Saša Stanišić
And I am a writer, writer of fictions.
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He studied German philology (Germanistik), philosophy and history of art in Bonn, Munich and Vienna and was awarded a scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk. He did his postgraduate studies on Robert Musil and received his PhD.
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After working as a furrier, Timm studied Philosophy and German in Munich and Paris, achieving a PhD in German literature in 1971 with his thesis: The Problem of Absurdity in the Works of Albert Camus. During his studies, Timm was engaged in leftist activities of the 1960s. He became a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was associated with Benno Ohnesorg. From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the German Communist Party. Three times Timm has been called as a -
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He published his first novel, In Plüschgewittern (Storm of Plush), in 2002. This was followed by a collection of short stories, Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels (This Side of the Van Allen Belt, 2007), which received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Audience Award.
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J. Albert Mann
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@kriegundfreitag heißt eigentlich Tobias Vogel und veröffentlicht seit 2017 in verschiedenen sozialen Netzwerken seine mittlerweile berühmten humorvollen und poetischen Strichmenschen-Zeichnungen. Der Name „Krieg und Freitag" entstand durch die Autokorrektur seines Handys, das „Freitag" statt „Frieden" schrieb.
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Größere Bekanntheit erlangte er mit seiner Strichmännchenkette und der damit verbundenen Spendenaktion, die er 2018 anlässlich der Ausschreitungen in Chemnitz zeichnete. 2019 gewann er den Grimme Online Award in der Kategorie „Kultur und Unterhaltung", 2020 den Max-und-Moritz-Publikumspreis. -
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Daniel Kehlmann
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In 1987, he received the Baden-Württembergischen Autorenpreis für das deutschsprachige Jugendtheater for his play Nazim schiebt ab. In 1992, he received the German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder. He died, aged 48, in Berlin, after a long fight against pancreatic cancer. -
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LE biografie mi imbarazzano. Cioè, se sei Napoleone a trent’anni la puoi scrivere una biografia, perché no… se sei Gesù a trentatré anni puoi raccontarne di miracoli fatti… ma se sei Alessandro Barbaglia - e sfido chiunque ad essere Alessandro Barbaglia, è l’unica sfida che mi sento di vincere - che puoi aver fatto a 38 anni? (Santo cielo! Trentotto! Non ne ho mai avuti così tanti!) Comunque, eccola:
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Alessandro Barbaglia nasce. Il che: gli cambia la vita.
Lo fa il 30 agosto 1980. Lo aspettavano il 21. Il 26 erano tutti pronti, lui ha deciso di fare 30. Far subito 31 gli sembrava di cattivo gusto.
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Axel Honneth
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Honneth's work focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially relations of power, recognition, and respect. One of his core arguments is for the priority of intersubjective relationships of recognition in understanding social relations. This includes non- and mis-recognition as a basis of social and interpersonal conflict. For instance, grievances regarding the distribution of goods in society are ultimately struggles for recognition. -
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Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, and Show of Hands, all four books being translated into fourteen languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001, and Via Satellite, which he adapted into a feature film and directed, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Also a filmmaker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films, most recently Death Of A Superhero (2011) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Anthony divides his time between London and Los Angeles.
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Andreas Steinhöfel
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Steinhöfel was awarded the Erich Kästner Prize in 2009, after Peter Rühmkorf, Loriot, Robert Gernhardt, and Tomi Ungerer. In the same year, he was also awarded several literary prizes for his work "Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten", including the German Youth Literature Prize, the Catholic Children's and Youth Literature Prize as -
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Marion Poschmann
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Isabel Bogdan
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Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.
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Ruth Klüger
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Christian Kracht
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Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh is a German novelist.
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Her first book was Adler und Engel (in English: Eagles and Angels), which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel.
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Katharina Hagena
Mit 19 Jahren begann Hagena ihr Studium der Anglistik und Germanistik in Marburg, Freiburg und London, welches sie 1992 beendete. Zwei Jahre später verbrachte sie einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der Zürcher James-Joyce-Stiftung, das Stipendium erhielt sie von der Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung. 1995 promovierte Katharina Hagena über James Joyce´ Ulysses, danach trat sie ein zweijähriges DAAD-Lektorat am Trinity College in Dublin an. Im Zeitraum von 1998–2002 lehrte sie an den Universitäten in Hamburg und Lüneburg. Gegenwärtig lebt Katharina Hagena als freie Schriftstellerin mit ihrer Familie in Hamburg.
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Isabel Bogdan
Isabel Bogdan studierte Anglistik und Japanologie in Heidelberg und Tokio. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg-Borgfelde. 2006 erhielt sie den Hamburger Förderpreis für literarische Übersetzung, 2011 den Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur. 2013 war sie für einen Monat Artist in Residence an der Universität Nanjing.
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Daniel Glattauer
Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.
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Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).
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Alina Bronsky
Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nominated for one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
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Lucy Fricke
Lucy Tanja Fricke was born in 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and assistant director, known for In July (2000), Highway Society (2000) and Töchter (2021).
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Davide Morosinotto
Davide Morosinotto è nato nel 1980 in provincia di Padova. Vive a Bologna, dopo una parentesi romana di un paio d’anni. Il suo mestiere è quello di traduttore di software e i suoi hobby sono le moto, i libri e i videogame. Da qualche anno si è dedicato alla scrittura di libri per ragazzi ottenendo subito importanti risultati come il premio "Mondadori Junior Award".
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Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.
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Kristine Bilkau
Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
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Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.
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Takis Würger
Takis Würger, geboren 1985, ist Redakteur beim Nachrichtenmagazin »Der Spiegel«. Im Alter von 28 Jahren ging er nach England, um an der Universität von Cambridge Ideengeschichte zu studieren. Dort boxte er als Schwergewicht für den Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club und wurde Mitglied in verschiedenen studentischen Klubs.
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Tijan Sila
Tijan Sila was born in Sarajevo (1981) in the former Yugoslavia , where he spent his childhood. During the siege of the city in the Bosnian War, he fled with his family and came to Germany in 1994. He grew up in Landau in der Pfalz . As a teenager, he played guitar in the punk band Atlas Lanze.
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Sila studied German and English at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg . His autobiographical debut novel Tierchen unlimited was published in 2017.
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Toxische Pommes
Toxische Pommes heißt im wahren Leben Irina und arbeitet als Juristin in Wien. Sie hat Hunderttausende Follower auf TikTok und Instagram und spielt ihr Kabarettprogramm "Ketchup, Mayo & Ajvar - Die sieben Todsünden des Ausländers" vor ausverkauften Häusern in Österreich und Deutschland.
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Stefanie Stahl
Stefanie Stahl ist es gelungen, sich im Dschungel der psychologischen Ratgeber Literatur einen Namen zu machen. Sie begeistert durch ihren unterhaltsamen und verständlichen Stil und die vielen Aha-Erlebnisse, die sie ihren Lesern und Leserinnen vermittelt. Ihr Buch "Jein! Bindungsängste erkennen und bewältigen" wird nicht nur von Laien mit Begeisterung aufgenommen, sondern gilt auch in Fachkreisen als Standardwerk.
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Stefanie Stahl, Jahrgang 63, ist in Hamburg geboren und aufgewachsen und hat an der Universität Trier Psychologie studiert. Sie arbeitet als Psychotherapeutin, psychologische Sachverständige und Buchautorin in freier Praxis in Trier. Zudem hält sie im deutschsprachigen Raum Seminare zum Thema Bindungsangst. Weitere Informationen f -
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Lizette de Koning
Lizette de Koning (Den Haag, 1975) verhuisde al op jonge leeftijd naar Drenthe. Daar woonde ze vlak bij het bos – geweldig om in te spelen, vertelt ze. Een paar jaar later vertrok het gezin naar Rijswijk. Daar waren meer stoeptegels dan bomen. Maar dat vond Lizette niet zo erg, want inmiddels had ze leren lezen! Ze las vrijwel alle kinderboeken uit de bibliotheek, behalve die over enge monsters en draken, daar hield ze niet zo van. Ze schreef ook zelf verhaaltjes, over dieren. Daar hield ze namelijk wel van.
