Jackie Thomae

Jackie Thomae (* 1972 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German journalist and writer .

The advice book A Woman - A Book , written with Heike Blümner, became a bestseller. The first novel Moments of Clarity was published in 2015 . In 2017 she was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition .

2019 came with the novel Thomae brothers on the shortlist of the German Book Prize . The story follows two very different brothers of an African father from their childhood in the GDR to London, Paris and South America. The book prize jury praised the novel as a “very exciting story”, located in an American narrative tradition, and for its existential questions and topics that it “easily” addressed. In 2020 she will receive the Düsseldorf Literature Prize for the novel .

Jackie Thomae lived in Leipzig until 1989 and since then in Berlin.

Works

• One woman - one book. (with Heike Blümner). Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-866156-52-4 .
• Let's face it: The book for everyone who gets older (with Heike Blümner). Blanvalet, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-764503-64-2 .
• You have to celebrate the wrinkles as they fall: the book for everyone who gets older . Blanvalet, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442379-59-0 .
• Moments of clarity . Novel. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-446249-43-1 .
• Brothers . Novel . Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26415-1 .

literature

• Tobias Becker: Thinking in black and white. Jackie Thomae tells about young black people in Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , August 17, 2019, p. 104 .
• Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jackie Thomae in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jackie Thomae in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jackie Thomae at perlentaucher.de
• Jackie Thomae in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Moritz Müller-Schwefe: Debut. Relentless, hilarious: the novel "Moments of Clarity" by Jackie Thomae: love struggles with wit and timing . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 8, 2015, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 14 ( taz.de [accessed on August 18, 2019]).
2. ↑ orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.
3. ↑ Brothers . In: deutscher-buchpreis.de (accessed on September 17, 2019).
4. ↑ Jackie Thomae excellent. In: sueddeutsche.de. February 26, 2020, accessed February 27, 2020 .