As gloomy and pessimistic as Berg's new book is supposed to be, her lines in the column that appeared in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" had negative connotations. In connection with her experiences with mountain bikers, she writes of "disgust", "droll helmet wearers", "hormone-ridden young men" and "little bank sausages". Her most urgent wish when it comes to mountain bikers: "Get rid of them. All of them."

Sibylle Berg may be a respected and now award-winning writer, but her commentary on mountain bikers clearly demonstrates an intellectually limited, but above all embittered and hateful way of thinking.
 

Links

NZZ report, August 5, 2007: nzz.ch
Sibylle Berg's website: sibylleberg.com