Karen Koehler

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Karen Köhler (2019)

Karen Köhler (* 1974 in Hamburg ) is a German writer , playwright and actress .

Life

Karen Köhler was born in the Hamburg district of Barmbek as the daughter of a fire fighter and a geriatric nurse. After elementary school and high school, she studied drama at the University of Music and Theater in Bern and practiced the profession until 2014, initially in permanent engagements, then as a freelancer. In 2008 she started working as a writer (drama and prose) and as an illustrator

In 2010 she became a member of the Hamburg Authors' Forum and in 2011 received the Hamburg Literature Prize . In 2014 she was invited to read for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and received special attention because she was not allowed to come because of chickenpox . In solidarity with those who were absent, there was a spontaneous, unofficial reading of Karen Köhler's text “Il Comandante” at Klagenfurt's Lendhafen after the first day of reading , which was broadcast live on the Internet. This text is part of the volume of stories We have fished rockets , which reached number 36 on the bestseller list (hardcover fiction) after its publication in the summer of 2014. a. was nominated for the aspects literature prize and has been translated into several languages. As a result, Köhler received various scholarships and stays abroad.

For DNT Weimar , she wrote a series of plays ( hero trilogy ) from 2013 to 2015 , which deals with the topic of right-wing extremism and is now performed in theaters nationwide.

In 2019, Köhler was nominated for the German Screenplay Prize for her script Cowboy & Indianer (co-author: Michael Venus) , which was awarded at the Berlinale 2019 .

For her debut novel Miroloi , which was published by Carl Hanser Verlag in August 2019 and was on the longlist of the German Book Prize 2019, she received various grants, including a. the annual grant from the German Literature Fund .

Karen Köhler lives in Hamburg.

Works

theatre

  • Pornorama. A men's fairy tale. World premiere 2010.
  • How I had an enlightenment under a plane tree, why dying is uncool and why my grandma's bread makes me happy . Premiere 2012.
  • Ramayana. A hero attempt . Premiere Badische Landesbühne 2013.
  • Your heroes - my dreams. Premiere at the National Theater Weimar 2013.
  • Heroes! Or: Why I wear a green cape and fight the shitty world. Premiere at the National Theater Weimar 2014.
  • III heroes: city. Country. Dream. World premiere at the National Theater Weimar 2015.
  • HE. SHE. IT. WP Badische Landesbühne 2016.

prose

Audio book

translation

Release

Awards

  • 2011: Hamburg Literature Prize
  • 2011: Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
  • 2013: Otfried Preußler Children's Piece Prize
  • 2015: Rauris Literature Prize , Salzburg State Government
  • 2015: Promotion Prize for the Schubart Literature Prize
  • 2015: Writer in residence for the Goethe-Institut in Reykjavík
  • 2015: Scholarship holder of the German Embassy in Tirana
  • 2016: Scholarship holder of the Letterenfonds in Amsterdam
  • 2017: Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation
  • 2017: St. Moritz Laudinella Scholarship from the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media
  • 2018: Annual grant from the German Literature Fund
  • 2019: Working grant from the Goethe-Institut Marseille / Literaturhaus La Marelle
  • 2019: Nomination for the German Screenplay Award for Cowboy & Indians
  • 2019: Nomination for the German Book Prize for Miroloi
  • 2020: London grant from the German Literature Fund
  • 2020: Award "Most Beautiful German Books" from the Book Art Foundation for Miroloi

literature

  • 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

Commons : Karen Köhler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poetry worker , Hamburger Abendblatt from March 24, 2011, accessed on September 7, 2019
  2. ^ Karenina Illustration , Hamburg
  3. ^ Forum Hamburger Authors , Karen Köhler
  4. ↑ Il Comandante - full text: Archived copy ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Sandra Kegel: How would the jurors have found that? In: FAZ.net . July 4, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ We fished rockets , preprint , Zeit Online, August 18, 2014
  7. ↑ Book report , We fished rockets - bestseller list hardcover fiction, 2014
  8. ^ Marc Reichwein: Debut volume: Karen Köhler tells of cowboys, Indians and rockets. In: welt.de . August 24, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ "There is mastery at work" wrote Ursula März in Die Zeit, August 21, 2014
  10. ↑ book report , Miroloi - hardcover bestseller list Fiction, 2019
  11. ↑ Reykjavik, city of literature - viewed from the inside .
  12. ^ German Embassy in Albania . Website
  13. ^ Karen Köhler as WiR in Amsterdam . Nederlands Letterenfonds
  14. ↑ Karen Köhler - Authors . Hanser literary publishers
  15. ^ Artists in residence . High altitude training camp for artists , Laudinella (St. Moritz)
  16. ^ Deutscher Literaturfonds - Current - Results of the Board of Trustees meeting on November 6th and 7th, 2017 .
  17. ^ Goethe-Institut Marseille .
  18. ^ German Script Award 2019: Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters announces nominations (VDD) . Nominations, January 10, 2019
  19. ↑ German Book Prize 2019, longlist . Nominations, August 20, 2019, accessed September 7, 2019
  20. ^ German Literature Fund . 10-week scholarship at Queen Mary University , London
  21. ↑ Book Art Foundation . excellent titles 2020, accessed June 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, illustrator, performance artist, playwright and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg