Anna Kaleri

Anna Kaleri (* 1974 in Wippra , married Anna Schneider ) is a German-speaking author.

biography

Anna Kaleri was born in 1974 in the eastern Harz region. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she finished an apprenticeship and took her Abitur in Berlin. She was then accepted at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , where she studied from 1996 to 2002 with an interruption of a two-year stay in Switzerland. After graduating from the University of Leipzig in 2002, she worked as a freelance author and journalist for the Leipziger Volkszeitung , Deutschlandfunk , MDR Kultur and Tagesspiegel, among others . From 2008 to 2015 she headed the prose workshop in Leipzig. Anna Kaleri has published in numerous magazines and anthologies. After her debut with playful prose miniatures, "There is this man" (2003), followed the first novel, "Hochleben" (2006), an autobiographical ironic examination of events around 1989. In the novel "Heaven is a River" (2012 ) she emulates the life of her Masurian grandmother, whom she could not have known because she was shot in 1945. Anna Kaleri lives with her family in Leipzig .

plant

• There is this man. Prose miniatures. Luchterhand Literaturverlag , 2003, ISBN 3-630-87152-6 .
• There is this man. E-book. Lindenau Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815447-0-1 .
• Cheer. Novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag , 2006, ISBN 3-89812-387-1 .
• The sky is a river. Novel. Graf Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3-86220-032-0 .
• Masurian diary - search for traces of the novel "Heaven is a river". E-book. Lindenau Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815447-2-5 .

Social Commitment

In response to the xenophobic incidents in Saxony, Kaleri launched the "Literature instead of incendiary" initiative, which was joined by 60 authors from Saxony. After the voluntary readings, she founded "Lauter Leise eV Art and Democracy in Saxony" with other cultural workers and has been running the association ever since. Lauter Leise eV has set itself the goal of strengthening democracy and cosmopolitanism in Saxony through art campaigns and constructive forms of expression. Together with Saxon cultural workers, the association organizes around 30 cultural activities in schools and in public spaces every year. In 2016 he was awarded the "Active for Democracy and Tolerance" prize from the Federal Agency for Political Education and in 2018 the Saxon Democracy Prize.

Awards / Scholarships

• 1997 Weddinger Literature Prize
• 2003 Wiepersdorf - Scholarship from the Saxon Culture Foundation
• 2004 Cross-border commuter grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation
• 2004 radio play grant from the German Literature Fund
• 2007 working grant from the Saxon Culture Foundation
• 2010 residency at Studios International Höfgen
• 2017 Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Kaleri in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• Short biography and information on Anna Kaleri's work at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Anna Kaleri at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Platthaus: Masurian fate. Review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 28, 2013.
2. ↑ Bettina Hesse: Delicate and crass. Review. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . January 26, 2004.
3. ↑ Andrea Roedig : The head of the worm. Review. In: Friday . February 13, 2004.
4. ↑ Werner Jung : Men flood. Review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 7, 2004.
5. ↑ Janina Fleischer: Intoxicating, tragic, great. ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Review. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . October 26, 2012.
6. ↑ Karoline Knappe: Connect with culture instead of splitting radio feature in the program Länderreport Deutschlandfunk . April 26, 2017.
7. ↑ http://www.lauter-leise.de/ November 21, 2018.
8. ↑ http://www.demokratiepreis-sachsen.de/ November 9, 2018.