Britta Boerdner

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Britta Boerdner (* 1961 in Fulda ) is a German writer .

biography

Britta Boerdner grew up in Gelnhausen and trained as a bookseller after graduating from high school. After several years of work, she began studying American, German and historical ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on literature and cultural studies. With a thesis on Walker Evans' photographic work (“The Thing Is Such A Secret And So Unapproachable”) she graduated with the title Magistra Artium. During her studies she worked as a copywriter and editor in an advertising agency, wrote travel reports, portraits of regions and cities, and worked on short stories and essays.

In 1999 the publication of "Bockenheimer Bouillabaisse", a detective novel, in which she worked as a co-author (Eichborn-Verlag). In 2009, “Der Frankfurter Hauptfriedhof” was published by Societätsverlag , and in 2012 “What remains hidden” was published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt. In 2015 she received a grant from the Hessian Literature Council for Emilia-Romagna and the “Inselschreiber Sylt” grant from the Sylt Foundation. The jury statement from the Sylt Foundation said: “Britta Boerdner's work sample from her emerging novel… impresses with atmospheric images and surprising twists and turns. ... She succeeds in bringing larger perspectives together in a small space as easily as precisely. ”For the funding period 2021, she is receiving a working grant from the Künstlerhaus Lukas.

Britta Boerdner lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

Publications

Novels and illustrated books

  • The day Frank Z. came to the Green Tree (novel), Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3627002350
  • What remains hidden (novel), Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3627001858
  • The Frankfurter Hauptfriedhof (essays on an illustrated book), Societätsverlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3797311474
  • Bockenheimer Bouillabaisse (detective novel, co-author), Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 978-3821805405

In magazines and anthologies

  • The thing with the piece of the mosaic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 2016
  • Lupo, the wolf, Schleswig-Holstein-Zeitung, August 2015
  • An exercise in serenity, MERIAN Sylt, June 2015
  • The view from below, in: Sylt, a travel book, Ellert & Richter, March 2015
  • Sylt from below, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 2015
  • Franz Reichelt, metamorphoses no.35, April 2014

Awards

  • Scholarship Inselschreiber Sylt 2015
  • Scholarship from the Hessian Literature Council / Hessian Literature Scholarship 2015
  • Grant from Künstlerhaus Lukas 2021

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boerdner, Britta - Hessian Literature Council. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Inselschreiber 2015: Britta Boerdner. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Inselschreiber 2015: Britta Boerdner / Explanation of the jury. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Decision of the jury . kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Boerdner, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda