Isabelle Lehn

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Isabelle Lehn at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2016

Isabelle Lehn (* 1979 in Bonn ) is a German writer and philologist .

life and work

Lehn was born in Bonn in 1979. She studied general rhetoric, ethnology and education in Tübingen and Leicester . In 2011 she received her doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen with a thesis on rhetorical persuasion mechanisms in advertising. Lehn completed her studies at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , where she worked as a lecturer and guest lecturer from 2010 to 2013 and has been researching literary writing processes at the GDR Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" (1955–1993) since 2013 .

Isabelle Lehn writes prose, essays and short stories, which have received multiple awards and various grants. In 2011 she was a finalist at the 19th Open Mike . In 2014 she won the PROSANOVA audience award . In 2016 she won the Edit Essay Prize and, at the invitation of Meike Feßmann at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , read the extract from the novel Tie Two Birds Together , which was shortlisted by the jury. In July 2016 her debut novel Binde Zwei Vögel was published by Eichborn Verlag . The 256-page novel Spring Awakening (2019) is an autofiction about a woman, whose name is like the author, who tries to cover up her depression with an intention to become pregnant and try to save an existing relationship.

Isabelle Lehn lives in Leipzig .

Awards (selection)

Works

Standalone publications

  • Spring awakening. Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397394-5 .
  • together with Sascha Macht and Katja Stopka: Learning to write in socialism. The Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher". Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3232-4 .
  • Tie two birds together. Novel. Eichborn Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8479-0612-4 .
  • Advertising rhetoric: basics of a rhetorical advertising theory. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-86764-305-4 .

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophia Haug: Book review: Advertising is a rhetorical practice - Isabelle Lehn examines the "rhetoric of advertising". Language for Form - www.designrhetorik.de, March 1, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Isabelle Lehn, Sascha Macht, Katja Stopka: The Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" (1955–1993). Literary writing processes in the field of tension between cultural-political appropriation, educational experimentation and poetic obstinacy. Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig , January 1, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The finalists of the 19th open mike. Poetry House , accessed July 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Hannah Lühmann: Prosanova Festival: Where are the German studies bunnies here? ZEIT ONLINE, June 2, 2014, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Excellent! Young German essays. (No longer available online.) Bavaria 2 , April 28, 2016, archived from the original on July 30, 2016 .;
  6. ↑ Isabelle Lehn - Tie two birds together. Eichborn Verlag, July 14, 2016, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Critics' talk : About the literature by Angela Krauss and Isabelle Lehn , Deutschlandfunk , published and accessed June 10, 2019.
  8. ↑ Heinrich Heine scholarships. In: Website of the Lüneburg Literature Office. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 2017: Isabelle Lehn, literature award winner. City of Aalen, October 12, 2017, accessed on December 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Scholarship holders 2011. Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Funding - Archive 2010. Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehn, Isabelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn