Daniela Dröscher

Daniela Dröscher (2019)

Daniela Dröscher (born June 4, 1977 in Munich ) is a German writer .

Life

Daniela Dröscher grew up in Rhineland-Palatinate. After studying German , philosophy and English in Trier and London , she completed her doctorate in media studies at the University of Potsdam with a thesis on Yōko Tawada's poetology . She published in magazines and anthologies. From 2008 to 2010 she studied drama writing at UniT Graz .

Martin Halter called her first novel Die Lichter der George Psalmanazar , a double- novel biography about Samuel Johnson and the "oriental fraudster" George Psalmanazar , in the FAZ of September 18, 2009, a "baroque cabinet of curiosities full of strange fata, heartbreaking melancholy and cleverness." She is a member in the PEN Center Germany .

Dröscher lives with her family in Berlin .

Awards

• 2005 Essay Prize from the Junge Akademie Berlin
• 2005 Schiller Essay Prize from the City of Weimar
• 2008 scholarship holder of the LCB's Prosa workshop
• 2008 participation in the Klagenfurt literature course
• 2009 Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis
• 2009 Anna Seghers Prize
• 2012 Bayern 2-Wortspiele-Preis
• 2012 Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize
• 2012 Koblenz Literature Prize for The Lights of George Psalmanazar
• 2013 Scholarship from the Film and Radio Play Funding NRW
• 2014 residency at Villa Decius Krakow
• 2017 Robert Gernhardt Prize for her novel project Everyone who knows me
• 2018 working grant from the German Literature Fund , duration of twelve months and 2,000 euros per month
• 2019 one-year scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe

Publications

Pieces

• Hundred Flowers (premiere directed by Eva-Maria Baumeister; Staatstheater Mainz 2009)
• HIMMELANGST (world premiere directed by Lilli Hoepner; Schauspielhaus Bochum 2009)
• "As if I were paper" (Premiere directed by Matthias Folz; Children's and Youth Theater Speyer 2010)
• "Anyone who drinks from me becomes a deer. A Wagner project based on Tristan and Isolde " (premiere directed by Eva-Maria Baumeister; Theater der Keller, 2011)
• "Madame Bovary" (WP directed by Christian Weise, Ballhaus Ost Berlin 2011)
• "Married and Eellose" (premiere directed by Hannes Hametner, Theater Koblenz 2013)
• "Ghosts in Göttingen" (Premiere directed by Eva-Maria Baumeister, Young Theater Göttingen 2014)
• "Parsifal - one of us, with us, among us" (a project by kidnap someone and make him happy , Junge Theater Göttingen 2014)

Novels

• The lights of George Psalmanazar . Berlin Verlag 2009
• Pola . Berlin Verlag 2012

stories

• Gloria. Narratives . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0907-4 .

Others

• Schiller laughs or at the desire to become an Indian . In: language-bound . Issue 3 (2007)
• The widows . In: Polar . Issue 2 (2006)
• What does she want with rabbits? In: Perspectives . Issue 58 (2008)
• Gloria , Bella triste , number 22, Hildesheim 2008, ISSN  1618-1727 .
• Happy rooms. Essay , BELLA triste number 26, Hildesheim 2010, ISSN  1618-1727 .
• Show your class. The history of my social origin , essay, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-00431-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Author profile at Verlag Hoffmann und Campe , accessed September 14, 2018
2. ↑ Prize winner 2012 , City of Speyer, accessed September 14, 2018
3. ^ Author profile Piper Verlag, accessed September 14, 2018
4. ↑ Author profile , literaturport, accessed September 14, 2018
5. ^ Robert Gernhardt Prize to Maike Wetzel and Daniela Dröscher. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 16, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2020 . 
6. ↑ German Literature Fund awards funding , boersenblatt.net May 22, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018
7. ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
8. ↑ "Show your class" - a radically subjective look at your own origins , DeRadio Audio (mp3), accessed September 14, 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniela Dröscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Daniela Dröscher's work at Literaturport
• Dröscher at Perlentaucher
• Dröscher in the poet's shop
• Dröscher at Schaefersphilippen
• Dröscher read in the stories Gloria and Die Lichter der George Psalmanazar himself