Kathrin Schmidt
Kathrin Schmidt (born March 12, 1958 in Gotha ) is a German writer .
life and work
Kathrin Schmidt grew up in Gotha and from 1964 in Waltershausen . After graduating from high school, she studied psychology at the University of Jena from 1976 to 1981 . After completing her studies ( diploma ), she worked as a research assistant at the University of Leipzig from 1981 to 1982 , then as a child psychologist at the Rüdersdorf district hospital and at the Berlin-Marzahn child and youth health protection team.
1986/1987 she completed a special course at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , she worked on the round table in East Berlin . In 1990/1991 she was editor of the feminist women's magazine Ypsilon and until 1993 worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research. She has been a freelance writer since 1994 . She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Kathrin Schmidt began to write as a teenager and initially published poetry . The poems are characterized by strict metrics , powerful, sensual language and frequent use of puns . The novels, which are sometimes classified as magical realism due to the wealth of baroque stories , also show Kathrin Schmidt as a linguistically powerful author with an exuberant fantasy, who is compared by critics with the early Günter Grass and Irmtraud Morgner .
The greatest literary success so far is the autobiographical novel You Don't Die . In it, the author describes the illness and recovery story of the writer Helene, who is confronted with a lack of control over her body after a stroke and has to learn the language again. The book sold 150,000 times and was awarded the German Book Prize in 2009.
Kathrin Schmidt raised five children with her husband and lives in Berlin-Mahlsdorf .
Works
Poetry books
- Kathrin Schmidt. Poetry album (lyric series) , 179th edition. Berlin 1982.
- An angel flies through the wallpaper factory . New Life, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-355-00382-4 .
- River picture with angel . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-11931-1 ; Poetry edition 2000, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-935284-14-4 .
- Go-In the Belladonnas . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-462-02933-9 .
- Dances of death. With Karl-Georg Hirsch. Leipzig 2001.
- Blind bees . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04193-4 .
- washing place of cool things. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-31812-8 .
Novels
- The Gunnar Lennefsen Expedition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 978-3-442-73583-9 .
- Koenig's children. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03129-5 .
- Seebach's black cats. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03612-2 .
- You don't die . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04098-2 .
- Kapok's sisters . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04924-4 .
stories
- Sticky ends. Science fiction novella. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-8218-0682-6 .
- Three blue carp. Short prose. Berlin hand press, Berlin 2000.
- Finito. Swam over it. Stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04317-4 .
- Deep sheep lake and other stories . With three color etchings by Madeleine Heublein. Leipzig Bibliophile Evening 2016.
Release
- Poetry seminar 1989. 1990.
- Yearbook of Poetry 2011 . With Christoph Buchwald . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011.
Awards
- 1988: Anna Seghers Prize
- 1993: Leonce and Lena Prize
- 1994: Meran Poetry Prize
- 1994: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
- 1997: City clerk of Berlin-Hellersdorf
- 1998: Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt
- 1998: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
- 1998: Promotion Prize for Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
- 1998: GEDOK Literature Prize
- 2000: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
- 2001: German Critics' Prize
- 2003: Droste Prize of the City of Meersburg
- 2005: Art Prize for Literature from the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH
- 2009: Prize of the SWR best list
- 2009: German Book Prize for You Don't Die
- 2010: German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- 2011: Novi Sad International Literature Award for Poetry
- 2011: Literature Prize of the Eisenhüttenstadt Steel Foundation
- 2012: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
- 2012: Sinecure Landsdorf residency scholarship (started in 2014)
- 2013: Thuringian Literature Prize
- 2016: Christine Lavant Prize
- 2018: Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg for poetry for washing place of cool things
Web links
- Literature by and about Kathrin Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on Kathrin Schmidt's work at Literaturport
- I'm back - portrait of Vladimir Balzer in the world , April 4, 2009, edition 20/2009, Literary World, p. 2
- Short biography and reviews of works by Kathrin Schmidt at perlentaucher.de
- http://www.tour-literatur.de/Links/links_autoren/schmidt_kathrin_links.htm
- Kathrin Schmidt at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- Monday interview with Kathrin Schmidt in the TAZ
- Schmidt's statement on the copyright debate , FAZ of July 12, 2012
- Kathrin Schmidt on poetenladen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Hempel: "I wanted to hear words" (PDF; 1.01 MB) Book review of "You don't die.", In BERLINER ÄRZTE (Chamber of Physicians' Journal of Berlin), issue 03/2010.
- ↑ Book price shortlist as a total work of art , focus.de
- ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography from LAND BRANDENBURG LOTTO GmbH. Retrieved December 14, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Kathrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |