Alina Bronsky

Alina Bronsky, Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Alina Bronsky ( pseudonym ) (born December 2, 1978 in Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union ) is a Russian-German writer .

Life

Bronsky grew up on the Asian side of the Ural Mountains as well as in Marburg and Darmstadt . Her father is of Jewish descent and emigrated with the family to Germany as a quota refugee in the early 1990s . After dropping out of medical school, she worked as a copywriter and editor at Darmstädter Echo .

Alina Bronsky is the mother of four children. The father of their first three children had a fatal accident in January 2012 in the Valais Alps. She lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Ulrich Noethen . The couple have a daughter together.

Her debut novel, Scherbenpark, aroused great public interest. The novel was nominated for the 2009 German Youth Literature Prize and the Aspect Literature Prize in the “Young People's Book” category (jury of critics) . He appeared as a play and was with Jasna Fritzi Bauer in the lead role filmed .

Bronsky's second work, The Spiciest Dishes in Tatar cuisine , was on the longlist for the German Book Prize 2010. Baba Dunja's last love was also on the longlist for the German Book Prize (2015) . Both works were published as audio books by tacheles! / Roof Music . Sophie Rois took over the reading .

Works

• Shard Park . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04030-2 (also as audio book, ISBN 978-3-86610-560-7 ).
• The hottest dishes in Tatar cuisine. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04235-1 .
• Mirror child. Youth book. Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-401-06798-8 .
• Mirror crack. Youth book. Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-401-06799-5 .
• Mamas favorite. Picture book. Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus / edition chrismon, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-86921-116-9 .
• Just call me superhero. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04462-1 .
• Baba Dunja's last love. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04802-5 .
• with Denise Wilk: The abolition of the mother. DVA, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-421-04726-7 .
• And you appear in it too. Novel. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-76181-9 .
• My grandmother's braid. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05145-2 .

Web links

Commons : Alina Bronsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alina Bronsky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alina Bronsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Video portrait and reading as a competitor for the Bachmann Prize 2008
• Short biography and reviews of works by Alina Bronsky at perlentaucher.de
• Website for Bronsky's novel Scherbenpark (Kiepenheuer and Witsch)
• Official website of the publisher for Bronsky's book Spiegelkind
• 10 questions for Alina Bronsky on the Goethe-Institut website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irma Wagner: But the readers like her despite her trickery. Interview. In: Kölner Illustrierte . November 2008, accessed January 25, 2018.
2. ^ Parallel Worlds - German-Israeli Literature Days 2011. Partly anonymous. ( Memento from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Ofer Aderet ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: goethe.de/ins/il. מגזין - Goethe-Institut Israel, February 2012, accessed on January 25, 2018.
3. ↑ Grete Götze: The writing housewife. In: Frankfurter Rundschau online. January 9, 2012, accessed January 25, 2018.
4. ^ Eva Harm: Ulrich Noethen. Has become a father again. In: Bunte. August 29, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2013 . 
5. ↑ A time to throw stones. Review of Shard Park. In: FAZ . October 2, 2008, accessed January 25, 2018.
6. ↑ Shards Park. Rowohlt-Theaterverlag, accessed on January 28, 2013.
7. ↑ Shards Park. ( Memento from February 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ( Memento from February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2013, accessed on January 25, 2018.
8. ↑ Short review of the audio book Baba Dunja's last love on popshot.over-blog.de; accessed on May 15, 2019.