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Lizette wilde dierenarts en schrijver worden. Dat eerste is niet gelukt, het tweede gelukkig wel. Haar dochters Jet en Maartje vormen een prima inspiratiebron, die brengen haar vaak op ideeën. Lizette schrijft vooral voor jonge kinderen -
Susie Orbach
Dr. Susie Orbach - the therapist who treated Diana, Princess of Wales, for her eating disorders; the founder of the Women's Therapy Center of London; a former columnist for The Guardian; a visiting professor at the London School of Economics; and the author of 1978 best-seller Fat is a Feminist Issue - is, aside from Sigmund Freud, probably the most famous psychotherapist to have ever set up couch in Britain.
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Selim Özdogan
Selim Özdoğan (1971 in Köln-Mülheim geboren) ist ein türkischstämmiger deutscher Schriftsteller.
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Nastassja Martin
Nastassja Martin is a French author and anthropologist who has studied the Gwich-in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Along with In the Eye of the Wild, she has written Les Âmes sauvages: Face à l’Occident, la résistance d’un peuple d’Alaska, for which she received the Prix Louis Castex of the French Academy.
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Kirsten Boie
Kirsten Boie was born in Hamburg in 1950. She studied German and English literature and wrote a doctoral thesis on a topic in the field of literary research. She worked as a secondary school teacher in Hamburg from 1978 until 1983. When she adopted a child she had to stop teaching and began to write. Her first book "Paule ist ein Glücksgriff" (1985) was very well received and won several awards.
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Since then she has published more than 60 books for children and teens that have been translated into many languages. Special mention must be made of her novels for young adults that critically examine social issues and display literary innovation. In addition to the many awards she has won, her complete works have been nominated for the Hans Christi -
Leif Randt
Leif Randt (* 1983 in Frankfurt am Main) ist ein deutscher Autor. Er lebt in Maintal-Ost und Berlin.
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Randt studierte Kreatives Schreiben und Kulturjournalismus an der Universität Hildesheim. 2006 war er Finalist beim 14. open mike der Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2007 mit dem „Vli-Mintstroem-Projekt“ beim Plopp!-Hörspiel-Award. Er schrieb das Drehbuch „Innocence“ für eine Razor-Film-Produktion und trat 2008 beim PROSANOVA-Festival mit einer Performance auf. 2009 gewann er den Jurypreis des KulturSPIEGEL-Wettbewerbs,[1] im gleichen Jahr erschien sein Roman „Leuchtspielhaus“ im Berlin Verlag. Im Jahr 2010 gewann Randt den 1. Preis des MDR-Literaturpreises und erhielt den Nicolas-Born-Debütpreis der Niedersächsischen Literaturkommission. In der P -
Clemens Meyer
Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle an der Saale. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he became a published novelist.
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Meyer won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006,[2] in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2006.
His second book, Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), was translated by Katy Derbyshire and published by independent London publisher And Other Stories in 2011.[3] It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize -
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Johannes Maria Köhlmeier ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Musiker und Moderator.
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Er lebt als freier Schriftsteller in Hohenems und Wien. -
Sven Regener
Sven Regener is a German musician and writer living in Berlin. In 1982 he recorded his first LP with the band Zatopek and in 1984 he joined Neue Liebe. In 1985 he founded the Berlin band Element of Crime together with Jakob Friderichs. He writes almost all their lyrics as well as playing trumpet.
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In 2001 he published his first novel, Berlin Blues (original title Herr Lehmann), which achieved sales of around one million copies. The book takes place in autumn 1989 in Berlin. In 2004, Regener was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis for the screenplay to the film of the same name (best screenplay that has been turned into a film).
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Tobias Rüther
Tobias Rüther, geboren 1973, studierte Geschichte und Deutsche Literatur in Berlin und St. Louis, absolvierte die Henri-Nannen-Schule und arbeitete unter anderem als Textchef beim Kunstmagazin «Monopol». Seit 2010 gehört er dem Feuilleton der «Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung» an, seit 2020 ist er verantwortlich für das Literaturressort. 2008 erschien sein Buch «Helden» über David Bowie, 2013 «Männerfreundschaften».
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Florian Illies
Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.
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Author Florian Illies has worked as culture editor for major German newspapers and magazines, and is a co-founder of "Monopol" a magazine for art, literature and lifestyle. -
Pia Lamberty
Pia Lamberty is a German social psychologist who conducts research on conspiracy ideologies. She has been a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Legal Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since November 2016.
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Sabatina James
Sabatina James is an Austrian-Pakistani author, humanitarian, and founder of Friends of the Passion, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting persecuted Christians in Pakistan and Nigeria. A convert from Islam to Catholicism, she has devoted her life to freeing Christian slaves, protecting orphans, and rescuing women and girls from forced marriage and honor-based violence. Her international bestselling books, including the acclaimed Sharia in Germany, confront oppression with unflinching truth and compassion, earning her the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize for fearless journalism and the Culture Prize of the International Paulus Society. Named Austria's "Woman of the Year" at the 2014 Look! in Vienna, Sabatina continues to inspire through her courage, b
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Stefan Schulz
Stefan Schulz ist ein deutscher Soziologe, Blogger, Journalist, Podcaster und Publizist.
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Lena Hach
Lena Hach ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Nach dem Abitur besuchte sie erst eine Schule für Clowns und studierte dann Germanistik, Anglistik und Kreatives Schreiben in Frankfurt am Main und Berlin. Nebenbei begann sie, als Autorin und Journalistin zu arbeiten und schrieb unter anderem für zitty und Der Tagesspiegel.
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Daniel Schreiber
Daniel Schreiber, geboren 1977, ist als Kunstkritiker für verschiedene internationale Zeitungen und Magazine tätig. Er ist Autor der Susan-Sontag-Biografie 'Geist und Glamour' (2007) sowie der hochgelobten Essays Nüchtern (2014), Zuhause (2017) und des Bestsellers Allein (2021). Er lebt in Berlin.
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Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny, (born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
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His best known work is "The Discovery of Slowness" (1987; originally published in 1983 as "Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit"), a fictionalized meditation on the life and lessons of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. A pre-publication portion of the novel titled "Kopenhagen 1801" (which would become the fifth chapter) had earned Nadolny the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1980. -
Paula Irmschler
Paula Irmschler, 1989 in Dresden geboren, zog 2010 für ihr Studium nach Chemnitz. Nach fünf mehr oder weniger erfolgreichen Jahren ging sie nach Köln, arbeitete dort als Garderobiere und schrieb eine Kolumne für "Intro". Seitdem veröffentlichte sie Texte in „Jungle World“, "Missy Magazine“, laut.de, „Musikexpress“, „Jolie" und hat seit 2017 eine Kolumne bei "Neues Deutschland“, in der sie meist über feministische Themen schreibt. Im Herbst 2018 wurde sie bei "TITANIC" als Redakteurin eingestellt und konnte ihren Garderobenjob endlich an den Bügel hängen.
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Laura Harvey
Laura Harvey is an editor, writer, bibliophile, horsewoman, historian, teacher, debate coach, nerd, DIY junkie, and occasional rescuer of kittens. She holds a BA, MA, and is ABD, making her an exceptional asset in Trivial Pursuit. She loves reading so much that all of her handbags share one crucial ability: fitting a standard paperback or Kindle. She lives in northern California with a menagerie of beasts (dogs, cats, horses, and family members).
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Julia von Lucadou
Julia von Lucadou wurde 1982 in Heidelberg geboren und ist promovierte Filmwissenschaftlerin. Sie arbeitete als Regieassistentin, Redakteurin beim Fernsehen und als Simulationspatientin; sie lebt in Biel, New York und Köln. "Die Hochhauspringerin" ist ihr erster Roman.
