Andrea Scrima

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Andrea Scrima at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2018

Andrea Scrima (born 1960 in New York City ) is an American installation artist, art critic and writer who has lived in Berlin since 1984 .

Life

Andrea Scrima studied in New York City at the School of Visual Arts and went to West Berlin in 1984 with a scholarship to the Berlin University of the Arts . She has been working in Berlin since then. She was able to exhibit her artistic work internationally. Around 2003 she broke off her career as a painter and visual artist, lived in New York for a year on a scholarship, and began to concentrate entirely on writing.

She has written art and literary reviews for The Brooklyn Rail , The Rumpus , Quarterly Conversation , Music & Literature , Lute & Drum , The Scofield , manuscripts , typist and The American Reader, and for online magazines.

Scrima published her first novel in 2010, which was published in Graz in 2018 in German translation.

She is the mother of one child. In 2018 she announced that she had applied for German citizenship.

bibliography

Novels

Anthologies

  • Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board (Ed. Nava Renek). Spuyten Duyvil Press, Brooklyn, New York 2014. All about love, nearly : Excerpt from the blog Stories I tell myself when I can't get to sleep at night. ISBN 978-0-923389-95-6
  • Strange Attractors (Edie Meidav ​​ed.). University of Massachusetts Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts March 2019. All about love, nearly : Excerpt from the blog Stories I tell myself when I can't get to sleep at night.

Short stories

  • Sisters . Published November 2017 on the literature website Statorec. Won a Hackney Literary Award in 2007.
  • Pandora's Children . Published November 2017 on the literature website Statorec

Reviews, literature (selection)

  • Jana Fuchs, “Thinking in Loops,” Literaturkritik.de , University of Mainz, October 5, 2018
  • Aimee Parkison, “The Delicious Unease of A Lesser Day ,” The Brooklyn Rail , September 2018
  • Dirk Windmöller, “Great Stories from Poetic Sources,” Neue Westfälische Zeitung , August 27, 2018
  • Marina Büttner, “Andrea Scrima: How many days,” Literaturleuchtet , June 20, 2018
  • Bettina Schulte, “Mosaic stones that do not fit into the picture,” Badische Zeitung , May 17, 2018
  • Claudia Fuchs, “Andrea Scrima, How many days ,” SWR2, April 3, 2018
  • Elisabeth Wagner, “Mysterious way home,” Die taz , weekend edition, 10. – 11. February 2018
  • Lauren Smith, “ A Lesser Day by Andrea Scrima,” Bookslut , July 2010
  • Nicolle Elizabeth, “Small Wonder,” The Brooklyn Rail , April 2010

Reviews, art

  • Andreas Rauth, “The millionaire of Chinese descent. Andrea Scrima, ” Jitter Magazine for Art and Visual Culture, September 2018
  • Peter Herbstreuth, “Lingering thoughts of disappointed love”, Tagesspiegel, October 25, 1998
  • Katja Reissner, “Narcissistic dance: The museum academy is showing an exhibition by Andrea Scrima”, Tagesspiegel, September 19, 1998
  • Peter Herbstreuth, “Painting as a Medium”, Kunstforum, Vol. 133, February – April 1996
  • Thomas Wulffen, “Pictures in words”, in the exhibition catalog Painting as Medium, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, November 1995
  • Andreas Quappe, “Translucent layers of paint - the artist Andrea Scrima in the Mittelstrasse Gallery in Potsdam”, Tagesspiegel, February 18, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and questions about the person from October 28, 2018
  2. ^ Gallus Frei-Tomic: Andrea Scrima “How many days”, Droschl , review in literaturblatt.ch, accessed October 28, 2018
  3. ↑ FAS, August 19, 2018, p. 41.
  4. ↑ FAS, August 19, 2018, p. 41.
  5. ↑ SISTERS | ®┊STAT®REC (en-US) . In: ®┊STAT®REC , May 6, 2017. 
  6. ^ Winners - Hackney Literary Awards ( en-US )
  7. ↑ PANDORA'S CHILDREN | ®┊STAT®REC (en-US) . In: ®┊STAT®REC , May 7, 2017. 
  8. ↑ By Jana Fuchs: Thinking in Loops - With “How many days” Andrea Scrima wrote a lyrical novel that tells of the flowing waters of memory: literaturkritik.de .
  9. ↑ The Delicious Unease of A Lesser Day .
  10. ↑ Dirk Windmöller: Great stories in the poetic sources . In: wages . 
  11. ↑ Andrea Scrima: How many days of literature publishing Droschl . In: literaturleuchtet , June 20, 2018. 
  12. ^ Badische Zeitung: Mosaic stones that do not fit into the picture - Literature & Lectures - Badische Zeitung . 
  13. ↑ SWR2 Worth reading Review: Andrea Scrima: Wie viel Tage | Worth reading | SWR2 . In: swr.online . 
  14. ^ Elisabeth Wagner: Mysterious way home . In: Die Tageszeitung: taz , February 10, 2018, p. 14. 
  15. ↑ Bookslut | A Lesser Day by Andrea Scrima .
  16. ↑ SMALL WONDER .
  17. ↑ The millionaire of Chinese origin. Andrea Scrima - Jitter .Magazine .
  18. ↑ Lingering thoughts of disappointed love . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online , October 27, 1998. 
  19. ↑ Narcissistic dance . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online , September 19, 1998. 
  20. ↑ Painting as a medium - www.kunstforum.de . In: www.kunstforum.de . 
personal data
SURNAME Scrima, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American installation artist and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City