Anke Stelling

Anke Stelling at the Leipzig Book Fair 2019

Anke Stelling (born October 16, 1971 in Ulm ) is a German writer .

Life

Anke Stelling grew up in Stuttgart . From 1997 she completed her studies at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , which she graduated with the institute's diploma. At times she lived and worked with Robby Dannenberg . In 2003, together with Robby Dannenberg, she received the lessing award from the Free State of Saxony . In 2011 she received the 2nd prize of the Berlin Children's Theater Prize for the play Selber schuld - Katapult , awarded by the Grips Theater and the Gasag . In 2004 her novel Gisela was filmed.

In 2015, Bodentiefe Fenster was nominated on the longlist of the German Book Prize as well as on the hotlist for books from independent publishers; the publishing firm was there for the publication of floor to ceiling windows to Melusine-Huss price .

In 2017 her "incest novel" (spiegel.de) was published for care . The Berliner Zeitung wrote: “One sees this book lying on the bedside table with discomfort. At the same time it exerts a fascination. ”In Missy Magazine Jana Sotzko saw the novel as a“ fascinating and disturbing book ”and attested the author“ linguistic skill ”.

In 2018 her novel Schäfchen im dryenen was published, which was voted one of the most important books of 2018 by the NDR . In Germany radio culture Gesa said banks, Anke Stelling Roman'll acclaimed by the critics. In the taz , Susanne Messmer wrote that the novel was eminently socially critical: “What Anke Stelling pulls out harder than ever in her novel is the description of our class society. It's about a woman's attempt to develop class consciousness in a country where, unlike in France, for example, it is rather uncool to think about this good old question. ”In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Jens Bisky said the novel“ dissects the Berlin self-realization milieu with an anger that is rare in contemporary literature ”. In the Dresdner Latest News her novel is understood as a "general attack [...] against the 68 generation ". In 2019 Stelling won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for the novel .

Stelling lives in Berlin.

Awards

Anke Stelling, Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2019

• 2019: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for dry sheep
• 2019: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg

Works

• (together with Robby Dannenberg): Gisela. Ammann, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-250-10407-8 .
• (together with Robby Dannenberg): Take me with you. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-15243-7 .
• Lucky coincidence. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-15974-1 .
• Listen. Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-072513-4 .
• Floor-to-ceiling windows , Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95732-081-0 .
• Welfare, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95732-232-6 .
• Erna and the three truths , CBT at Random House, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-570-16458-7 .
• Sheep in the dry , novel, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95732-338-5

Audio book

• Sheep in the dry, speak low, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-940018-68-7

Web links

Commons : Anke Stelling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anke Stelling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Anke Stelling in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Anke Stelling at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Incest novel by Anke Stelling: “Prima ballerina fucks her son? Nope! ”- SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved March 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Susanne Lenz: Incest novel “Care”: Anke Stelling breaks the taboo. May 16, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Desolate intimacy. Accessed January 3, 2019 (German). 
4. ↑ NDR: NDR Kultur longlist for the best novel 2018 . ( ndr.de [accessed September 25, 2018]).
5. ↑ Anke Stelling: "Sheep in the dry" - Relentless description of the environment. Retrieved on January 3, 2019 (German). 
6. ↑ Susanne Messmer: With precise anger . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 9, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 2 ( taz.de [accessed on January 3, 2019]).
7. ↑ Jens Bisky: Take that, naive friends of the middle class . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 29, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 3, 2019]).
8. ↑ Gerd Roth; Birgit Zimmermann: general attack by a newcomer . In: Dresdner Latest News, No. 69, p. 9, . March 22, 2019.
9. ↑ Andreas Rüttenauer: Anke Stelling nominated for book prize: Sheep almost in the dry . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 14, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 23, 2019]).
10. ↑ Anke Stelling: You don't seem happy at all . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 29, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 16 ( taz.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).