Katharina Bendixen

Katharina Bendixen (* 1981 in Leipzig ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

After a childhood in Laos and attending the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Leipzig, Bendixen studied book studies and Hispanic studies in Alicante and Leipzig , published in literary magazines and anthologies. a. in the bay window , drafts , clearings , typist , Macondo . She lives as an author, translator and journalist in Leipzig and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . She is the prose editor of the literary magazine poet and also writes in the daily media, so regularly in the daily newspaper Junge Welt , also in Neues Deutschland or the Thüringer Allgemeine .

Awards (selection)

• 2005: Debut Prize of the Poetenladen
• 2005: Finalist at the 13th Open Mike
• 2006: Friedrich Rochlitz Prize for Art Criticism
• 2007: Erostepost Literature Prize
• 2007: Writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
• 2008: Würth Literature Prize
• 2008: Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize
• 2008: Scholarship holder of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
• 2009: Vienna Workshop Prize
• 2009: Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2012: Scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
• 2013: Scholarship from Stadtmühle Willisau / Switzerland
• 2014: Scholarship holder at the József-Attila-Kör in Budapest
• 2014: title city ​​clerk and scholarship as well as stay of 4 months in Erfurt
• 2014: Kranichstein Literature Prize
• 2016: writer-in-residence in Pristina / Kosovo
• 2017: Scholarship holder in Heinrich-Heine-Haus in Lüneburg
• 2017: Scholarship holder of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2017: Ms. Ava Literature Prize
• 2018: Scholarship holder at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2019: Scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Eckernförde
• 2021: Scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop

Publications

• The whiskey bottle tree , Poetenladen, Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940691-07-1
• With pleasure, if you want , Poetenladen, Leipzig, 2012, ISBN 978-3-940691-32-3
• I see everything, Poetenladen, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-940691-77-4
• My white fox , Poetenladen, Leipzig 2019. ISBN 978-3-940691-97-2

Children's books:

• Zorro, the Pug - Adventure in the Bammelwald , Loewe, Bindlach, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7855-8360-9
• Zorro, the pug - The hero from the summer lake , Loewe, Bindlach, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7855-8423-1
• Zorro, the Pug - The Secret Treasure Island, Loewe, Bindlach, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7855-8490-3

As editor:

• Squeaky days, nights as smooth as glass. Big city stories. Leipzig 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Katharina Bendixen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Katharina Bendixen
• Bendixen in the poet's shop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ translated books at Arena Verlag