Daniela Krien

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Daniela Krien (born August 25, 1975 in Neu Kaliss ) is a German writer .

Life

Daniela Krien grew up in Jena and in Vogtland . After various professional positions, she moved to Leipzig in 1999 , where she studied cultural studies and communication and media studies. She worked on the editing of a documentary film for the production company amadelio film , which specializes in films about artists. The result was a documentary about the photographer Jock Sturges (“ The Beauty in Us ”, first broadcast: arte 2009). In 2011 Krien published her first novel. She lives in Leipzig and has two children.

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At some point we'll tell each other everything

In September 2011 Krien made his debut with the development novel Sometime We'll Tell Each Other Everything (the title is a quote from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov ). The story takes place in the GDR in the summer of 1990 , so it is located between the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification . Maria, the almost 17-year-old main character, lives with Johannes, her boyfriend, on his parents' three-sided farm, the Brendel-Hof, in a village not far from the inner-German border. Maria skips school. Maria's inner balance is upset when she meets 40-year-old Henner, who lives on one of the neighboring farms. Maria gives in to the resulting amour fou wholeheartedly, but with the end of summer the end of this relationship is approaching. The novel received critical acclaim for its powerful language. An audio book was published with the book, read by the actress Anna Thalbach . The novel was published in 2013 in English, French and Spanish. A total of 14 foreign licenses were sold.

Love in an emergency

The second novel, Die Liebe im Ernstfall (2019) examines the abilities of five contemporary middle-aged women to live in accordance with the current social ideal of family or intimate togetherness. The women make all kinds of decisions that their mothers would have advised against. It is not strongly action-driven, but rather oriented towards "language, rhythm and form". And at the same time it is a city portrait of Leipzig today. The book was received very positively by booksellers and critics at the Leipzig Book Fair. Denis Scheck reviewed: "For a long time I haven't read a novel that is entertaining and psychologically intelligent about the reality of life and love for adults in the Federal Republic of Germany today." In the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Burkhard Müller described the work as a wonderful city novel: "Krien asks as unobtrusively as it is emphatically about the price that the enormously increased degree of personal freedom costs."

Publications

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source for life data: Homepage of the author ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2012 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daniela-krien.de
  2. ↑ Review in Time
  3. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : Daniela Kriens new novel: When relationships become shards , review in the FAZ of March 3, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019
  4. ↑ Friends and rivals. femundo.de, May 30, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ NDR: Daniela Krien conquers the bestseller list. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ WDR: WDR 2 book tip from Denis Scheck: Daniela Krien - Love in an emergency. June 9, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Burkhard Müller: Paula, Judith, Brida, Malika, Jorinde . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 30, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Krien, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH New Kaliss