Anke Weschenfelder

Anke Weschenfelder (born August 16, 1964 in Zeulenroda ) is a German author .

Life

Anke Weschenfelder was born and raised in the GDR and has studied pedagogy for five semesters at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 1983 . She applied for an exit visa in 1986, since then has worked in odd jobs and in August 1989 fled to West Berlin via Hungary. She lived temporarily in England and studied English and German from 1993 to 1998 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1995/96 she attended the University of California in Davis on a DAAD scholarship . In 1998, Anke Weschenfelder moved to Switzerland with her husband from Lucerne , where she worked as a translator, clerk, editor for a literary dictionary and as a teacher and curative teacher. She has been working as a librarian in Zurich since 2013. She lives in Winterthur .

Novels

• Aschmanns deceptions , eFeF-Verlag Bern 2000, ISBN 3-905561-38-7
• Oklahoma , Rotpunktverlag Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85869-244-1
• Gaps in memory. Wild growth in the east , Schardt Verlag Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89841-492-0
• Backstage , 2013, ISBN 978-1-291-40624-5
• Revolution , 2013, ISBN 978-1-291-47148-9
• Nobody , 2013, ISBN 978-1-291-58380-9

Short story

Until death , in: Drafts. Zeitschrift für Literatur 34, Zurich, May 2003, ISBN 3-906729-18-4

literature

• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. De Gruyter, Berlin.
• Lexicon of contemporary Swiss writers. (Ed.) Authors of Switzerland AdS.

Prizes and awards

• 2001 Contribution to the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia for Oklahoma
• 2003 Contribution to the work of the Canton of Zurich for the previously unpublished novel Revolution

Web links

• Literature by and about Anke Weschenfelder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publication platform http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Kumari42