Kathrin Schrocke

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Kathrin Schrocke (* 1975 in Augsburg ) is a German author for children and young people.

Life

Schrocke attended the Paul-Klee-Gymnasium in Gersthofen. After studying German and psychology in Bamberg , she took a two-year correspondence course on children's and youth literature in Vienna . She worked as a press assistant in the publishing industry, worked as a journalist for the girls' magazine "Brigitte Young Miss" and as a guest lecturer at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg .

She has been working as a freelance children's and young adult book author since 2008 and publishes her books both under her real name and under the open pseudonym Amina Paul. For her novel Freak City she was awarded the Harzburg Youth Literature Prize ("Harzburger Eselsohr") and the Nettetal Youth Book Prize. The book was also nominated for the German Children's and Youth Literature Prize 2011. At the Book Fair in Krakow , the novel was awarded the title “Best Youth Novel International 2012”. In the 2017/2018 winter semester, Schrocke was teaching poetry for children and young people at the PH Karlsruhe .

From 2015 to 2018, after separating from her husband at the time, the author lived in the generation cult house in Essen .

Works

Plays

  • Open cards (premiered at the Paul-Klee-Gymnasium Gersthofen, 1995)
  • Tastelessness (premiered in the Munich Heiglhoftheater, 1998)
  • Cement (premiered at the ETA-Hoffmann-Theater Bamberg, 2007)

Books for children and young readers

  • Life always gets in the way. Mixtvision 2019
  • My life and other disasters. Fischer Sauerländer Verlag 2015
  • Damn good nights. Fischer Sauerländer Verlag 2014
  • Zuckerkringel & Company. The Tart Princess Conspiracy. Arena Verlag 2012
  • Conference of the horror spirits. Arena Verlag 2011
  • Freak City. Sauerländer Verlag 2010
  • The world is upside down in parent school. Arena Verlag 2010
  • Village princesses. Sauerländer Verlag 2009
  • Finding Alex. Schroedel Verlag 2009
  • The superheroes. Bank robbery with consequences. ArsEdition 2008
  • Adventure in the haunted mansion. Loewe Verlag 2008
  • Andi Pea Leg and the Humperdock. Oetinger Verlag 2007
  • The superheroes. The first use. ArsEdition 2007
  • Finding Alex. Oetinger Verlag 2007
  • Fake cowboys, real love. Loewe Verlag 2006
  • Little ghost stories. ArsEdition 2006
  • Horse lovers forever! Loewe Verlag 2008
  • Horse happiness and summer dreams. Loewe Verlag 2008
  • Welcome to the horse paradise. Loewe Verlag 2008
  • Suffering of love in the horse paradise. Loewe Verlag 2007
  • Reading lions shooting stars stories. Loewe Verlag 2006
  • A horse in the luggage. Loewe Verlag 2006
  • Reading magic stories. Loewe Verlag 2005
  • Bankruptcies, tricks and one horse too few. Loewe Verlag 2005
  • Stars and whispers. Loewe Verlag 2005
  • Lolle and the fearless twins. Loewe Verlag 2004
  • Vampires! Snappy! Love story ... Loewe Verlag 2004

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Great events cast their shadows ahead. In: A week full of strawberry days. Arena 2017
  • Cherry Queen. In: Unicorns don't swim. Aviva Verlag 2016
  • The house of the Christ child. In: Christmas surprise. Reclam publishing house 2015
  • The night hike. In: The most beautiful reading lion stories. Loewe Verlag 2007
  • Lights will guide you. In: Vampires! Snappy love stories. Arena Verlag 2009
  • Princess mail. In: Princess! Princess! Arena Verlag 2009
  • Snow in Mexico City. In: A star shines around the world. Loewe Verlag 2007
  • Crazy Chicken. In: Planet Football. Loewe Verlag 2006
  • Sorcerer Ziberius. In: The most beautiful reading tiger stories. Loewe Verlag 2007

Translations

  • With liv and other catastrophes. Turbine, Denmark 2016.
  • Freak City. Turbine. Denmark 2015.
  • Kaviné Freak City. Alma littera, Lithuania 2015.
  • Senza parole. Loescher Editore, Italy 2015.
  • Freak City. Scarlet Voyage, USA 2014.
  • Freak City. Shiji Chubanshe, China 2014.
  • Freak City. La Joie de Lire, Genève 2012.
  • Freak City. Dreams, Poland 2012.
  • The world is upside down in parent school. Younglim, South Korea 2011.
  • Encontrando a Alex. Lual Ediciones, Madrid 2009.
  • Stars and whispers. Fabula, Hungary 2009.
  • Crazy Chicken. Mlada Fronta, Prague 2008.
  • Crazy Chicken. S. Patakis, Athens 2008.

Awards

  • Working grant from the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2019
  • Town clerk Hausach, 2017
  • Nomination for the Mannheim fire pen, City of Mannheim 2017
  • Writer in Residence Villa Decius, Krakow 2016
  • Writer in Residence “Struwwelpippi comes to the jumping procession”, Luxembourg 2016
  • Award “best international youth novel”, Krakow Book Fair 2012
  • Nomination for the Golden Leslie - Youth Book Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate 2011
  • Nomination for the German Youth Literature Award 2011 for Freak City
  • Nettetal Youth Literature Prize 2010
  • Harzburg Youth Literature Prize ("Harzburger Eselsohr") 2010
  • Nomination for the Hansjörg-Martin Krimipreis for the best German youth crime novel of 2010
  • Art Award of the City of Augsburg 2009
  • Working grant in the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop 2007, funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Working grant in the international artist village Schöppingen , funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mdr.de: MDR KULTUR - Under books | MDR.DE. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ “Struwwelpippi” award winner, Luxembourg literature archive, accessed September 2, 2016
  3. ↑ Jury statement for the nomination of Freak City , website of the German Youth Literature Prize, accessed September 2, 2016
  4. ↑ Scholarship holders 2007 , ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The website of Künstlerhaus Liks, accessed on September 2, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de
personal data
SURNAME Schrocke, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of children's and young people's books
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg