Franziska Sperr
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
Web links
- Literature by and about Franziska Sperr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Franziska Sperr in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Franziska Sperr at perlentaucher.de
- Franziska Sperr , at PEN
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sperr, Franziska |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |