Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
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KARSTEN DUSSE, Jahrgang 1973, Rechtsanwalt, Studium in Bonn, Lausanne und Los Angeles. Nach erfolgreicher Tätigkeit als Drehbuch- und Sachbuchautor wurde sein Debütroman Achtsam morden zum meistverkauften Taschenbuch des Jahres 2020.
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Seine Romane wurden bislang in 21 Sprachen übersetzt und stehen regelmäßig an der Spitze der Bestsellerlisten. Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Arbeit mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis, dem Deutschen Comedypreis und dem Deutschen Hörbuchpreis. Seine Hörbücher haben Gold- und Platin-Status erreicht. -
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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Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel was a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
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Bichsel was born in 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers. Shortly after he was born, the Bichsels moved to Olten, also in Switzerland. After finishing school, he became an elementary school teacher, a job he held until 1968. From 1974 to 1981 he was the personal advisor and speech writer of Willy Ritschard, a member of the Swiss Federal Council. Between 1972 and 1989 he made his mark as a "writer in residence" and a guest lecturer at American universities. Bichsel lived on the outskirts of Solothurn for several decades.
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Sabine Kuegler
uncommon childhood: from age 7 to age 17 she lived with her parents and two siblings in the jungle of West Papua, with the remote tribe of the Fayu.[1]
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Her parents were the first whites to live with the newly discovered tribe of about 400 people, who still hunted with bow and arrow, ate snakes, insects and worms, and practiced inter-tribal warfare and revenge killings. The Kueglers were there to study the tribe's language and to evangelize, under assignment of the Wycliffe Bible Translators.[2] Her mother, trained as a nurse, performed midwife duties with the tribe. At age 17, Sabine Kuegler left and attended a Swiss boarding school. She has been married and divorced twice and has four children, two from each husband. Her parents have return -
Meriel Schindler
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Teri Terry
Teri has lived in France, Canada, Australia and England at more addresses than she can count, acquiring three degrees, a selection of passports and a silly name along the way. Past careers have included scientist, lawyer, optometrist, and, in England, various jobs in schools, libraries and an audiobook charity. The footpaths and canal ways of the Buckinghamshire Chilterns where she now lives inspired much of the setting of Slated. She hates broccoli, likes cats, and has finally worked out what she wants to do when she grows up.
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Frank Schätzing
Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several novellas and satires. His first published novel was the historical Tod und Teufel in 1995, and in 2000 his thriller Lautlos.
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Heike Faller
Heike Faller grew up in a small village in the Black Forest always wanting to become a children’s book author. She became a staff writer at the Germany weekly Die Zeit, specializing in essays and feature stories. She has won journalism awards and written a bestseller on the financial crisis. With “Hundert” she finally made her dream come true and wrote an illustrated book for children and people of all ages.
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Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. After graduating, he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a magazine illustrator and posted frequently on the Internet forum Wir höflichen Paparazzi (We Polite Paparazzi). In 2001, Herrndorf joined the art and writing collective Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur, eventually contributing to their blog, Riesenmaschine (Giant Machine).
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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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Tom Hillenbrand
Tom Hillenbrand is a German writer. His critically acclaimed scifi thriller "Droneland" deals with mass surveillance.
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His award-winning Hologrammatica series is about artificial intelligence, holograms and climate change.
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Jean Améry
Jean Améry (October 31, 1912 – October 17, 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II.
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Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium.
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Markus Werner
Markus Werner (December 27, 1944 in Eschlikon, canton of Thurgau) was a German-speaking Swiss writer, the author of Zündels Abgang (Zündel’s Departure).
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Markus Werner was born in Eschlikon (canton of Thurgau). In 1948 the family moved to Thayngen (canton of Schaffhausen) where Werner finished school and passed the general qualification for university entrance in 1965. At the University of Zürich he studied German, Philosophy, and Psychology. In 1974 he completed a doctorate on Max Frisch, whose writing has an important influence on Werner. From 1975 to 1985, he worked as a main teacher, and from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant professor at the Kantonsschule (= preparatory high school) in Schaffhausen. He has dedicated himself exclusively to -
Jakob Arjouni
Jakob Arjouni (alias of Jakob Bothe) published his first novel Happy Birthday, Türke! (1985) at the age of 20.Later he wrote his first play Die Garagen. He became famous after publishing his criminal novel Kayankaya, which was then translated into 10 different languages.
