Adriana Stern

Adriana Stern (* 1960 on the Lower Rhine) is a German (predominantly) fiction writer who comes from a Jewish family.

life and work

She began to write at the age of twelve, at thirteen she found out that she had Jewish ancestors, at fifteen she ran away from home, joined the squatting movement and lived on various housing projects in Berlin , Hamburg , Bochum and Amsterdam .

She allows her experiences to flow into her books. Her literary work focuses on novels for children and young people , which - with the appearance of detective novels - raise awareness of socially and politically important topics and at the same time offer those affected concrete assistance. Her books often describe Jewish life in Germany today. In essays, she also expresses herself on anti-Semitism . She occasionally receives inquiries from other authors as to whether their description of everyday Jewish life in the respective manuscript is correct. She is often amazed at the prevailing ignorance. She sees it as the duty of the publishers and the feature pages, who are terribly reluctant to deal with the topic.

The topic of otherness and exclusion is a special concern of Stern - from my own experience.

In addition to writing, she works as a songwriter and has worked in various girls' houses and youth centers . She also works with refugee children and offers writing workshops .

Works (selection)

As Adriana Stern

• Hannah and the others. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-88619-993-2
• Pia's labyrinth. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88619-479-5 .
• School Teaching Manual Stories. Dealing with diversity. Sexual orientation and diversity in education and counseling. Ministry of Health, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.), 2004.
• And then Sunny came along. Novel. Publishing house Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941787-06-3 .
• Jockel's silence. Publishing house Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941787-26-1 .
• And you are far from free ... Ariella Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945530-08-5 .

As a Channah star

• And sometimes it turned into anger. Anti-Semitism in the women's movement . In: Coming Out. Reading book. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-88619-718-7 .
• I remember. In: Micha Brumlik: Home, no home? Young Jews and their future in Germany (= Anne Frank Shoa Library ). Bleicher, Gerlingen 1998, ISBN 978-3-88350-046-1 .

As Anna Knupp-Rabe / Anna Knupp

• For some they are breaks, for us new beginnings. The story of a Berlin prololesben group . In: Ika Hügel-Marshall (Ed.): Remote connections. Racism , anti-Semitism, class oppression. Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-922166-91-7 .
• Contributions in: Constance Amaci (Ed.): Originally everything was there. Texts and poems by lesbians who have experienced sexual violence. Spring awakening, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-928456-09-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Adriana Stern in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Adriana Stern: About me. In: adriana-stern.de. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Adriana Stern. CV of Adriana Stern. In: lovelybooks.de. aboutbooks GmbH, accessed on November 22, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Adriana Stern. Biography. In: boedecker-kreis.de. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Adrian's star. Vita. In: vs-nrw.de. Association of German Writers (VS) NRW, accessed on November 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Sharon Adler: Adriana Stern - And then came Sunny. A youth thriller about drugs, anti-Semitism, friendship and trust about 14-year-old Kinneret for young people aged 13 and over by the author of “Hannah and the Others” and “Pias Labyrinth”. In: aviva-berlin. December 10, 2010, accessed November 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Anna Hohle: Interview with Adriana Stern at the Leipzig Book Fair 2011. With “Jockels Schweigen” the writer and AVIVA author has again published a book for young people that is devoted to a social taboo. On a sunny Saturday in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the Leipzig Book Fair, we talked about their research on the abuse of boys, the response from book dealers and the diverse lives of young people. In: AVIVA-Berlin .de. Sharon Adler, April 3, 2011, accessed May 1, 2020 .