Christine Wunnicke
Christine Wunnicke (born September 29, 1966 in Munich ) is a German writer and translator .
Life
Wunnicke studied linguistics , ancient German and psychology in Berlin and Glasgow . She has been working as a freelance writer since 1991. She has published prose, radio features and radio plays .
Christine Wunnicke is a member of the PEN Center Germany . She lives in Munich.
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In addition to a biography of the castrati Filippo Balatri, a number of novels and a short story appeared. From 2015 to 2020, three titles were included in the long list of the German Book Prize . Wunnicke's 2020 novel The Lady with the Painted Hand was the most successful. He was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and was awarded the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize. The theme is the fictional encounter between the German explorer Carsten Niebuhr and a Persian astronomer.
Christine Wunnicke's characters include a Scottish rock musician, the two film pioneers Selig and Boggs and the Japanese neurologist Shimamura . Her characters are often "not only eccentric and each blessed with a very special obsession, but also historically guaranteed", but develop a life of their own in the books. As the author herself states, they are “disintegrating people, fragmented figures”. Again and again she describes "intermediate states, border crossings, dubious identities, doppelgangers."
In the justification of the jury for the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize it is said that Wunnicke had created an independent work in which the genres would be mixed, starting with learned grotesques and historical miniature novels to scientific satire. In addition, she mastered the scientific jargon of different times, mythological and religious idioms and their parodies .
Works
Novels, short stories, short stories
- Fortescues Fabrik , Munich 1998 (Knaus), ISBN 3813500942 .
- Jetlag , Munich 2000 (Knaus), ISBN 3813501558 .
- The art of determination , Berlin 2003 (Kindler)
- Missouri , Hamburg 2006 (Männerschwarm Verlag), ISBN 3935596448 . Translated into English by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver 2010
- Serenity , Berlin 2008 (Osburg), ISBN 3-940731064 .
- Nagasaki, approx. 1642. Novelle , Edition Epoca, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-905513-51-6 .
- Selig & Boggs. The invention of Hollywood, Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937834-59-7 .
- The fox and Dr. Shimamura ; Berenberg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937834-76-4 .
- Translated into English: The Fox and Dr. Shimamura , New Directions, 2019
- Translated into French: Le renard et le docteur Shimamura , Actes Sud, 2020
- Katie , Berenberg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946334-13-2 .
- Translated into French: Katie , Actes Sud, 2018
- The Lady with the Painted Hand , Roman. Berenberg, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-946334-76-7 .
Biographies
- The tsar's nightingale. The life of the castrato Filippo Balatri , Munich 2001 (Claassen), ISBN 3546002482 .
Translations
- The damaged libertine ( John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester ), Hamburg 2005 (swarm of men) and Munich 2008 (dtv)
- The flower beneath your feet ( Ronald Firbank ), Hamburg 2008 (swarm of men)
- The stories Arthur Snatchfold , The Ancient Wings , playing the role as a? and The story of a panic in: The future life ( EM Forster ), Hamburg 2009 (swarm of men)
Radio plays (selection)
- 1993 The Dreams of André Le Nôtre (Director: Otto Düben , SDR)
- 1994 Bozzy's Johnson (Director: Stefan Hilsbecher , SDR)
- 1996 The walrus and the carpenter, a vampire story (Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann , SDR)
- 1997 cry of distress from a magnetically poisoned person (based on Friedrich Krauss) (director / music: Stefan Hardt, RB)
- 2000 We are a happy family . Punk in America, (Director: Hans Helge Ott RB / SR)
- 2002 Start me up (Director: Gottfried von Eine , RB)
- 2006 Fleshcrafter (Director: Andrea Getto , NDR)
- 2008 GPS Dream Lover (Director: Holger Rink , RB)
- 2018 Alles Rumi (Direction: Ulrich Lampen , RB)
- 2020 Everything Tatami (Director: Ulrich Lampen , RB)