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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. -
Rachel Aviv
Rachel Aviv joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2013. She has written for the magazine about a range of subjects including medical ethics, criminal justice, education, and homelessness. She was a finalist for the 2018 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for “The Takeover,” a story about elderly people being stripped of their legal rights, and she won the 2015 Scripps Howard Award for “Your Son Is Deceased,” a story on police shootings in Albuquerque. Her writing on mental health was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship, an Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and an American Psychoanalytic Association Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has taught courses in narrative medicine at Columbia Univers
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Nora Bossong
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.
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Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).
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Eva Menasse
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Mithu M. Sanyal
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Heinz Strunk
The musician, actor and writer Heinz Strunk (legal name Mathias Halfpape) was born in Hamburg in 1962. His memoir "Meat is my Veg" has sold half a million copies. It has since been adapted into a prize-winning radio play, an operetta at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and also a feature film. "The Golden Glove" topped the bestseller lists for months and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2016. In autumn 2016, he received the Wilhelm Raabe Prize. Strunk is a founding member of the cult comedian trio "Studio Braun" and had his own television show on VIVA.
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Helene Hegemann
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D.A. Mishani
D. A. Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.
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His first detective novel, "The missing file", was published in Hebrew in 2011. Translation rights for the novel, the first in a crime series featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, were sold to more than 10 territories. The American edition of "The missing file" will be published by HarperCollins on April 2013.
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן) was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch, won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for best debut and is being translated into five languages.
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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. -
Jan-Philipp Sendker
Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, and, longing to travel the world, became the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is his first novel, and since then, he has written 3 further novels, including a sequel to "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats", "A Well-Tempered Heart". In 2013, he received The indies Choice Honor Award in the category Adult Fiction for "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. He lives in Potsdam with his family and is currently working on the third installment in his China-trilogy.
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Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-Austrian author.
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His novel Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin. -
Matthew Johnstone
Matthew Johnstone is a passionate mental health and wellbeing advocate. He's an author, illustrator, photographer, public speaker and is also the creative director at the Black Dog Institute. He lives in Sydney Australia with his wife and two daughters.
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Paul Watzlawick
Was an Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he has commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California, until his death at the age of 85
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Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by Charlotte Collins.
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Lisa Sandlin
Lisa Sandlin was born in the Gulf Coast oil town of Beaumont, Texas, and lived there before and after a transfer sent her family to Naples, Italy, for three years. She graduated from Rice University in Houston and then lived many years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Once she had earned an M.F.A. in Writing at Vermont College, Sandlin packed a small car and headed for Nebraska in January. She taught at Wayne State College 1997-2009, with semester leaves to teach at The University of Texas and Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey, and at University of Nebraska Omaha 2009-2018. Her books are "The Famous Thing About Death" (Cinco Puntos Press, 1991); "Message to the Nurse of Dreams" (Cinco Puntos Press, 1997), winner of the Violet Crown Award fro
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish emigre. A renowned novelist and playwright who fled Europe during World War II and lived in Los Angeles from 1941 until his death.
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A fierce critic of the Nazi regime years before it assumed power precipitated his departure, after a brief internment in France, from Europe. He and his wife Marta obtained asylum in the United States in 1941 and remained there in exile until they died. -
Anthony McCarten
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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Thomas Thiemeyer
Thomas Thiemeyer (*1963) is a German illustrator and writer.
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He studied art and geology in Cologne. His first children's book was published in 1989 by the Ravensburger publishing house, where Thiemeyer already worked as graphic advisor. 2 years later he became freelance artist. As freelance artist, he illustrates plays, children's books, book envelopes and much more. Among others he has worked for Heyne, Arena, Fantasy Productions, Beltz & Gelberg, HarperCollins, Random House and Wizards of the Coast. In recent time he co-operated with the American director Darren Aronofsky. His work was distinguished several times with Kurd Laßwitz prize and the German Fantasy prize.
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Rolf Dobelli
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Mirinae Lee
Mirinae Lee was born and grew up in Seoul. Her debut novel, '8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster,' has been longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. '8 Lives' is inspired by Lee's great-aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea. Its translations continue to meet readers worldwide, including in the US, the UK, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Romania, South Korea, Spain, and Switzerland. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children.
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Deborah Feldman
Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her marriage was arranged at the age of 17, and her son was born two years later.
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At the age of 25 she published the New York Times Bestselling memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon and Schuster, 2012)
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Monika Helfer
Monika Helfer (1947), vormals Monika Helfer-Friedrich, ist eine österreichische Schriftstellerin.
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Thema ihrer Bücher sind oft schwierige Familienbeziehungen, wobei sie einen besonderen Fokus auf die Kinderperspektive legt. „Die Figuren in Monika Helfers Büchern haben Mut, Überlebenswillen und den gesunden Trotz eines Kindes, nämlich den Trotz, sich von gesellschaftlichen Wertvorstellungen und Kategorisierungen nicht beirren zu lassen“, so Dorothea Zanon in ihrer Laudatio anlässlich der Verleihung des Österreichischen Ehrenkreuzes für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse. -
Dana Spiotta
Scribner published Dana Spiotta’s first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001. The New York Times called it “the debut of a wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life, and an unerring ear for how people talk and try to cope today.” It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West.
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Her second novel, Eat the Document, was published in 2006 by Scribner. It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Michiko Kakutani wrote in her review in The New York Times that Eat The Document was “stunning” and described it as “a book that possesses the staccat -
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Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner (the pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) was a German journalist and author whose focus was the history of the German Reich (1871-1945). His books dealt with the origins and course of the First World War, the failure of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise and fall of Nazi Germany under Hitler.
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In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, hardly able to speak English but becoming rapidly proficient in the language. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family back in Germany would not be endangered by his writing.
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Anna Burns
Anna Burns (born 1962) is an Irish author. She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.
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Awards:
Winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
Shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize (No Bones)
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize (Milkman)
National Book Critics Circle Award 2019 Nominee (Milkman)
Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Nominee (Milkman)
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Florian Klenk
Florian Rudolf Klenk ist ein österreichischer Journalist, Autor und Jurist. Seit Anfang Juni 2012 ist er Chefredakteur und seit Dezember 2020 Mitgesellschafter der österreichischen Wochenzeitung Falter.
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Tanja Kinkel
Mit acht Jahren begann Tanja Kinkel, Geschichten und Gedichte zu schreiben. 1978 gewann sie einen Jugendliteraturpreis und 1979 schrieb sie ihren ersten Roman.
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Ab 1988 studierte sie Germanistik, Theater- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München. 1991 bekam Tanja Kinkel ein Stipendium an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in München; Ausbildung zum Drehbuchautor. 1992 folgte ein Förderpreis des Freistaates Bayern für junge Schriftsteller. 1995 hatte sie einen Förderaufenthalt des deutschen Innenministeriums in der "Casa Baldi" in Olevano Romano bei Rom und erhielt 1996 ein Stipendium in der Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
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Clemens J. Setz
Clemens J. Setz wurde 1982 in Graz geboren, wo er Mathematik sowie Germanistik studierte und heute als Übersetzer und freier Schriftsteller lebt. 2011 wurde er für seinen Erzählband Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes mit dem Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse ausgezeichnet. Sein Roman Indigo stand auf der Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises 2012 und wurde mit dem Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft 2013 ausgezeichnet. 2014 erschien sein erster Gedichtband Die Vogelstraußtrompete.
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Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.
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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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A stout pacifist and democrat, he was expelled from the national writers' guild during the Nazi era, with many of his books being burned in public. Today, he is widely regarded as one of Germany's most prolific and beloved children's book authors.
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Wolfram Eilenberger
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Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an internationally bestselling, award-winning writer and philosopher.
In 2018, he published Time of the Magicians (Zeit der Zauberer) in Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in countries such as Italy, and Spain. It has been translated into thirty languages.
In November 2018 it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards, both nationally and internationally. The book also received wide critical acclaim in the US and UK.
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Doris Knecht
Doris Knecht war stellvertretende Chefredakteurin des Wiener Stadtmagazins «Falter» und Kolumnistin des Schweizer «Tages-Anzeiger». Für den «Kurier» schreibt sie die tägliche Kolumne «Knecht», für den «Falter» wöchentlich eine Familienkolumne, in der Wiener «rhiz-bar» legt sie regelmäßig als Djane auf. «Gruber geht» (2011), ihr erster Roman, wurde ein Überraschungserfolg und stand auf der Longlist für den Deutschen Buchpreis. Doris Knecht lebt mit ihrer Familie in Wien und im Waldviertel.
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Uwe Wittstock
Uwe Wittstock (b. 1955) is a literary critic and writer, he was editor of "Focus", he has worked as literary editor for the FAZ, as editor at S. Fischer and as deputy head of feature pages and cultural correspondent for the "Welt".
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James Kestrel
Formerly a bar owner, a criminal defense investigator, and an English teacher, James Kestrel is now an attorney practicing throughout the Pacific. His writing has won advance praise from Stephen King, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, Meg Gardiner, James Fallows, Pico Iyer, and numerous other authors. A sailor and world traveler, Kestrel has lived in Taiwan, New Orleans, and a West Texas ghost town. He lives in Volcano, Hawaii.
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Craig Mod
Craig Mod is a writer, photographer, and walker living in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author the books "Things Become Other Things" and "Kissa by Kissa." He is also the author of the newsletters "Roden" and "Ridgeline" and has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and more.
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He has been a resident of Japan since 2000. He has walked between Tokyo and Kyoto (on the Tōkaidō and Nakasendō) three times. And has walked thousands of kilometers of the Kii Peninsula as well as other old roads across Japan. -
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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Sie hat verschiedene Lesereihen mitorganisiert, unter anderem Kaffee.Satz.Lesen mit Stevan Paul und Tirili/Tristesse mit Maximilian Buddenbohm. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied im PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Gründungsmitglied des PEN Berlin und im Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer (VdÜ). Sie ist Vorsitzende des Vereins zur Rettung des „anderthalb“.
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Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.
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Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989. -
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.
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Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After jobbing as an assembler, bookseller and assistant director, he studied philosophy. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer, becoming known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund (The Distant Lover). -
Martin Suter
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.
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Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Johannes Maria Köhlmeier ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Musiker und Moderator.
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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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Heinz Strunk
The musician, actor and writer Heinz Strunk (legal name Mathias Halfpape) was born in Hamburg in 1962. His memoir "Meat is my Veg" has sold half a million copies. It has since been adapted into a prize-winning radio play, an operetta at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and also a feature film. "The Golden Glove" topped the bestseller lists for months and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2016. In autumn 2016, he received the Wilhelm Raabe Prize. Strunk is a founding member of the cult comedian trio "Studio Braun" and had his own television show on VIVA.
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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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Stefanie Sargnagel
Stefanie Sargnagel, geb. 1986, studierte in der von Daniel Richter angeleiteten Klasse der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Malerei, verbrachte aber mehr Zeit bei ihrem Brotjob im Call-Center, denn: «Immer wenn mein Professor Daniel Richter auf Kunststudentenpartys auftaucht, verhalten sich plötzlich alle so, als würde Gott zu seinen Jüngern sprechen. Ich weiß nie, wie ich damit umgehen soll, weil ich ja Gott bin.» Seit 2016 ist sie freie Autorin – und verbringt seitdem mehr Zeit bei ihrem Steuerberater.
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן) was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch, won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for best debut and is being translated into five languages.
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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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Verena Keßler
1988 in Hamburg geboren, 2008-2009 Ausbildung zur Werbetexterin an der Texterschmiede Hamburg, 2012-2015 Studium deutsche Literatur und germanistische Linguistik an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2016 bis 2020 Studium literarisches Schreiben am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig.
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“Die Gespenster von Demmin” erschien im August 2020 bei Hanser Berlin, wurde u.a. für den aspekte-Literaturpreis nominiert und mit dem Kranichsteiner Jugendliteratur-Stipendium ausgezeichnet, außerdem ins Polnische, Griechische & Französische übersetzt. Taschenbuchausgabe bei dtv. Mini-Serie in Entwicklung bei Oma Inge Film.
“Eva” erschien im März 2023 bei Hanser Berlin und zeitgleich als Hörbuch bei DAV, das Taschenbuch erschien im September 2024 bei Kein & A -
Caroline Wahl
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.
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Annika Büsing
Annika Büsing ist als Arbeiterkind im Ruhrgebiet geboren und aufgewachsen, mit einer ausgeprägten Vorliebe für Punkrock und Bücher. Nach dem Abitur schloss sie zunächst eine Ausbildung in einem Verlag ab, entschied sich dann aber, Germanistik und Theologie auf Lehramt zu studieren. Nach dem Studium zog es sie Richtung Norden, zunächst nach Island zum Jobben und Schreiben, dann nach Hamburg zum Referendariat. Inzwischen lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Söhnen wieder in Bochum, wo sie an einem Gymnasium unterrichtet. Die Liebe zu Punkrock und Büchern ist geblieben. "Nordstadt" ist ihr erster Roman.
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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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Max Frisch
Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he vis
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Karl Schlögel
Karl Schlögel (born 7 March 1948 in Hawangen, Bavaria, Germany) is a noted German historian of Eastern Europe who specialises in modern Russia, the history of Stalinism, the Russian diaspora and dissident movements, Eastern European cultural history and theoretical problems of historical narration.
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Nelio Biedermann
Nelio Biedermann ist am Zürichsee aufgewachsen. Seine Familie stammt väterlicherseits aus ungarischem Adel, seine Großeltern flohen in den 1950er Jahren in die Schweiz. Biedermann studiert Germanistik und Filmwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich. Sein Roman «Lázár» wird in mehr als zwanzig Ländern erscheinen.
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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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Sven Stricker
Sven Stricker wurde 1970 in Tönning geboren. Er studierte Komparatistik, Anglistik und Neuere Geschichte und versuchte sich als Musiker und Nachwuchsjournalist. Heute ist er freier Autor und Hörspielregisseur und lebt in Potsdam.
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Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz (1926 - 2014) was a German author who wrote twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.
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Lenz was the son of a customs officer in Lyck (Elk), East Prussia. After his graduation exam in 1943, he was drafted into the navy. According to documents released in June 2007, he may have joined the Nazi party on the 12th of July 1943. Shortly before the end of World War II, he defected to Denmark, but became a prisoner of war in -
Stefanie Sargnagel
Stefanie Sargnagel, geb. 1986, studierte in der von Daniel Richter angeleiteten Klasse der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Malerei, verbrachte aber mehr Zeit bei ihrem Brotjob im Call-Center, denn: «Immer wenn mein Professor Daniel Richter auf Kunststudentenpartys auftaucht, verhalten sich plötzlich alle so, als würde Gott zu seinen Jüngern sprechen. Ich weiß nie, wie ich damit umgehen soll, weil ich ja Gott bin.» Seit 2016 ist sie freie Autorin – und verbringt seitdem mehr Zeit bei ihrem Steuerberater.
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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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Christian Schünemann
Christian Schünemann, geboren 1968 in Bremen, studierte Slawistik in Berlin und Sankt Petersburg, arbeitete in Moskau und Bosnien-Herzegowina und absolvierte die Evangelische Journalistenschule in Berlin. Beim Internationalen Wettbewerb junger Autoren, dem Open Mike 2002, wurde ein Auszug aus dem Roman ›Der Frisör‹ preisgekrönt. ›Daily Soap‹ ist der vierte Fall des Frisörs. Christian Schünemann lebt in Berlin.
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Amira Ben Saoud
Amira Ben Saoud studierte Klassische Philologie, Kunstgeschichte und Komparatistik in Wien. Sie war Chefredakteurin des Popkulturmagazins The Gap und Kulturredakteurin beim Standard. »Schweben« ist ihr erster Roman.
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Brigitte Reimann
Brigitte Reimann (1933 - 1973) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel, Franziska Linkerhand.
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Brigitte Reimann wrote her first amateur play at the age of fifteen. In 1950 she was awarded the first prize in an amateur drama comeptition by the Berlin theater Volksbühne. After graduating, Reimann worked as teacher, bookseller and reporter. After a miscarriage in 1954, she attempted suicide. In 1960, she started to work at the brown coal mine Schwarze Pumpe, where she and her second husband Siegfried Pitschmann headed a circle of writing workers. There, she writes the narrative Ankunft im Alltag, which is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism.
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Norman Ohler
Norman Ohler is a German author and screenwriter.
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Bernhard Aichner
Bernhard Aichner (geb. 1972) lebt als Schriftsteller und Fotograf in Innsbruck/Österreich. Aichner schreibt Romane, Hörspiele und Theaterstücke. Für seine Arbeit wurde er mit mehreren Literaturpreisen und Stipendien ausgezeichnet. Nach den Spannungsromanen Nur Blau (2006) und Schnee kommt (2009) erschienen bei Haymon die Max-Broll-Krimis Die Schöne und der Tod (2010), Für immer tot (2011) und Leichenspiele (2012). Totenfrau ist der erste Thriller, der bei btb erscheint. Für die Recherche dazu arbeitete Aichner ein halbes Jahr bei einem Bestattungsinstitut als Aushilfe.
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Selim Özdogan
Selim Özdoğan (1971 in Köln-Mülheim geboren) ist ein türkischstämmiger deutscher Schriftsteller.
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Ulli Lust
Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna, Austria. Her cartooning work has mainly comprised comics reportages; Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is her first graphic novel, and her first work to be translated into English. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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Charlotte Lucas
Charlotte Lucas ist das Pseudonym von Wiebke Lorenz. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Düsseldorf, studierte sie in Trier Germanistik, Anglistik und Medienwissenschaft und lebt heute in Hamburg. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester schreibt sie unter dem Pseudonym Anne Hertz Bestseller mit Millionenauflage. Auch ihre Psychothriller „Allerliebste Schwester“, „Alles muss versteckt sein“ und „Bald ruhest du auch“ sind bei Kritik und Publikum höchst erfolgreich. Mit „Dein perfektes Jahr“ begibt sie sich auf die Suche nach den Antworten auf die großen und kleinen Fragen des Lebens.
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Dizz Tate
Dizz Tate is a writer currently living in London, after growing up in Florida. She was long-listed for Young Poet Laureate for London in 2014. She has been previously published in The Wrong Quarterly, Squawk Back, and with Arachne Press, with work forthcoming in Femmeuary. She has written a short play as part of the London Design Festival, and took part in the Young Writers Workshop at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith in 2014. In 2015, she was long-listed for the Bare Fiction Prize and Bristol Short Story Prize.
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Timur Vermes
Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967. His father fled from Hungary after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. After graduation, he studied history and politics in the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since then he has been a journalist for tabloids such as the Munich Abendzeitung and the Cologne Express among other newspapers. In 2007 he started to ghostwrite books, including a book by a so-called crime scene cleaner entitled What's Left Of Death.
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In 2012 he published his debut novel, Er ist wieder da. In the satire he wrote a scenario in which Adolf Hitler in wakes up in 2011 in Berlin and through various comedy television shows eventually re-enters politics. After presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the novel rose to -
Elisabeth Herrmann
Elisabeth Herrmann ist eine der aufregendsten Stimmen unserer Zeit. Lebendig, abgründig, atmosphärisch – ihr Stil begeistert Krimileser seit der Veröffentlichung von Das Kindermädchen. (In der Verfilmung für das ZDF wird Jan Josef Liefers in der Hauptrolle zu sehen sein.) Mit Zeugin der Toten legt Elisabeth Herrmann nun einen Spannungsroman vor, der eine ganz ungewöhnliche Heldin vorstellt. Die Autorin lebt mit ihrer Tochter in Berlin.
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Valentine Goby
Valentine Goby est née en 1974. En sortant de Sciences Po, elle fait un séjour de 3 ans en Asie (Hanoi et Manille). À son retour en France, en 2002, elle publie aux éditions Gallimard son premier roman, La Note sensible.
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Volker Weidermann
He studied political science and German language and literature studies. He works as literary critic for the weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
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Bela B. Felsenheimer
Bela B. (Künstlername) bzw. Bela B. Felsenheimer (Schriftstellername) ist Schlagzeuger, Gitarrist, Komponist, Sänger, Schauspieler, Synchron- und Hörbuchsprecher, war Comicbuch-Verleger und hatte eine eigene Radiosendung. Bekannt ist er vor allem als Mitglied der Punkrock-Band die Ärzte. Als Autor hat er bisher einige Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht und ein Filmdrehbuch verfasst. Scharnow ist sein erster Roman.
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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 -
Eve Harris
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Eve Harris was born to Israeli-Polish parents in Chiswick, West London, in 1973. She taught for 12 years at inner-city comprehensives and independent schools in London and also in Tel Aviv, after moving to Israel in 1999. She returned to London in 2002 to resume teaching at an all girls' Catholic convent school. 'The Marrying of Chani Kaufman' was inspired by her final year of teaching at an all girls' ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in North West London. Eve lives in London with her husband, Jules, and their daughter Rosie. -
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 -
Maja Haderlap
Austrian author of Carinthian Slovenian descent. In 2011 she won the 25,000 Euro prize prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize at the 35th Festival of German Literature in Klagenfurt. Her award-winning poetic text is a three-generations family history, and highlights the resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes against the German Nazi Wehrmacht.
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She studied German language and literature at the University of Vienna and has a PhD in Theatre Studies. As a writer, she was co-editor of many years of bi-lingual Carinthian-Slovene literary magazine 'Mladje'. -
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Johannes Maria Köhlmeier ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Musiker und Moderator.
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Arno Geiger
Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993. From 1986 to 2002, he also worked as a technician at the annual Bregenzer Festspiele summer opera festival.
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In 1996 and in 2004, he took part in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis competition at Klagenfurt.
In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first Deutscher Buchpreis[1] literature prize (awarded by the booksellers' association of Germany) for his novel Es geht uns gut.
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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).
His second novel, Neue Vahr Süd, was released in 2004 and follows the life of Frank Lehmann while serving in the Bundesw -
