Katharina Born

Katharina Born

Katharina Born (born May 27, 1973 in Berlin ) is a German writer , journalist and editor .

life and work

Katharina Born grew up in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district ( Lower Saxony ) and in Berlin. She studied in Brussels and Washington DC (history and journalism), Berlin and Paris (modern and contemporary history as well as general and comparative literary studies) and graduated from the University of Paris XIII (Villetaneuse) with a Masters II in publishing politics. She completed her journalistic training at the Berlin School of Journalism .

Since 1996 Katharina Born has worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers, magazines and radio stations ( taz , Deutschlandradio Kultur , Jüdische Allgemeine, etc.). Long periods of work took her to St. Petersburg, the Crimea and Kiev, among others. Since 2001 she has been translating and working as a freelance editor in Paris.

Twenty-five years after the early death of her father, the writer Nicolas Born , she edited his poems from the estate in autumn 2004. The volume reached number 1 on the SWR best list and was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize the following year as the most interesting new publication in the field of poetry . The letters and some correspondence from Nicolas Born, among others with Peter Handke , Hermann Peter Piwitt , Günter Kunert and Friedrich Christian Delius , she published in 2007.

In 2009 she successfully took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. The short story Fifty-fifty , which was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize there , is part of her debut novel Bad Society , which was published in spring 2011 by Carl Hanser Verlag .

Works

• Bad society. A family story. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23628-8
• Bad society. A family story. (Paperback) Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-35896-1

Awards

• 2007: Ruhr Literature Prize (together with Nicolas Born)
• 2008: 2nd Prize of the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize of the Reading Foundation for a review in the Jüdischen Allgemeine
• 2008: Georg K. Glaser Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for the story Melsbacher Hohl
• 2009: Ernst Willner Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt for the story Fifty-fifty

Web links

• Literature by and about Katharina Born in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about Katharina Born on the homepage of the Bachmann Prize 2009
• www.nicolas-born.de - Homepage of the Nicolas Born community of heirs
• The father's inheritance. The writer Katharina Born , Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 22, 2011