Angelika Overath

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Angelika Overath at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Angelika Overath (born July 17, 1957 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer and journalist .

life and work

Angelika Overath, 2005

Overath studied German , history , Italian and empirical cultural studies in Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1986 with a thesis on blue in modern poetry . She then worked as an author in Greece for three years and returned to Germany in 1991. Overath now lives in Sent (Lower Engadine, Switzerland).

During his studies, Overath wrote for the Schwäbisches Tagblatt and the magazine TransAtlantik . Later she wrote regularly reports and essays for the newspapers Frankfurter Rundschau , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), the NZZ am Sonntag , as well as for Die Zeit , for the travel magazine Merian and Das Magazin , for the magazines du , GEO and mare as well as for the Series of publications by the Vontobel Foundation .

Since 1998 she has mainly published prose works ; she has also published several anthologies . She is a lecturer at the Swiss journalism school MAZ . She dedicated her novel, She revolves around , to Henrike Lähnemann , published in 2014 . After moving to the Engadin , she learned the Rhaeto-Romanic language and became a member of the Rhaeto-Romanic writers' association (Uniun per la Litteratura Rumantscha). and published (as of 2018) two volumes of poetry in the second language.

Angelika Overath is married to the literary scholar Manfred Koch and has three children.

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

  • The other blue. On the poetics of a color in the modern poem. Metzler, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-476-00616-6 .
  • The blue book. Reading styles of a color. (Ed. With Angelika Lochmann). Greno, Nördlingen 1988, ISBN 3-89190-432-0 .
  • "From the reality of life" - Hir das Blatt. News from everyday life with Friedrich Hölderlin , communicated by Lotte Zimmer . Compiled by Angelika Overath and Gregor Wittkop. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-932109-07-2 .
  • Dealer of the lost colors. True stories. Libelle, Lengwil 1998, ISBN 3-909081-11-8 .
  • From the luck of a second burning paper. True stories. Libelle, Lengwil 2000, ISBN 3-909081-75-4 .
  • Bad marriages. A wedding book, compiled from many sources. (Ed. With Manfred Koch). Eichborn ( The Other Library 189), Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-8218-4710-7 .
  • The art of simplicity. (Ed. With Manfred Koch). Herder, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-451-27825-1 .
  • Sparrow wisdom. Herder, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-451-27672-0 . (Dutch by Annette van Schoonhoven: Muss en praat. Palet Gifts, Amsterdam 2003.)
  • Sleepless. The book of the bright nights. A literary no-turn for sleep seekers and those on watch. (Ed. With Manfred Koch). Libelle, Lengwil 2002, ISBN 3-909081-47-9 .
  • Changeling of poetry. The unheard of poet Christine Lavant . Kreicher, Warmbronn 2002, ISBN 3-932843-38-X .
  • Tolerance. Three readings of Lessing's fairy tale from the Ring in 2003 (with Navid Kermani and Robert Schindel ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-688-1 .
  • Half the bread of the birds. Portraits and passages. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-730-6 .
  • Generations pictures. Explorations for family happiness. Libelle, Lengwil 2005, ISBN 3-905707-00-4 .
    • first presented as generations. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2005.
  • Near days. Novel in one night. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-927-9 . Translated into Italian and Czech.
  • Geniuses and their secrets. 100 biographical puzzles. (With Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath). List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-471-78310-5 .
    • As an audio book (read by Manfred Koch): 4 audio CDs. Radioropa / Technisat, Daun 2008, ISBN 978-3-8368-0170-6 .
  • Bringing dogs is allowed. A literary salon. (Ed. With Manfred Koch). List, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-471-78311-5 .
  • Essay in: Roman Kurzmeyer and Poger Perret (eds.): Dunkelschwestern. Annemarie von Matt - Sonja Sekula. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85881-213-1 .
  • Seahorse. In: Andrea Köhler (Ed.): The animal and us. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-40126-4 . Page 93–100.
  • Geniuses and their secrets. Volume 2: 100 new biographical puzzles. (With Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath). List, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-471-78312-2 .
  • Airport fish. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87307-7 .
  • Fermada sün dumonda - stay in the mountains. In: drafts 59, curriculum vitae . Association drafts for literature, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-906729-73-2 .
  • All the colors of the snow. Senter diary. Luchterhand, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87340-4 .
  • Flowing land. Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87391-6 .
  • Round table. Writers cook for their friends (with Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath). Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87390-9 reading sample
  • She turns around . Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87349-7 reading sample (PDF)
  • Poesias dals prems pleds. 33 Romance poems and their German approaches . Verlag Klaus G. Renner, Zurich, Otiglio 2014
  • A winter in Istanbul. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87534-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overath in conversation with Katja Schwiglewski. (8:36)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the occasion of the book All Colors of Snow. WDR 3 - Resonanzen, December 29, 2010. Accessed January 2, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wdr3.de  
  2. ↑ Reading sample on the publishing house of Random House (PDF)
  3. ↑ Angelika Overath's report Bis ins Mark (PDF file, 0.2 MB) at Reporterforum e. V., accessed December 30, 2010.
  4. ^ Work sample and vita of Overath in the archive of the Art Foundation
  5. ^ Website of the Thaddäus Troll Prize 2005
  6. ↑ The 2006 prizes have been awarded . at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (ORF)
  7. ↑ Angelika Overath with Das Aquarium at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2006.
  8. ↑ Angelika Overath in the Center for Anglo-German Cultural Relations ( Memento of the original of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk
  9. ↑ Overath's excellent text: Fliessendes Land .
  10. ↑ Swiss Book Prize 2009: The Nominees Short Film on YouTube (Overath: 1:30 to 3:01)
  11. ↑ Sudetendeutscher Tag 2012 Nuremberg, award winners  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sudeten.de  
  12. ↑ SRF press release from January 19, 2015
  13. ↑ Excerpts ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2010 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. at the online academy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . Retrieved January 6, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fes-online-akademie.de
  14. ↑ Generations. ( Memento of January 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Foreword by Hans-Dieter Vontobel (PDF file, 0.1 MB). Retrieved January 6, 2011.
  15. ^ Table of contents at the German National Library.
  16. ↑ Recommended book in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 27, 2008, accessed on January 15, 2011.
  17. ↑ Angelika Overath: The book belongs to the king! About remembering and writing - How a novel is made and the author dies one of his cat deaths. Report on the creation of the novel . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 9, 2009, accessed on December 14, 2010.
  18. ↑ Ruth Klüger : From swimming and flying. Book review in Die Welt on April 24, 2010, accessed on November 20, 2010.
  19. ^ Conversation between the author and Manfred Illi.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In the literary and cultural studies organ Schau ins Blau. Edition 10.1: Strangeness. Retrieved November 21, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schauinsblau.de  
  20. ^ Pre- print of an excerpt in the travel magazine of "Die Zeit" on December 2, 2010, accessed on December 6, 2010.
  21. ↑ Meike Feßmann : When the holiday resort becomes home. Book review as text version and conversation in Deutschlandradio Kultur on November 30, 2010, accessed on November 30, 2010.
  22. ^ Diari da Sent è in success. ( Diary from Sent - a success. ) Audio report on the book (German / Romansh.) On Radio Rumantscha on December 21, 2010, accessed on December 22, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Overath, Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe