Barbara Bollwahn

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Barbara Bollwahn at a reading in the Flussschifferkirche on October 3, 2007

Barbara Bollwahn (born March 11, 1964 in Borna ; † July 28, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer and translator .

Life

Barbara Bollwahn graduated from high school in Geithain in 1982 and studied Spanish and English at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1983 to 1986 . After graduating as an interpreter and translator, she worked as a freelance Spanish interpreter from 1988 to 1990. In 1991 she worked as an editorial secretary at Tagesspiegel for four months , until she switched to the daily newspaper (taz) in August 1991 , where she initially worked as an editorial assistant and later as an editor.

In 1996 and 1997 she toured Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina. In 1998 she received an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship , which she used for a three-month work stay in Costa Rica. In 2004 she traveled to Cuba for four weeks , where she conducted interviews with writers, musicians and athletes. From 2001 to 2007 she worked as a reporter in the taz report pool. From 2004 to 2007 she wrote the east-west column “Little Red Riding Hood” for the newspaper .

For the work on her first youth book Mond über Berlin, which she wrote partly in Ticino and which was published in 2006 by Thienemann Verlag , she took time off from editorial work. Moon over Berlin was also published as an audio book . In 2007 she published her second book Der Klassenfeind + Ich, also with Thienemann. In it, she processed her own experiences as a young GDR citizen who fell in love with a West German from Nuremberg while on vacation in Hungary at Lake Balaton.

From October 2007 she worked as a freelance writer and journalist. Barbara Bollwahn lived in Berlin, where she died at the end of July 2018 at the age of 54.

Awards

In 1996, Barbara Bollwahn received the first prize of the watchdog prize of the German daily press for a report in the taz. The report of a xenophobic attack in Mahlow led to the arrest of the perpetrators.

In June 2008, her youth novel Der Klassenfeind + ich was nominated for the Buxtehuder Bulle youth book award. As a village writer in Eisenbach with a three-month scholarship, she researched local Black Forest colors in the early summer of 2009 and wrote her next book for young people.

Works

  • Moon over Berlin. Stuttgart 2006.
  • The class enemy + me. Stuttgart 2007.
  • Lucky clams. Stuttgart 2009.
  • The mess that's called life. Stuttgart 2010.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Bollwahn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Bollwahn. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume 2: P-Z. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 98, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201610192527 .
  2. ^ Dorfschreiber-Blog Eisenbach 2009. In: eisenbach-dorfschreiberin2009.blogspot.com. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Bollwahn: The taz report - four weeks after the incident. In: The daily newspaper (taz). June 17, 1996, archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; accessed on July 30, 2018 (reproduced on "DokZentrum ansTageslicht.de").
  4. ↑ Barbara Bollwahn - village clerk 2009: Wunderfitzig in the Black Forest. Förderkreis Kreatives Eisenbach, accessed on July 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bollwahn, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bollwahn de Paez Casanova, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author of books for young people
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Borna
DATE OF DEATH 28th July 2018
Place of death Berlin