Christa Ludwig (author)

Christa Ludwig , née Christa Schnorrenberg (born November 1, 1949 in Wolfhagen ) is a German writer and author of young adult books .

Life

Christa Ludwig attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Dortmund and studied German and English in Münster and Berlin from 1968 to 1974 , where she then worked as a teacher . She later switched to the Hohenfels Castle boarding school in Hohenfels (near Stockach) . Her first published work, a fable - drama entitled "Children and animals in the Empire Volumien" she had written for her students; it was published in 1983 as a one-time, small-edition special edition.

From 1989 Christa Ludwig became known as an author of books for children and young people. The six-volume series “Hufspuren”, which was read by young horse lovers in particular, arose from her long experience with horses. This was followed by the volumes "Himmelshuf" and "Mähnenmeer" as well as other books on the subject of horses, but also individual works for adult readers.

In 1998 Christa Ludwig received a grant from the Association of German Writers . In August 2001, the radio play of the same name, produced and broadcast by NDR based on her story “Pendelblut”, was voted radio play of the month . In 2005, her novel “Carlos in the Night” was included in the selection list of the Golden Leslie for the best German-language book for young people of the year.

Christa Ludwig is a member of the Association of German Writers and was part of the Quo Vadis group of authors . Since 2014 she has been editor and co-editor of the annual literary and cultural magazine "Mauerläufer".

Private

The author lives with her husband and an Icelandic horse near Lake Constance and has three grown sons.

Honors (selection)

• 1998 Scholarship from the Association of German Writers
• 1999 3rd prize at the Ellwanger Youth Literature Prize
• 2001 Radio Play of the Year ("Pendulum Blood")
• 2019 Eichendorff Literature Prize

Publications (selection)

• A song for Daphne's foal. Anrich, Kevelaer 1994, ISBN 3-89106-184-6 .
• Lightning without thunder. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7725-2245-9 .
• Carlos in the night. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7725-1545-2 .
• The seventh saga. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7725-2177-5 .
• Christa Ludwig: Personally. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7725-2267-3 .
• Hoof prints. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2008–2010 (series).
• Celestial Hoof and Sea of ​​Manes. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7725-2367-0 .
• Puzzle ponies. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7725-2478-3 .
• Bellcanto. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7725-2797-5 .
• A bundle of plantain , Verlag Oktaven, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-7725-3008-1 . (A novel about the later years of the poet Else Lasker-Schüler in Jerusalem)

Web links

• Review notes on Carlos that night. at perlentaucher.de
• Homepage of Christa Ludwig
• Chista Ludwig: button poems. Else Lasker-Schüler: There is a longing for the world (a tempo October 2018)
• Christa Ludwig in the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Autorenporträt , authors in Baden-Wuerttemberg, autoren-bw.de, accessed on 19 June 2016th
2. ↑ ^{a b} Biographical information in the database of the German National Library , d-nb.info, accessed on June 18, 2016.
3. ↑ Christa Ludwig in the online database Stayfriends , stayfriends.de, accessed on June 20, 2016.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Portrait of the author ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , berlin-historica.de, accessed on June 18, 2016. 
5. ^ Information on the 1983 fable drama , d-nb.info, accessed on June 18, 2016.
6. ↑ Presentation of the author ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Geistesleben.de, accessed on June 18, 2016. 
7. ↑ Biographical information on the author's official website ( memento of the original from June 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , christaludwig.net, accessed June 18, 2016. 
8. ^ Website “ Mauerläufer ” , mauerlaeufer.de, accessed on June 19, 2016.
9. ^ List of radio plays of the month , Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste , darstellendekuenste.de, accessed on June 19, 2016.
10. ↑ Eichendorff Literature Prize goes to Christa Ludwig