Insa Wilke
Insa Wilke (* 1978 in Bremerhaven ) is a German literary critic and presenter .
life and work
Insa Wilke studied German and history in Göttingen , Rome and Berlin . In 2009 she received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Thomas Brasch . From 2007 to 2010 she taught as a research assistant and as a lecturer at the seminar for German and Dutch philology at the Free University of Berlin in the subject of modern German literature.
Wilke has been planning and moderating cultural events since 2006. From 2010 to 2012 she headed the Literaturhaus Köln . In the cultural program WDR 3 she is one of the moderators of the weekly book show Gutenbergs Welt . Since 2015 she has also moderated the New Darmstadt Talks at the Darmstadt State Theater . Wilke has been the program director of the Mannheim Literature Festival since 2016 , where she succeeded the late Roger Willemsen , whose estate she is managing.
She is also a member of the jury of the SWR best list and since 2017, together with Denis Scheck and Ijoma Mangold, a permanent member of the " SWR worth reading quartet". Since the 42nd Days of German-Language Literature held in July 2018, Insa Wilke has been a member of the jury team for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .
She writes literary reviews for the Tagesspiegel , Die Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others . She was a member of the juries for the Peter Huchel Prize , the Italo Svevo Prize and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .
Wilke lives and works in Berlin .
Awards
- 2014: Alfred Kerr Prize
Fonts (selection)
- Authorship
- Is that a life - the poet Thomas Brasch . Dissertation. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88221-540-3 .
- Editing
- with Thomas Wild: Thomas Brasch. (= Text & criticism . Issue 194). Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-168-6 .
- Frank Mädler: Kopal. Fotohof edition, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-902675-86-6 .
- Report by the fire - conversations, emails and phone calls about the work of Christoph Ransmayr . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-062953-1 .
- The passionate contemporary - On the work of Roger Willemsen . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002422-0 .
- Roger Willemsen: Who we were: Future speech. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397285-6 , review:.
- Roger Willemsen: Music. About an attitude to life . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397383-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Insa Wilke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Insa Wilke: Teaching . In: insawilke.de , 2017, accessed on January 8, 2018.
- ↑ Johannes Breckner: Questions are more important than answers. The Darmstadt conversation will be resumed in the State Theater with the presenter Insa Wilke. In: Darmstädter Echo . September 25, 2015, p. 9.
- ↑ https://www.literaturcafe.de/insa-wilke-beliebeneste-bachmannpreis-jurorin-2020-beste-optik-nora-gomringer/
- ↑ Review of Who we were , Iris Radisch : Speech from the world building down. The last book by the late Roger Willemsen is a dismaying final account. In: The time . December 22, 2016.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wilke, Insa |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremerhaven |