dream has burst. On one hand, Nadia experiences exclusion, anxiety, depression and grief, on the other hand, she catapults manic outbursts and narcissistic excesses to dizzying heights.
In the new book, she portrays her struggle for courage and joie de vivre with relentless openness. Not for the sake of the exhibition, but in the knowledge that many people – especially in today's performance and fun society – suffer something similar. The book 'Soul Dance' gives courage, encourages, and brings light into the lives of all those who do not dare to admit their loneliness to themselves and the environment.
In addition, 'Seelentanz' offers interviews with well-known experts on the subject and links Nadia Brönimann's life story in digressions with psychological and cultural-historical contexts.
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