Heike Geissler

Heike Geißler (born April 5, 1977 in Riesa , Saxony ) is a German writer.

Life

Heike Geißler grew up in Riesa and Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz . In 2001 she received the Alfred Döblin Award for the novel Rosa , published a year later . On the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt Heike Geissler took part of 2008.

She lives as a freelance writer in Leipzig and has two children.

Awards

• 2001: Alfred Döblin sponsorship award
• 2003: Residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2004: Residency at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 2007: DAAD scholarship in Arkhangelsk , Russia
• 2008: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2016/2017: German Academy Rome Villa Massimo

Publications

• Pink. Novel . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-421-05605-6 .
  • French edition: Rosa. Novel , translated by Nicole Taubes, Albin Michel, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-226-17222-X .
  • Croatian edition: Rosa , translated by Romana Perečinec, Fraktura, Zaprešić 2006, ISBN 953-7052-80-X .
• Nothing tragic . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-04219-4 .
• Emma and horse berry . With illustrations by Simone Waßermann, Lubok Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-941601-09-3 .
• Since 2010 you can read the issue series gaps .
• Seasonal work . Spector Books, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-944669-66-3 .
  • English language edition: Seasonal Associate . Translated by Katy Derbyshire. Semiotext (e), New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-63590-036-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heike Geißler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Portrait of Heike Geissler, Deutschlandradio Kultur
• Seasonal Associate Review in The New Yorker (November 19, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florian Kessler : Amazon terminus. Heike Geissler's book "Saisonarbeit" tells of the lack of freedom in today's work. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 257, 8./9. November 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 20.
2. ↑ German Academy Rome Villa Massimo: Portrait of Heike Geißler ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.