Anne Lepper

Anne Lepper (born 1978 in Essen ) is a German writer.

Life

Lepper studied philosophy, literature and history in Wuppertal , Cologne and Bonn . She completed her master's thesis on Kant and Robert Walser . She completed her doctoral studies in Bamberg and Essen . She took a course in literary writing at the Bern University of the Arts .

With her debut piece Otherwise everything is inside , she was invited to Munich in 2009 for the “Long Night of New Drama” . Her play Käthe Hermann was nominated for the Mülheimer Theatertage in 2012 , and in 2017 she won the Mülheim Dramatist Prize for the play Mädchen in Not .

Awards

• 2009: Munich Promotion Prize for German-language Drama for Everything else is inside
• 2011: Work order from the tt-Stückemarkt for dog where are we going
• 2017: Mülheim Dramatist Prize for Girls in Need

Works

Pieces

• Otherwise everything is inside , Münchner Kammerspiele 2010
• Dog where are we going , awarded with the 2011 tt-Stückemarkt work order
• Seymour or I am here by mistake , Schauspiel Hannover 2012
• Käthe Hermann , Theater Bielefeld 2012
• La Chemise Lacoste , Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus 2015
• Oh dear the world , Theater Dortmund , Children's and Youth Theater 2015
• Girls in Need , National Theater Mannheim 2016

Radio plays

• 2012 Dog where are we going , director: Claudia Johanna Leist (WDR)
• 2012 Seymor. A play for the youth of Europe and the youth of the world , director: Detlef W. Meissner (WDR)
• 2013 oh, that's Morrissey , directed by Judith Lorentz (DKultur)
• 2016 Die Riesenfaust , directed by Detlef W. Meissner (WDR)

literature

• Hanna Klessinger: Parable Pieces from the »Post-Democracy«. On resistance poetics in current plays by Anne Lepper and Ferdinand Schmalz , in: GegenWorte - GegenSpiele. Towards a new aesthetic of resistance in contemporary literature and theater . Emmanuel Béhague, Hanna Klessinger, Amelia Valtolina (eds.), Bielefeld 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Lepper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anne Lepper. In: schaefersphilippen. 
• Winner of the Mülheim Dramatist Prize 2017: Anne Lepper. Mülheim Theater Days 

Individual evidence