Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born March 12, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German writer .
Life
Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist , philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias . Your paternal grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner .
Erpenbeck attended an advanced secondary school in East Berlin, where she graduated from high school in 1985 . She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder . This was followed by a practical year as a prop master at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) and as a dresser at the Berlin State Opera.
From 1988 to 1990 she studied theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
In 1990 she switched to studying music theater directing (with Ruth Berghaus and Peter Konwitschny, among others ) at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . In 1993 she assisted Heiner Müller in the production of Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival .
After successfully completing her studies, she started working as a director in Germany and Austria in 1997. At the same time, she started a career as a writer. In 1999 her debut "Story of the Old Child" was released. It followed u. a. the novels "Heimsuchung" (2008), "Aller Tage Abend" (2012) and "Gehen, geht ,iegen" (2015), for which she received numerous prizes at home and abroad, including the Thomas Mann Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (renamed Man Booker International Prize since 2016)
Jenny Erpenbeck's works have been translated into 30 languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Danish, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Finnish .
Jenny Erpenbeck is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , the Berlin Academy of the Arts , the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and the PEN Center Germany .
In 2017 she was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .
Erpenbeck lives with the conductor Wolfgang Bozic and their son in Berlin.
Works
prose
- Story of the old child . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0784-9 .
- Trinkets . Stories. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8218-0696-6 .
- Dictionary . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-0742-3 .
- Visitation . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-5773-2 .
- Things that go away . Galiani, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86971-004-4 .
- Every day evening . Knaus Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8135-0369-2 .
- Go, go, go . Knaus, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0370-8 .
- Not a novel. Texts and speeches 1992 to 2018. Penguin, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-328-60029-9 .
Drama
- Cats have seven lives . Premiere: January 30th, 2000, Vereinigte Bühnen Graz; published by Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000 ISBN 3-8218-0785-7 , as well as by Verlag der Authors ISBN 978-3-88661-339-7
- Exercise for a sinner . Premiere: March 27, 2003, Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Dirty night . Published by Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main, 2015, ISBN 978-3-88661-339-7
- Lot, libretto for an opera in German by Giogio Battistelli Premiere: May 28, 2017 Hanover State Opera 2016; Sales Casa Ricordi Milano
Productions
- 1997 Poems from the "Hauspostille" (Brecht), Berliner Ensemble
- 1998 "Hansel and Gretel" (Humperdinck), Graz Opera House
- 2000 "Katzen Have Siebel Leben" (premiere), Schauspielhaus Graz "Schauspieldirektor / Apotheker" (Mozart / Haydn), Landestheater St.Pölten "Cabaret" (Kander), Schauspielhaus Linz
- 2001 "Expectation / Duke Bluebeard's Castle", (Schönberg / Bartòk), Graz Opera House
- 2002 "L'Orfeo", (Monteverdi). Theater Aachen
- 2003 "Acis and Galathea" (Handel), Berlin State Opera
- 2004 "Orpheus in the Underworld" (Offenbach / Hacks), Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
- 2005 "Zaide" (Mozart / Erpenbeck), Nuremberg Opera (Markgrafentheater Erlangen)
Awards and recognitions
- 2001: Prize of the jury at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt
- 2001: several residency grants (Ledig Rowohlt House in New York; Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf )
- 2004: GEDOK Literature Prize
- 2006: Winner of the Inselschreiber scholarship on Sylt
- 2008: Solothurn Literature Prize
- 2008: Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
- 2008: Hertha Koenig Literature Prize
- 2009: Prize of the LiteraTour Nord
- 2010: Literature Prize of the Eisenhüttenstadt Steel Foundation
- 2013: Schubart Literature Prize
- 2013: Evangelical Book Prize for Every Day Evening
- 2013: Joseph Breitbach Prize
- 2013: Thomas Valentin Literature Prize
- 2013: Professor of Poetics at the University of Bamberg
- 2013: Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg
- 2014: European Literature Prize (Netherlands) for Every Day Evening
- 2014: Hans Fallada Prize
- 2014: Heinrich Heine guest lecturer
- 2015: "Go, went, gone" on the shortlist of the German book award
- 2015: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days , trans. by Susan Bernofsky
- 2016: Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
- 2016: Thomas Mann Prize
- 2016: Shortlist of the International DUBLIN Literary Award with The End of Days, translated by Susan Bernofsky
- 2017: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2018: "Go. Went, Gone" New York Times Notable Book List 2018
- 2019: Usedomer Literature Prize
- 2019: Premi Libreter (Catalonia) for "Go, went, went" (Catalan translation Marta Pera Cucurell)
- 2019: "Visitation" (in English translation) on the Guardian list "100 Best Books of the 21st Century"
literature
- Heike Bartel, Elizabeth Boa (Eds.): Pushing at Boundaries . Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck. Amsterdam 2006, ISBN 978-90-420-2051-1 (English).
