Gila Funny
Gila Lustiger (born April 27, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer .
Life
Gila Lustiger is the daughter of the German-Jewish historian Arno Lustiger (1924–2012). In 1981 she went to Israel , where she studied German and comparative literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1982 to 1986 . From 1983 to 1986 she was also a lecturer for German literature and children's literature in Tel-Aviv . In 1987 she moved to Paris with the writer Emmanuel Moses , where she is still based today. Until 1989 she worked as a journalist for the German-language program of Radio France Internationale and the ZDF . Since 1989 she has worked as an editor for various French publishers . She has also published novels since 1995. In 1997 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . She is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .
In her first novel, The Inventory, Gila Lustiger dealt with the fate of the Jews during the Third Reich . From a beautiful world is a marriage novel told from a female perspective . With the autobiographical novel So are we , in which she describes the story of a Jewish family in post-war Germany, Lustiger achieved a public success; the book was on the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2005 . Her crime and social novel The Guilt of Others became a bestseller in 2015. It is primarily about solving a murder of a student that occurred decades ago; criminal entanglements between unscrupulous politicians, lobbyists and large corporations become clear. In the same year she received the Robert Gernhardt Prize for her novel project Die Entronnenen . In 2016 Lustiger was awarded the Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize and the Horst Bingel Prize for Literature for her essay Concussion - On Terror , and in 2017 she received the Stefan Andres Prize , especially for The Guilt of Others and the Essay Concussion . From October 2017 on, Lustiger will be the first city clerk in the Ruhr for one year .
Works
- The inventory. Berlin 1995.
- From a beautiful world. Berlin 1997.
- So are we. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-7859-8 .
- Mr. Grinberg & Co. Berlin 2008.
- Mathilda & Co., A story of happiness. Bloomberg, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-5299-5 .
- What are you thinking about now Novel. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1017-9 .
- The fault of others. Novel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8333-1043-0 .
- Vibration. About the terror. Essay. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8270-1332-3 .
literature
- Christian Wiese: Funny, Gila. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 354-356.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gila Lustiger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gila Lustiger: Many French feel left behind by politics . Badische-zeitung.de , February 26, 2015, interview with Bettina Schulte.
- berlinverlag.de: Gila Lustiger ( Berlin Verlag )
- bpb.de: In Israel you live like on a volcano : Interview with the Federal Agency for Civic Education on the subject of Israel, June 10, 2008 (accessed on June 22, 2012)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Gila Lustiger at perlentaucher.de
- Gila Lustiger ( memento of December 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Berlin International Literature Festival
- France after the EU elections ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): Interview with Gila Lustiger on Deutschlandfunk (May 29, 2014)
- Readings with Gila Lustiger to listen to and download at Lesungen.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gila Lustiger becomes city clerk Ruhr , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, July 26, 2017, accessed on July 26, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funnier, Gila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |