Christoph Ribbat's areas of interest include contemporary fiction and nonfiction, cultural history, and visual culture. He's the author of a history of waking up, forthcoming in February 2026, and a book about crying and sports (also scheduled for February 2026). In 2024 he published Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented (London/Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell, 2024). Earlier publications include a book on breathing, on Wilbert Olinde Jr., one of the first US basketball pros in Germany, the history of restaurants, and neon. He writes regularly for NZZ Geschichte and Pop: Kultur und Kritik.
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