Bernadette Conrad
Bernadette Conrad (* 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist and writer.
Life
Conrad studied German and Romance languages in Bonn and Konstanz from 1983 to 1988. In 1991 she graduated as a social worker and worked in alcohol and drug counseling. From 1995 she worked as a freelance journalist from Konstanz, mainly for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Zeit and the Swiss radio SRF. From 2000 to 2003 Conrad lived as a foreign journalist for various Swiss media in Italy, and in 2013 as Writer in Residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. She has lived in Berlin since 2016.
Bernadette Conrad was best known for her literary travel reports and portraits as well as a biography of the American writer Paula Fox .
Works
- Nomads at heart. Libelle Verlag, Lengwil 2006, ISBN 3-905707-08-X .
- The many lives of Paula Fox, CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61259-6 .
- with Usama Al Shahmani: The Stranger - a strange teacher. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85791-816-2 .
- The smallest family in the world. From the exciting life alone with a child. btb Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-75635-3 .
- Getting big and strong. Children on the way to life. Conversations with Cornelia Funke , btb Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75803-6 .
Awards
- 2010 Valais Media Prize
- 2011 Ireland Prize for the best report from Ireland
- 2012 Baden-Württemberg literature scholarship
- 2013 Villa Aurora , Los Angeles, Writer in Residence
- 2014 Feuchtwanger Scholarship from the University of Southern California
- 2018 Berlin authors' grant
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernadette Conrad in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article by Bernadette Conrad in Die Zeit
- Author website
- Interview with Bernadette Conrad
- Film about Berlin's Alexanderplatz with Bernadette Conrad on Arte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scholarship holders details - VATMH (de). Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Working grants awarded to Berlin authors in 2019. November 16, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conrad, Bernadette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |