Christine Koschmieder

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Christine Koschmieder (* 1972 ) is a German literary agent, writer and translator from the American. She lives in Leipzig .

Life

Koschmieder studied Intercultural Communication and European Studies as well as Theater, Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig . Since 2003 she has been running the literature agency Partner + Propaganda for contemporary literature from Germany, post-Yugoslavia and the US hinterland, which represents Nadine Kegele , Inger-Maria Mahlke and Edo Popović , among others . Koschmieder is a member of the Association of Independent Lecturers . She also does press and public relations work for non-profit organizations . In 2013 she was a scholarship holder of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony .

Her debut novel Schweinesystem was nominated among the seven finalists for the aspekte literature award and the Hallertau debut award in 2014 . The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung featured it among the six most important German debuts in autumn 2014. The novel is set in Germany in 1980 and in the USA . The protagonists are two women who decide at the same time to change their lives and run into each other by chance in an airport toilet: the American Shirley from Marshalltown gives up her work in a pig slaughterhouse to become a representative for cosmetics for Mary Kay ; the German student Elisabeth starts an affair with a Stasi employee . Koschmieder lets both women “hit the wall with wit, verve and mercilessness”. In an interview she said that she played RAF as a child , but did not want to write the “umpteenth-Meine-Kindheit-im-Deutschen-Herbst-Text”. She has woven the real historical events of that time into the fictional plot. Maren Keller wrote in Kultur Spiegel that Koschmieder was telling the story at a pace that sometimes felt “like reading with the fast forward button”. With her, everything fits together quite naturally, "which would work hard for others ..."

In 2016 she again received a working scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and in 2018 she was a scholarship holder at the Goethe Institute in Thessaloniki .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An act of violence , Kultur Spiegel 8/2010
  2. ↑ Between Heartbreak and Harsh Reality Stern, March 13, 2008
  3. ↑ Vita on systemische-professionalitaet.de accessed on July 1, 2015 (pdf).
  4. ↑ Seven books in the final aspekte literature prize for the best literary debut , ZDF.de, aspekte ( memento from July 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), September 8, 2014
  5. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung , accessed on July 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Donaukurier , accessed on July 1, 2015.
  7. ↑ Autumn Books: What the most important debuts tell about. Christine Koschmieder: Androgynous fighting chickens. FAS , September 9, 2014
  8. ^ Furious women as a systemic error Die Presse, October 31, 2014
  9. ↑ Maria Motter: In theory, the bumblebee doesn't fly , fm4.ORF.at , December 19, 2014
  10. ↑ Maren Basement: Fuchsiateufelswild . Kultur Spiegel 1/2015, online
  11. ↑ KdFS, Archive 2016 , accessed March 5, 2020
  12. ↑ Goethe-Institut Greece, residents , accessed March 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Koschmieder, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary agent and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972