Alina Herbing

Alina Herbing at a reading in Munich

Alina Herbing (* 1984 in Lübeck ) is a German writer .

Life

When Alina Herbing was seven years old, her parents moved with her and her three siblings from Lübeck to the former GDR border area in Schlagsülsdorf , a small village in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where Alina Herbing grew up. She studied history and German at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald and literary writing in Hildesheim . She has published short stories in magazines and anthologies and was co-editor of the literary magazine Bella triste for four issues . She lives in Berlin and taught German in integration courses for women until January 2017.

Her debut novel, Nobody Is Near the Calves , was published in February 2017 , in which, according to Kathleen Hildebrandt in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, she “mercilessly clears up the romantic image of country life”. Gunda Bartels wrote in the Tagesspiegel : “The authenticity with which Herbing tells of the post-reunification generation, the natural racism, alcoholism, the clinging of men to traditional gender roles and the booming lack of perspective, she acquired in everyday life.” The novel was NDR - Book of the month February 2017. On the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair, Der Spiegel counted it among the 25 most discussed novels of the literary season.

Awards

• 2012: 3rd prize of the MDR literature prize for her short story His hand is trembling, so is the tea
• 2017: NDR book of the month February 2017 for her debut novel Nobody is with the calves
• 2017: Nomination for the aspekte literature prize with Nobody is with the calves (finalist)
• 2018: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis der Stadt Bad Homburg for Nobody is with the calves

Works

• Nobody is with the calves. Arche Verlag , Hamburg and Zurich 2017. ISBN 978-3-7160-2762-2
• Editor with Hanns-Josef Ortheil and Thomas Klupp : Weltliteratur 3. From Goethe to Fontane , Hildesheimer Universitätsschriften, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-934105-34-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Alina Herbing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Alina Herbing in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Homepage of the author
• SWR2 Die Buchkritik, April 18, 2017 (pdf and audio)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gunda Bartels: Portrait of the writer Alina Herbing: When the Besamer comes , Tagesspiegel, March 27, 2017
2. ↑ Former editors of BELLA triste
3. ↑ Kathleen Hildebrand: "I remember a feeling of being at the mercy" , Süddeutsche Zeitung Literatur, February 14, 2017 (accessed on September 1, 2017)
4. ^ Felix Bayer: To the Leipzig Book Fair. The most important novels of the season , Spiegel Online Kultur, March 23, 2017
5. ↑ Portrait of Alina Herbing ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , mdr.de, accessed on August 31, 2017 
6. ↑ Alina Herbing cleans up the country life image , ndr.de, February 11, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2017