Birgitta Arens
Birgitta Arens (born November 16, 1948 in Oeventrop ) is a German writer .
Life
Birgitta Arens worked as a nurse's assistant for two years after attending secondary school . In 1970 she made up her Abitur and then studied German , history , education and journalism at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . At the same time she worked as a journalist and from 1975 to 1978 as a freelancer for Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne . In 1977 she married and moved to Berlin, since 1978 she has been working as a freelance writer . Today she lives and works in Munich.
For her only novel Katzengold , the montage-like description of the fate of the family in a Westphalian village, she received the jury prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt in 1982 and the Märkische Stipendium for literature in 1983 .
Works
- together with Reinhard Michl : Streunereien im Advent , Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934036-49-X .
- Katzengold , Piper, Munich / Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-492-02787-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Birgitta Arens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Birgitta Arens in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arens, Birgitta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oeventrop |