Franziska Gerstenberg

Franziska Gerstenberg (born January 22, 1979 in Dresden ) is a German writer .

Franziska Gerstenberg reads in puns 2016 from their narratives So long ago, certainly no longer true .

Life

Franziska Gerstenberg's father is the Green politician Karl-Heinz Gerstenberg .

After graduating from high school, she studied prose, poetry and drama / new media at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig from 1998 to 2002 and was co-editor of the literary magazine EDIT for two years . She received u. a. the residence scholarship in the Villa Concordia in Bamberg (2005) and the Heinrich Heine scholarship in 2007. In March 2004 her first book was published, the short story book Wie viel Vögel . Her debut was preceded by minor publications in various magazines and in some anthologies . Her second book was published in spring 2007 under the title Such Gifts and contains 14 stories. In 2012 Gerstenberg's first novel was published with the title Spiel mit ihr, in 2016 the short story volume So long ago, certainly no longer true .

Gerstenberg lives in Dresden.

Awards

1998: Winner of the Meetings of Young Authors
1999: Winner of the MDR Literature Prize
2001: Residence grant from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
2002: Working grant from the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art
2003: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2004: Residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
In 2004 she received the Nicolas Born Prize of the State of Lower Saxony for her debut .
2005/06: one-year residency at Villa Concordia in Bamberg
Such gifts were awarded the Hermann Hesse Prize in 2007 .
2007 Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
2008 residency at Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano
2010/11 scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude
2010: Residence grant from József Attila Kör in Budapest
2013: Promotion Prize of the Lessing Prize
2016: Saxon Literature Prize for So long ago, certainly no longer true

Works

How much birds , stories, Schöffling-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 3-89561-340-1
Fortune cookies , Fränkischer Tag Verlag, Bamberg, 2006, in: Edition Villa Concordia: Upper Franconia reads , H. 13 ISBN 3-936897-30-1
Such gifts , stories, Schöffling-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89561-341-8
Such gifts (audio book: Inga Busch reads Franziska Gerstenberg), stories, Eichborn Lido Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2007 in: The @ storytellers ISBN 978-3-8218-5461-8
Playing with her , Roman, Schöffling-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, ISBN 978-3895613425 .
Music , short story, literature quickie, Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942212-72-4 .
So long ago, certainly no longer true , stories, Schöffling-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2016, ISBN 978-3-89561-343-2

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personal data
SURNAME	Gerstenberg, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerstenberg, Franziska Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden