INTERVIEW: Tassilo S. Schweiger
Can you present yourself: My name is Tassilo Sebastian Schweiger. I was born in Munich, Germany, but grew up in the city of Karlsruhe, a mid-size town near the French border. After finishing school, I began studying pedagogy at the Karlsruhe College of Education (PH Karlsruhe), although I did not complete the program. After that I completed a vocational training as a business computing expert and began working as a programmer. However, I didn’t make much progress in that field. After several unsuccessful job applications, I decided to pursue a new academic direction and enrolled in “Book Science” at LMU Munich. I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in 2020 and completed my Master of Arts in “Book and Media Research” in 2022. Although I don’t fit the stereotypical image of a “Book Science” scholar—most of them are women in their mid-twenties with a passion for reading and fantasy literature—I am, nevertheless, certainly what you call a bibliophile. My interests, however, lie elsewhere: I
