Karin Kusterer

Karin Strauss (* 6. January 1955 in Munich as Karin Kusterer ) is a German ethnologist and writer .

Life

Karin Strauss studied ethnology and Slavic studies at the universities in Munich , Saint Petersburg and Moscow . In 1986 she received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Munich with a thesis on the ethnology of the peoples of Western Siberia . She worked for the Frankfurt Museum of Ethnology and the Eastern Europe Institute in Munich and was involved in organizations for refugee aid during the Bosnian War . Strauss now lives in Germering in Upper Bavaria .

Besides work on ethnology she wrote novels , short stories and children's books . In 1995 and 1998 she was on the list of honor for the Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize , in 1999 she received the Haidhauser Werkstipendium of the Munich Literature Office . In 2014 she received the prize of the "Young Experts" jury at the STÜCK UP! Author days at the Essen theater.

Works

(Published under the name Kusterer)

• 1987: The hunt in the life of the peoples of Western Siberia , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.]
• 1988: … and winter was at midnight , Düsseldorf
• 1989: I don't dream of Russia in German , Stuttgart [u. a.] (together with Julia Richter)
• 1990: Ethnic identity among Germans in the Soviet Union , Munich
• 1994: Home is not just a country , Vienna (together with Edita Dugalić)
• 1997: Are you coming to Bosnia , Vienna (together with Edita Dugalić)
• 1999: Nosedive , Zurich
• 2002: Fairy tale of unbelievable love , Frankfurt am Main

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Kusterer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Karin Strauss