Katja Oskamp
Katja Oskamp (* 1970 in Leipzig , GDR ) is a German writer and dramaturge .
Oskamp grew up in Berlin . She studied theater studies and worked as a dramaturge at the Rostock Volkstheater . She then studied literature at the Leipzig Literature Institute . She now lives in Berlin again and has been working as a podiatrist in the Marzahn district since 2015 . Her life partner is the Swiss writer Thomas Hürlimann .
In 2000 Katja Oskamp won second prize at the MDR literature competition for her short story Rolf and Mucki and so on . For her literary work she was awarded the Rauris Literature Prize in 2004 and the Anna Seghers Prize in 2008 .
Her debut collection of stories, Halbschwimmer, describes a youth in the GDR. The book was published in 2003 and received positive reviews. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote at the time that the nine stories "came together to form a development story behind which a miniature of the German-German 1980s and 1990s appears." In 2007, the fast-paced marriage novel The Dust Catcher followed .
Works
- Halbschwimmer , Erzählungen, Amman Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-250-60058-9 ; as paperback: Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8333-0148-1 .
- The dust catcher , Roman, Amman Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-250-60111-1 .
- Hellersdorfer Perle , Roman, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6110-4 .
- Marzahn, mon amour: Stories of a podiatrist , Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-4462-6414-4 .
Web links
- Official website of Katja Oskamp
- Literature by and about Katja Oskamp in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author information Zeit Online (accessed on 23 August 2019).
- ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/thomas-huerlimann-ueber-seine-krebsohlung-eine-spital-odyssee-ld.1476904
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oskamp, Katja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , GDR |