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Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer and essayist. His work has received various awards, including the European Book Prize and the prestigious German Book Prize.
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Mirjam Pressler
German writer Mirjam Pressler is the author of several novels that have won awards in her native Germany and also received high praise from critics after being translated into English. In Malka and Halinka Pressler focuses on young Jewish protagonists who have been forced by fate to endure the Holocaust, while in Shylock's Daughter she returns readers to fifteenth-century Italy as she attempts to answer haunting questions surrounding the motivations of characters in a popular play by William Shakespeare. While receiving notice for her novels, Pressler is most well known for her work revising the diaries of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, and she is considered an expert on Franks's life and writings. In addition to translating Frank's
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Irena Brežná
Irena Brežná, born in 1950 in Bratislava. In 1968, she emigrated to Switzerland with her parents. Since graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Basel University (lic. phil. in Slavonic studies, philosophy and psychology) in 1975, she has worked as a teacher of Russian, a translator and interpreter of Slavonic languages and for 10 years as a psychologist at psychology research institutes in Munich and Basel. More recently, she has begun to work increasingly as an independent journalist and author.
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She continues to be actively involved in a variety of areas on a voluntary basis. For 12 years during the 1970s and 1980s she campaigned for the release of Soviet political prisoners in her role as a coordinator for the Swiss chapter of Amnesty inte -
Wolfgang Bauer
Wolfgang Bauer, geboren 1970, arbeitet für die Wochenzeitung DIE ZEIT. Für seine Reportagen wurde er u. a. mit dem Katholischen Medienpreis und dem Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre ausgezeichnet.
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Lutz Seiler
Lutz Seiler grew up in the Langenberg district of Gera, Thuringia (former East Germany). After training as a skilled building construction worker, he worked as a bricklayer and carpenter. During his national service in the National People’s Army (NVA) of the DDR, he started to take an interest in literature and wrote his first poems.
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In the summer of 1989 Seiler worked as a seasonal employee on the island of Hiddensee, a popular former East German holiday resort located west of the island of Rügen off the north-eastern coast of Germany, an experience that later formed the basis of his first novel published in 2014, Kruso.
Seiler read German Studies at the universities of Halle (Saale) and Berlin up to 1990.
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Judith Holofernes
Judith Holfelder-Roy known by her stage name Judith Holofernes, is a German singer, guitarist, songwriter and author.
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She was the lead singer of Wir sind Helden, the German pop rock band that released the song "Guten Tag" in 2002. The band received critical acclaim owing in part to Holofernes' lyrics, which are characterized by their playful use of words and use of social criticism.
After recording four albums that were chart successes in the German-speaking world, Wir sind Helden went on indefinite hiatus in 2012. Since then, Holofernes has recorded two solo albums (Ein leichtes Schwert, 2014; Ich bin das Chaos, 2017) and has also had a book of poems published (Du bellst vor dem falschen Baum, 2015). -
Inger-Maria Mahlke
Inger-Maria Mahlke ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Mahlke wuchs in Lübeck auf. Ihre Schulferien verbrachte sie regelmäßig bei Verwandten auf Teneriffa. Sie studierte Rechtswissenschaft an der FU Berlin, wo sie am Lehrstuhl für Kriminologie arbeitete.
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2018 wurde ihr Roman Archipel mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis-Hauptpreis als Roman des Jahres ausgezeichnet. -
Rafael Yglesias
Rafael Yglesias (b. 1954) is a master American storyteller whose career began with the publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After, at seventeen. Through four decades Yglesias has produced numerous highly acclaimed novels, including the New York Times bestseller Fearless, which was adapted into the film starring Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez. He lives on New York City’s Upper East Side.
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Iris Marion Young
Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and feminist focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there.
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Rocko Schamoni
Rocko Schamoni, real name is Tobias Albrecht, is a German entertainer, author, musician, club proprietor and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun.
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