Johanna Straub (author)

Johanna Straub (born February 5, 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German author and filmmaker .

She studied general rhetoric, comparative literature and empirical cultural studies in Tübingen and is one of the initiators of the Tübinger Kurz- und Kleinphilmnacht . She later headed a sales department for documentary films in Leipzig . In 2002 Straub went to Berlin and started his own business.

Works

Novels

• The zebra has black stripes so you can see the white ones better . Liebeskind Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-935890-41-0
• The best thing about it . Liebeskind Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-935890-69-4

Anthologies

• Routine , In: Suspicious Friends, Scherz Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3502520085
• The sum of the parts , In: heart and pain. Berlin ten-minute stories, Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3897735460
• Evolution , In: poet (mag) 1, Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-938543-18-4
• Amanda Manichmal , In: Mind Games . Dialogues between painting and contemporary literature, Achilla Presse, Stollhamm-Butjadingen 2008, ISBN 978-3940350077
• Ytong , In: In search of the inspiration of the shore, Edition Kunstbox in Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3701311477

Movies

• Nut pieces . Episodic documentary, Germany 2006, 58 min, Digibeta - conception, direction, production
• Doner kebabuja . Short film, Germany 2004, 13 min, 16mm - script, direction, editing, production (together with Gürkan Önal)

Awards

• 2009 Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg

Web links

• Literature by and about Johanna Straub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Johanna Straub at Literaturport
• Love child