Radio features (selection)
- 1993 God Lullo himself, immortal and exalted . The 'Lulliade' by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi (WDR)
- 1996 Radio Steam Calliope . Ezra Pound's Paths to Music (BR)
- 2002 Life, Death and Mysteries of the Fabulous Joe Meek (BR)
- 2006 Mountain High, River Deep - gloss and misery of the impresario Phil Spector (BR)
- 2007 I prefer freedom to diamond chains . Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (SWR)
- 2008 The indomitable Astrea . About the English writer Aphra Behn (SWR)
- 2009 The world, worn as an earring . Life and beliefs of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (SWR)
- 2010 The brewer from Streatham Park . On the life, love and writing of the Hester Thrale Piozzi (SWR)
- 2012 The story of the dervish Mirza Abdullah and his pious wife . Lady Isabel and Sir Richard Burton (SWR)
- 2015: The Ghost Club - Director: Günter Maurer (SWR)
- 2019: Anatom of the World. The Dane Nicolaus Steno discovered the history of evolution 350 years ago. (BR)
Awards
- 1998 Prix Marulić
- 1999 literature scholarship from the city of Munich
- 1999 Kurt Magnus Prize
- 2002 Bavarian Art Prize in the Literature category
- 2008 Tukan Prize for Serenity
- 2015 Longlist of the German Book Prize with Der Fuchs and Doktor Shimamura
- 2016 Franz Hessel Prize for The Fox and Doctor Shimamura
- 2017 longlist of the German Book Prize with Katie
- 2019 Ernst Hoferichter Prize - acceptance rejected. By rejecting it, she wanted to express her undecided position in the controversy surrounding the cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch , who had been awarded the prize together with Wunnicke.
- 2020 Literature Prize of the City of Munich
- 2020 shortlist of the German Book Prize with The Lady with the Painted Hand
- 2020 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for The Lady with the Painted Hand
- 2020 October: 1st place in the SWR best list for The Lady with the Painted Hand
reception
The novel Katie (2017) was selected as book of the week by SWR in March 2017 . Ulrich Rüdenauer judged: "Christine Wunnicke has created a grotesquely comical novel with Katie , a book full of magic, a literary masterpiece."
Web links
- Literature by and about Christine Wunnicke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christine Wunnicke's website
- Christine Wunnicke in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
- Review of " Der Fuchs und Dr. Shimamura" by Lisette Gebhardt ( literaturkritik.de )
- Review of " Nagasaki, approx. 1642. Novelle" by Lisette Gebhardt ( literaturkritik.de )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2020 shortlist . In: deutscher-buchpreis.de (accessed September 15, 2020).
- ↑ a b Christine Wunnicke: Wunnicke, Christine: Katie - Book of the Week - Literature - SWR2. In: swr.de. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
- ^ A b Antje Weber: Nightshade Woman. When it gets dark, Christine Wunnicke begins to write - about ghost and deception, about science and madness. In: sueddeutsche.de , No. 184, p. R16. August 10, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Christine Wunnicke receives Raabe Prize. Retrieved October 10, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.literaturportal-bayern.de/component/lpbauthors/?view=lpbauthor&pnd=120484323&highlight=WyJ3dW5uaWNrZSJd
- ^ Literature prizes of the Free State of Bavaria. In: km.bayern.de. May 2, 2017, archived from the original on August 3, 2017 ; accessed on August 12, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/archiv/jahr/2015/#tab-longlist
- ↑ Nominated. In: deutscher-buchpreis.de. October 9, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Author Christine Wunnicke rejects the Ernst Hoferichter Prize , br.de, January 21, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2019.
- ↑ https://ru.muenchen.de/2020/147/Christine-Wunnicke-erhaelt-den-Literaturpreis-2020-92230
- ↑ Shortlist German Book Prize 2020. Accessed September 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Award - Raabe Literature Prize for Christine Wunnicke. Retrieved November 29, 2020 (German).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wunnicke, Christine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |