Annika Reich

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Annika Reich (born March 18, 1973 in Munich ) is a German writer , essayist and activist.

Life

Annika Reich writes novels and children's books, columns and essays. Her books are published by Carl Hanser Verlag . She has (co) founded and directed various cultural projects - such as the “Closed Society” culture salon in the Red Salon of the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, the authors' collective column 10nach8 on ZEIT ONLINE, the action alliance WE MAKE DAS and the award-winning portal for authors from war and crisis areas “Continue writing”. She studied ethnology and philosophy at the Free University in Berlin and worked as a lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden, at the University of Hamburg and the Bavarian Academy of Writing and as a guest lecturer at the Art Academy Düsseldorf .

From 2009 to 2013, she was an author of the radio essay series Fernschreiber des Zündfunks ( Bayerischer Rundfunk ) alongside Lena Gorelik , Norbert Niemann and Terézia Mora u. a. involved. She writes in the blog Ich, which she co-founded . Today. 10 to 8 on faz.net, which moved to ZEIT-Online in 2015 and is now published there as column 10 after 8. For FRAGILE. European Correspondence, a project by the literature houses, she exchanged letters with Zeruya Shalev in 2016 . With Katharina Grosse , she designed the January 2020 edition of German Vogue .

Since 2016 she has been the artistic director of the alliance “We do that”, which she founded together with 100 other women ( Katharina Grosse , Ines Kappert, Julia Eckert, Heike-Melba Fendel , Marion Detjen, Priya Basil , Sabine Hark and others). In this context, she initiated several projects that are active nationwide: Meet Your Neighbors , We Are Many and Continue Writing - A portal for literature from war and crisis areas , which was awarded the “The Power of the Arts” prize in 2018.

Reich lives in Berlin .

Publications

She has also published numerous short stories and essays in anthologies, edited volumes, magazines and catalogs.

Editions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. fazblog "I. Today. 10 to 8."
  2. ZEIT-Online "Column 10 after 8"
  3. RBB culture radio review by Claus-Ulrich Bielefeld on Annika Reich: "The nights on their side" ( memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturradio.de