Kathrin Weßling

Kathrin Weßling (2018)

Kathrin Weßling (* 1985 in Ahaus ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Alexander-Hegius-Gymnasium in Ahaus, Kathrin Weßling first moved to Cologne in 2006 , where she studied philosophy , German and classical philology at the University of Cologne . After two semesters, she accepted a position at the Hamburger Kammerspiele in 2007 and worked there until 2010, among other things, as an assistant director and prompter .

From 2008 Wessling had numerous appearances in Hamburg as a poetry slammer and at reading stages (including the well-known Hamburger Randale und Liebe in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus , of which Wessling is a founding member and which she left in 2012), later she became known nationwide with her texts. In 2010 she founded the blog Drüberleben, in which she reported on her everyday life with the depression and personal setbacks that Weßling suffered from for several years.

Her debut novel Drüberleben was published in 2012 . In 2013 the director and actor Daniel Wahl adapted the book for the stage at the Freiburg Theater. In 2015, Frank Oberhäußer staged the novel with Lisa-Marie Becker at the Vaganten stage in Berlin . In 2015 her second book Tomorrow is over by Luchterhand was published , a short story book about lovesickness. In 2016, Weßling was the initiator of the hashtag “#aufdieliebe”, which called for people to “drink to love” after the terrorist attacks in Brussels. In 2018 Ullstein Weßling's first novel “Super und dir?” Was published , which “[with] emotional force [...] describes a merciless world in which substitutability, lack of perspectives and the need for self-optimization put a whole generation under pressure” . Her second novel Nix happened was also published by Ullstein in January 2020. The themes of the book are personal failure and resilience .

Since 2015, Weßling has been working full-time in the field of online journalism and social media (including at Spiegel Online , stern.de and NDR ).

Works

Monographs

• Survive . Depression is no reason to be sad. Goldmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-31284-9 .
• Coffee and cake . Short stories. Literature Quickie, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-942212-78-6 .
• Tomorrow is over . Stories. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87494-4 .
• Great and you? Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-961-01010-3 .
• Nothing happens . Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-961-01038-7

Anthologies

• Dietmar Bittrich (ed.): Christmas with the humpback relatives . Rowohlt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-63014-9 .
• Dietmar Bittrich (ed.): Vacation with the hunchbacked relatives . Rowohlt, 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-63076-7 .

Sound carrier

• Kathrin Weßling reads Drüberleben . Depression is no reason to be sad. The Hörverlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86717-920-1 .

Web links

Commons : Kathrin Weßling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Author and blogger. In: City magazine. Retrieved October 1, 2014 . 
2. ^ Yvonne duration: When blogs become books . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . September 25, 2013.
3. ↑ The low pressure area in the head - The theater version of Kathrin Weßling's depression novel "Drüberleben" is premiered at the Freiburg Theater . In: Badische Zeitung . October 21, 2013, p. 40 .
4. ↑ Survive . In: Berlin stages . ( berlin-buehnen.de [accessed on April 27, 2017]).
5. ↑ Lovesickness, fresh from the dissection table . In: stern.de . August 19, 2015 ( stern.de [accessed April 27, 2017]).
6. ↑ Silvia Follmann: "I had the shitty worst heartache of my life". EDITION F, accessed April 27, 2017 . 
7. ↑ "Fuck it, I won't let my openness be ruined!": The initiator of the hashtag #aufdieliebe in an interview . In: WIRED Germany . March 23, 2016 ( wired.de [accessed April 27, 2017]).
8. ↑ If the internet just wants to have a drink - # AufDieLiebe initiator Kathrin Weßling in an interview . In: t3n News . ( t3n.de [accessed on April 27, 2017]). If the internet just wants to have a drink - # AufDieLiebe initiator Kathrin Weßling in an interview ( memento of the original from September 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Klas Libuda: Twitter trend after attack in Brussels: A glass of vodka for love. Retrieved April 27, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Title information from the publisher. Accessed February 1, 2020 . 
11. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/arbeit/2020-01/neuanfang-scheitern-lebenslauf-depressionen-adhs-arbeit-studienabbruch
12. ↑ ABOUT - Kathrin Weßling . In: Kathrin Weßling . ( kathrinwessling.de [accessed on April 27, 2017]).