Claudia Scherer
Claudia Scherer (* 1954 in Wangen im Allgäu ) is a German poet and author who also devotes herself to dialect poetry in her lyrical work . She has published poems, stories, short stories, a novel and reviews in the Berlin daily taz , in the magazines Allmende and Nachtcafé as well as in anthologies.
Career
She worked as a bookseller, studied German and art education at the University of Education in Reutlingen as a scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation , and was photo editor of the taz.
Scherer has been living in her native city of Wangen again since 1993, where she worked as a semi-volunteer at the Städtische Galerie until 2015. She is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS), the "International Dialect Institute", Innsbruck / Vienna (IDI) and the Mundart-in-der-Schule project . From 2005 to 2015 she was a member of the Meersburg authors' group . Exhibitions of photographs, collages and paintings in the region.
In 2007, 2011 and 2019 she received scholarships from the German Writers' Support Group in Baden-Württemberg and in 2013 and 2015 scholarships from the Geschwister Mohr Foundation.
Prices
In 2011 Claudia Scherer won 3rd prize at the 9th Feldkircher Poetry Prize .
Works
- Seiteschteche. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2002, ISBN 3-933765-12-9 (dialect poems)
- love game. Poems. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-421-05763-X
- streaked. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2005 (dialect poems)
- cultured pearl. Hecht, Hard 2006, ISBN 3-85298-137-9 ( short stories)
- The brevity. A transcript. Hecht, Hard 2006, ISBN 978-3-85298-143-7 (novel)
- hybrids. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2009, ISBN 978-3-933765-46-8 (poems)
- Every blink. The fiction of memory. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2014, ISBN 978-3-933765-74-1 (short stories)
- impetuous. Poems in standard German. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2015, ISBN 978-3-933765-81-9 (poems)
- Secret of normalcy. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2016, ISBN 978-3-933765-85-7 (narrative prose)
- "The greeting - narration in concert pitch", edition miolonga, 2018 ISBN 978-3-00-059509-7 (narration)
- "Heimat poetisches Wunder", Ed. Claudia Scherer, The own in the foreign and the foreign in the own, edition miolonga, 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062853-5
- Private prints in artistic design as well as a dialect CD
- Publications in anthologies and literary magazines
- New poetry album . Issues 02/2012, 01/2013, 02/2013
- The gateway to never , narrative prose, edition miolonga, 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-064208-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Claudia Scherer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Claudia Scherer's website
- Short biography and reviews of works by Claudia Scherer at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Lyrik der Gegenwart 14" Feldkircher Lyrikpreis 2011. (Ed.) Erika Kronabitter, Edition Art Science, A-St. Wolfgang-Wien, ISBN 978-3-902157-96-6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherer, Claudia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-speaking author with a vernacular background |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wangen in the Allgäu |