Anke Engelmann

Anke Engelmann (* 1966 in Weimar ) is a German author , journalist and editor .

Career

Engelmann worked from 1984 to 1990 as a theater decorator at the Schauspielhaus Erfurt and completed a technical training (adult qualification) as a furniture upholsterer. From 1992 to 2001 she studied Older German Language and Older German Literature, German Linguistics and European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After training as a journalist, she worked as a trainee and from 2003 to 2008 an editor at the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland in Berlin. In 2008 she returned to Erfurt and worked there as a freelance journalist. She has been running an office for applied poetry since 2011 and is a lecturer for creative writing, literacy and German as a foreign language (DaF). She lives in Weimar.

Books

Amalia . Stories, Edition S Punkt, Niederburg-Verlag, Stadtilm 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816965-1-6 .
Say, how long have your feet ... Seven stories and a poem , co-author, (award winner text), Autofasten Thüringen, Erfurt 2014.
rain call sos . A poem by Anke Engelmann and drawings by Elisabeth Hellmund, artist book, Office for Applied Poetry, Erfurt 2015.

Editions

Theo Hellmund (Devi Danu) heart in the head . Book + CD, Office for Applied Poetry, Beyernaumburg / Erfurt 2015; ISBN 978-3-7375-5650-7
Group picture with polar bear . A selection from Password Pegasus. Creative writing at the Volkshochschule Arnstadt-Ilmenau , Arteffekt Verlag, Bendeleben 2019, ISBN 978-3-9373-6409-4 .

Reports

I don't ask myself why I'm alive. Matthias Vernaldi calls for the right to self-determination . New Germany, May 13/14, 2006.
Stick curls and bulletproof virgins. Encounter with the Arnstadt author Eugenie Marlitt . New Germany, August 4th / 5th, 2012.
Who is still talking about war? The trauma of childhood accompanies Brunhilde Knieps to this day - and also affects her children . New Germany, December 15/16, 2012.
Living spaces - places of remembrance. Norbert Schneider lived in one and the same apartment for almost eight decades. Now the house is falling into disrepair . New Germany, April 20/21, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME	Engelmann, Anke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, journalist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar