Antje Rávik Strubel

Antje Rávic Strubel during an interview at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2011

Antje Rávik Strubel (also: Antje Rávic Strubel), bourgeois Antje Strubel (born April 12, 1974 in Potsdam ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Antje Strubel initially trained as a bookseller and then studied literature, psychology and American studies in Potsdam and New York. In New York she also worked as a lighting technician at an off-theater.

She became known in 2001 when she received the Ernst Willner Prize at the Klagenfurt Literature Days . During this time she decided on an author's name by adding the invented name "Rávic" to her name, which she later changed to "Rávik". In 2003 she was awarded the Roswitha Prize and the German Critics' Prize.

Your novel Tupolev 134 received rave reviews. There she describes the conflicts over the hijacking of a Polish passenger plane by GDR citizens in 1978 . In 2005 she prevailed with Tupolew 134 in the redesigned Marburg Literature Prize and won the Bremen Literature Prize .

The novel " Kaltereichten der Luft" , published in 2007, is about a stay of people in their 30s in Sweden, where they are confronted with unlived life and the pitfalls of happiness. This literary-psychological novel is also highly praised by literary critics. The precision of the language, the expressiveness in the description of the light shaped by the landscape, the love and the leaps in life and recognition are particularly emphasized. In 2007 she received the Hermann Hesse Prize and the Rheingau Literature Prize for this novel .

Antje Rávik Strubel lives and works in Potsdam . From February to July 2016 she was the town clerk in Rheinsberg .

• See also on the novel Tupolew 134 : Ludwigsfelde in literature, Antje Rávic Strubel , Der Pechpfuhl in literature

Works

Individual publications

• Open aperture . Novel. dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-24251-5 .
• Under snow . Episodic novel. dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-24277-9 .
• To cheat on. A night piece . Marebuch, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-936384-01-0 .
• Tupolev 134 . Novel. CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52183-5 .
• Colder layers of air . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-075121-8 .
• From the village. Adventure stories for the festival . dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24622-4 .
• Instructions for use for Sweden . Piper Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-27556-9 .
• Days fall into night . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-075136-2 .
• Instructions for use for Potsdam and Brandenburg . Piper Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-27604-7 .
• Instructions for use for skiing . Piper Verlag, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-492-27671-9 .
• In the woods of the human heart. Episodic novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002281-3

Translations

• Joan Didion : The Year of Magical Thinking . Novel. Claasen, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-546-00405-3 .
• Joan Didion : We tell each other stories in order to live . Short stories. Claasen, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-546-00409-1 .
• Joan Didion : Blue Hours . Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-550-08886-5 .
• Joan Didion : South and West . Notes. Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-05022-0 .
• Favel Parrett : Beyond the Shallows . Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013.
• Lucia Berlin : What else I missed. Stories . Arche Literatur Verlag, Zurich 2016.

Radio plays

• Colder layers of the air , Deutschlandfunk, 2006
• Tupolev 134 , Southwest Broadcasting, 2007
• Klappersteine , Deutschlandfunk, 2009
• The house of Fernanda Mendoza , by Zaia Alexander & Antje Rávic Strubel, Südwestrundfunk, 2011

Editing

• Time zones. Literature in Germany 2004 . Edition Selene, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85266-233-8 .

Awards (selection)

• 1991/1993 laureate meeting of young authors
• 2000 scholarship at Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 2001 Ernst Willner Prize , Klagenfurt
• 2002 Prize for Literature from the Academy of Arts
• 2003 Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
• 2003 Roswitha Prize
• 2003 Critics' Prize for Literature
• 2004 Villa Aurora Scholarship , Los Angeles
• 2005 Sponsorship Prize of the Bremen Literature Prize; Marburg Literature Prize
• 2007 Hermann Hesse Prize; Rheingau Literature Prize; Nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
• 2009 scholarship in the "Atelier Müllerhaus", Lenzburg , Switzerland
• 2017 Heinrich Heine guest lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg
• 2019 Prize of the Literature Houses

Secondary literature

• Andreas Erb (Ed.): Antje Rávic Strubel. Loophole: literature . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1153-2 .

Web links

Commons : Antje Rávic Strubel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Antje Rávic Strubel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Antje Rávic Strubel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Official website of Antje Rávic Strubel
• Author's website by Antje Rávic Strubel at Fischer Verlag
• Short biography and information on the work of Antje Rávik Strubel at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Antje Rávik Strubel at perlentaucher.de
• Antje Strubel Ravik in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hubert Spiegel: Antja Rávic Strubel: Tupolew 134: Those who do not love betray themselves . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 23, 2019]).
2. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Strubel's young ghost society . welt.de , March 16, 2007
3. ↑ fischerverlage.de
4. ↑ Jens Blankennagel: The Seductress. With distance, wit and the joy of telling stories, Antje Strubel has written a very special travel guide about the state of Brandenburg . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 16, 2012, p. 20; Review.