Kathrin Aehnlich

Kathrin Aehnlich (born October 9, 1957 in Leipzig ) is a German writer . She writes stories, radio plays, radio features and makes documentaries.

Life

Kathrin Aehnlich first studied at the engineering school for civil engineering in Leipzig and worked for three years in a construction company before studying at the "Johannes R. Becher" Institute for Literature in Leipzig from 1985 to 1988 . She then worked as an editor for the independent weekly newspaper Die Andere Zeitung and since 1992 in the feature editorial team of the MDR for Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

Her novel Alle die, die Löffelstöre was required reading for the final exams in 2009 at Baden-Württemberg secondary schools.

Kathrin Aehnlich is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

Books

• How Mrs. Krause invented the GDR . Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95614-316-8
• When the whales go ashore. Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-859-3 .
• Rome New York Markkleeberg - on being on the move. Arche Literatur Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7160-2657-1 .
• Birthday party. In: The wall is gone. A reader. Edition chrismon, 2009, ISBN 978-3-938704-84-4 .
• Women in the GDR. In: GDR. A distant country 1949-1990 (photo book). Bucher, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7658-1620-8 .
• Everyone dies, including the paddlefish. Zurich / Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-2366-2 .
• Aunt Barbel's liberation. In: The West Package. Ch.LinksVerlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-221-2 .
• When I grow up, I fly to the stars. Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-492-25460-8 .
• Dream time. Hall / S. 1988, ISBN 3-7421-0226-5 .

Audio book

• The secret of the Christmas stollen. Arche Literatur Verlag, Zurich / Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-3364-7 .

DVD

• Blue shirt - blue jeans - beat music. Youth and Music in the GDR. (Co-author André Meier), film length 135 minutes, Icestrom 2008

Radio plays

• Hare three-runner. Children's radio play based on Gerhardt Holz-Baumert, produced by Radio DDR 1985
• Curse. Children's radio play, produced by Radio DDR 1986
• Room 19. Radio play for young people, co-author Ulrich Kiehl, produced by Radio DDR 1988

Radio features

• Like paradise - the end of the job creation scheme. Production MDR 1996
• Social station - the working day of a community nurse. Co-author Ulrich Griebel, Production MDR 1994
• Penguin with saxophone - rock'n roll at a Magdeburg high school. Production MDR 1994
• No Sunday without dumplings - a look at Thuringian saucepans. Co-author Ulf Köhler, Production MDR 1994
• Put your foot to the limit - a GDR history teacher is fighting. Co-author Ulrich Kiehl, MDR production 1993
• The church died proudly - the Probsteigemeinde remembers the demolition of the university church. Production MDR 1992
• Money and Poems - GDR writers after the fall of the Wall. Co-author Holger Jackisch, production MDR 1992
• 2005: The "Leipziger Beataufstand" - Director: Andreas Meinetsberger (MDR)
• 2015: Käthe Kollwitz - Last Days in Moritzburg - Director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind (MDR)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Implementation provisions for the 2009 final examination

Web links

• Homepage of Kathrin Aehnlich
• Literature by and about Kathrin Aehnlich in the catalog of the German National Library