Gabriele Weingartner
Gabriele Weingartner (born December 2, 1948 in Edenkoben ) is a German journalist and author who prefers to write short stories , novels and essays . After two decades in St. Martin in the south of the Palatinate , she has been living in Berlin since November 2008 .
education and profession
Weingartner spent her school days in boarding schools, including in Frauenchiemsee Abbey and in St. Moritz , Switzerland , until she passed her Abitur at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . Weingartner then studied German and history in Berlin and Cambridge (Massachusetts) .
Weingartner works as a freelance culture journalist and literary critic and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . After numerous literary publications in anthologies , her first novel ( The Snow White Coffin ) was published in 1996 , her second ( Bleiweiß ) in 2000 and her third ( Fräulein Schnitzler ) in 2006 . In 2010 the novel Tanzstrasse was published.
In another book (2004) she and her partner, the artist Volker Heinle, presented nineteen authors from Rhineland-Palatinate in the form of home stories .
Works
Individual publications
- The Snow White Coffin , novel, illustrated by Volker Heinle. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1996, ISBN 3-930008-31-9
- Mrs. Cassirer's chest , short stories. Sternvogel, Berlin 1999
- White lead , novel. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46606-0
- The Brody folks , stories. Series Edition Artist House , Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-88423-239-8
- Miss Schnitzler , Roman. Haymon Verlag , Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 3-85218-499-1
- Dance street , novel. Limbus, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-902534-32-3
- Villa Klestiel , Roman. Limbus, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 3-902534-50-8
- The dogs in the basement , novel. Limbus, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-99039-020-7
- Leon Saint Clair's timeless restlessness . Novel. Limbus, Innsbruck 2019. ISBN 978-3-99039-155-6 .
Editing
- Foreign in our midst , Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook for Literature 1, Ed. GW, with Michael Bauer and Sigfrid Gauch . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-86088-437-9
- On the way , Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook for Literature 4, ed. GW, with Sigfrid Gauch and Josef Zierden . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-86099-459-X
- Writing desk. Life. Literary snapshots , eds. GW and Volker Heinle. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-86099-504-9
Reviews
- The poet's melancholy. In the footsteps of Paul Celan's poetry , on Jean Firges : Black Sun Melancholy. Melancholy as a creative and destructive force in the life and poetry of Paul Celan, in Die Rheinpfalz , May 5, 2012
Awards
- 1991: Limburg Literature Prize of the City of Bad Dürkheim , 2nd place
- 1993: Amsterdam grant from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1996: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
- 1998: 1st scholarship in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
- 2000: Gerty Spies Literature Prize from the Rhineland-Palatinate State Center for Civic Education
- 2000: Special award for " Book of the Year " from the Association of German Writers in Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2001: 2nd scholarship in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
- 2005: "Book of the Year" award from the Association of German Writers in Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2008: Hermann Sinsheimer plaque from the city of Freinsheim
- 2010: Burgundy grant from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2013: Nomination for the Döblin Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriele Weingartner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gabriele Weingartner's website
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weingartner, Gabriele |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Edenkoben |