Annette Mingels

Annette Mingels at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2017

Annette Mingels (born August 18, 1971 in Cologne ) is a German writer and cultural journalist .

Life

Annette Mingels studied German , linguistics and sociology. She graduated with a German doctorate on Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Sören Kierkegaard : The category of the individual as a common way of thinking . She was a lecturer at the University of Friborg and the University of Neuchâtel . Annette Mingels is married to the journalist Guido Mingels . She has lived in San Francisco with her family since 2018 .

Works (selection)

• Romantics . DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3832180141 ( short stories)
• The upright walk . DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7965-8 (novel)
• The love of the sailors . Dumont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7914-3 (novel)
• Doll happiness . Zytglogge, Gümligen 2003, ISBN 3-7296-0658-1 (novel)
• Clay pigeons . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2010 ISBN 978-3-8321-8534-3 (novel). Review in FAZ.
• What was all . Knaus, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8135-0755-3 (novel). Review in FAZ.
• This terrible happiness . Penguin, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-328-60100-5 (novel)

Awards

• 2017: Book Prize Ravensburger Verlag Foundation for "Was alles war"
• 2017: 8th and 5th place on the SWR best list in May and June (with the novel "Was alles war")
• 2010: Cultural award from the Canton of Zurich for the novel "Tontauben"
• 2010: Place 8/9 on the SWR best list December (with the novel: "Tontauben")
• 2008: Scholarship from HALMA, the European network of literary centers
• 2007: Cultural award from the Canton of Zurich for "Romantics. Stories of Love"
• 2007: 10th place on the SWR best list June (with the volume of stories: "Romantiker"; ex aequo Max Goldt, Martin Walser)
• 2007: Sylt-Quelle sponsorship award (for "Romantics", cover story of the short story)

Web links

Commons : Annette Mingels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Publications by and about Annette Mingels in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Annette Mingels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Annette Mingels' website
• Short biography and information on the work of Annette Mingels at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Annette Mingels at perlentaucher.de
• A difficult love (What connects the writer Annette Mingels with America)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sandra Kerschbaumer: Annette Mingels: Tontauben - The Liege and Deceived. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 5, 2010, accessed August 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Anja Hirsch: Annette Mingels: Experimental arrangement on love in modern times. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 8, 2017, accessed August 16, 2020 .