Franziska Sperr

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Franziska Sperr (* 1949 in Munich ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Franziska Sperr studied Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated with a Magister Artium. Between 1980 and 1987 she worked as an editor at L'80. Journal of literature and politics . From 1998 to 2001 she was press spokeswoman for the cultural advisor Julian Nida-Rümelin in Munich's local government . Since then she has been working again as a freelance writer, journalist and translator. Sperr has been a member of the German PEN Center since 2005 . She was elected its Vice President in 2013 and is its Writers in Exile Commissioner.

Sperr has published a novel biography about Franziska zu Reventlow , a novel and a volume of stories, as well as a number of feature articles. She translates from English and French, according to the book on the role of women in India by the American journalist Elisabeth Bumiller .

Sperr is married to Johano Strasser , has two grown-up children with him and lives on Lake Starnberg .

Works

  • The smallest fetter presses me unbearably. The life of Franziska zu Reventlow . Biography of a novel, Goldmann, Munich 1995
  • Mute with happiness . Stories, Knaus, Munich 2005
  • The blackbird's territory . Roman, Fahrenheit Verlag, 2008
  • Munich. A city in biographies . MERIAN portraits published by Travel House Media 2012

Translations

  • Elisabeth Bumiller: You should have a hundred sons ... women's life in India . From the American. by Franziska Sperr. Munich: Knesebeck 1992

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