- Maria Behre: 'Give us a place' - becoming political on Oranienplatz. Jenny Erpenbeck's novel 'Go, went, gone' (2015), read with Hannah Arendt's political philosophy . In: Journal for Didactics of Philosophy and Ethics (ZDPE) , vol. 39, 2017, issue 1 - Markus Tiedemann (ed.): Hannah Arendt , pp. 58–65.
- Miranda Chorus: Biographical references in Jenny Erpenbeck's drama , Master's thesis Univ. Nijmegen, 2016.
- Wiebke Eden: Expressing oneself with words was always the next thing . In: Don't be afraid of big feelings . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15474-X , pp. 13-32 (interview).
- "Truth and Deception" - Contributions to the work of Jenny Erpenbeck, edited by Friedhelm Marx and Julia Schöll (eds.), Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1562-4
- Elisabeth Krimmer “The Representation of Wartime Rape in Julia Franck's Die Mittagsfrau and Jenny Erpenbeck's Visitation ”; Nancy Nobile "The Legacy of Romanticism in Jenny Erpenbeck´s Heimsuchung " in: Gegenwartsliteratur, a Germanistic yearbook, 14/2015 - edited by Paul Michael Lützeler, Erin McGlothlin, Jennifer Kapczynski, Stauffenburg Verlag Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95809- 641-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Jenny Erpenbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jenny Erpenbeck at perlentaucher.de
- Interpretations and list of works in the author's lexicon of the University of Duisburg-Essen / Faculty of Humanities - German Studies
- Audio recordings: Jenny Erpenbeck reads from "Aller Tage Abend", "Heimslassung" and "Trand" for listening and downloading on Lesungen.net
Individual evidence
- ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Academy - Members - Jenny Erpenbeck. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ 16. Akademie der Künste, Journal der Künste 04, Nov. 2017 ISSN 2510-5221
- ↑ Member entry by Jenny Erpenbeck at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017
- ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Travel and Dates / Award ceremony on the Day of German Unity. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Portrait at literaturport.de , accessed on June 17, 2016
- ^ FAZ from April 4, 2017
- ^ Ingeborg Bachmann Prize: The authors at the Days of German-Language Literature 2001. In: ORF Kärnten. July 2, 2001, Retrieved May 28, 2009 .
- ^ Inselschreiber: Jenny Erpenbeck: Prize Winner 2006. (No longer available online.) In: Kunstraum-Sylt Quelle. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007 ; Retrieved July 10, 2008 .
- ^ ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH - November 1, 2010 - Awarding of the Steel Literature Prize 2010
- ↑ Press release of the city of Aalen from December 4, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on April 17, 2018
- ^ Joseph Breitbach Prize
- ^ Heinrich Heine guest lecturer at the Lüneburg Leuphana University
- ^ Jenny Erpenbeck's The End of the Days wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. irishtimes.com, May 27,2015
- ↑ Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize (press release on March 1, 2016, award ceremony on November 6, 2016)
- ↑ Jenny Erpenbeck awarded the Thomas Mann Prize , in Kieler Nachrichten of September 18, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erpenbeck, Jenny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Democratic Republic |