Dana Bönisch

Dana Bönisch (born June 4, 1982 in Frechen ) is a German writer , literary scholar and journalist.

Life and works

Bönisch studied literature and art history in Bonn . She published her first short stories and essays in the now magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and in anthologies by the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house . Her novel Rocktage was published in October 2003 . As a freelance writer, she worked for the music magazines Spex and Intro , for Stadtrevue and taz . In 2004 she received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature . Since 2010 she has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Department for Comparative Studies) at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2014 she received the Forum Prize of the Forum for Modern Language Studies . Her research areas are late modern war and terrorism in literature as well as visuality and spatial theory.

Publications

• Rock days. (Roman), Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2003; ISBN 3-462-03326-3 .
• Dana Bönisch reads rock days. (CD), Der Hörverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89940-307-X .
• Geopoetics of Terror. Visuality and topology in texts after '9/11'. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8471-0790-9 .

Others

• DNA . Narrative. In: Bella triste No. 18, Hildesheim 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dana Bönisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website of the University of Bonn
• Profile on academia.edu with list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winners of the Forum Prize. In: Oxford Academic. Retrieved September 28, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Dana Bönisch. In: University of Bonn. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .