Katja Petrovskaya

Katja Petrowskaya, 2017

Katja Petrovskaya ( Ukrainian Катерина Миронівна Петровська , Kateryna Myroniwna Petrowska , Russian Екатерина Мироновна Петровская ; born 3. February 1970 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian -German writer , literary scholar and journalist . In 2013 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

Life

Katja Petrowskaja grew up in Kiev. She studied literature and Slavic studies at the University of Tartu ( Estonia ). In 1994/95 she went to Stanford University and Columbia University on a scholarship from the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), and received her doctorate from Moscow University in 1998 with a thesis on The Poetics of Khodasevich's Prose . In 1999 she moved to Berlin to report as a journalist for various Russian media, including a. in the magazine Snob , it also publishes in German-language newspapers, u. a. in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the taz . For the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) she has been writing the column "The West-Eastern Diva" since 2011. She lives with her husband and two children in Berlin , Prenzlauer Berg. Like Kaminer , Katja Petrowskaja writes her texts in German and not in her native Ukrainian or Russian . Her husband and her editor Sieglinde Geisel are involved in thorough editing of your texts .

In 2010 she received the Robert Bosch Foundation's Grenzgänger scholarship for researching her work Maybe Esther. Stories , 2013 the grant of the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop .

For the illustrated book The Chosen , the photographer Anita Back accompanied her to the children's and youth camp in Orljonok and describes in her essay the search for a piece of her Soviet childhood.

In 2013, at the invitation of Hildegard Elisabeth Keller , she took part in the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and won the main prize with an excerpt from her work Maybe Esther , the story of the same name, which is one of the stories in the work. In it, she tells the extermination of the Jews in Kiev by the National Socialists using the story of Esther, who resembles her great-grandmother, who was kidnapped in Kiev in 1941 and murdered in the Babi Yar massacre. The jury notes that their text is the "appropriation of a story by later generations" and "a great gift to the German language". In 2015 she received the Premio Strega Europeo .

In October 2015 she carried out a project at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna under the working title “Everything that is the case” on the subject of photos and how viewers see them.

Works

• The chosen ones. A summer at the Orlionok holiday camp. Photo report by Anita Back with an essay by Katja Petrowskaja and a foreword by Joachim Jäger. Braus, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86228-029-2 .
• Maybe Esther. Stories . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42404-9 .

Awards

• 2013: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2014: Aspect Literature Prize
• 2015: Ernst Toller Prize
• 2015: Schubart Literature Prize
• 2015: Premio Strega Europeo

Web links

Commons : Katja Petrowskaja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Katja Petrowskaja in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katja Petrowskaja in the Munzinger archive
• Brief presentation at ORF
• Katja Petrowskaja on the Blue Sofa , ZDF Book Fair
• Portrait on 3sat
• Aimée Delblanc : Katja Petrowskaja meets her translator (sc. Into languages ​​other than German) from Maybe Esther . 9th Straelen atrium discussion in the EÜK , August 2014. In Translate , Zs. Des VdÜ , 1, 2015, p. 8f (with photo)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.kopelew-forum.de ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Snob, Russian magazine, see Russian Wikipedia ru: Сноб (журнал)
3. ^ Katja Petrowskaja, IFK website
4. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/thema-thema/1919930.html
5. ↑ "The German language was equivalent to a liberation". Retrieved June 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ 3sat: Katja Petrowskaja - The authors of the Bachmann Prize 2013 , accessed on July 7, 2013
7. ↑ Künstlerhaus Lukas: Scholarship Holders 2013 ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 10, 2016 
8. ^ Collective childhood in a Russian holiday camp. In: Die Zeit , July 22, 2012.
9. ↑ Excerpt from the novel. In the meantime - as of October 2018 - Maybe Esther has been translated into 21 languages.
10. ↑ Days of German-Language Literature 2013: Katja Petrowskaja, jury discussion Bachmann Prize , accessed on July 7, 2013
11. ^ Ingeborg Bachmann Prize to Katja Petrowskaja. In: Der Standard , July 7, 2013
12. ↑ Powerful, loose and lightly woven In: fza , July 7, 2013
13. ↑ A Katja Petrowskaja il Premio Strega Europeo on ansa.it , accessed on July 2, 2015 (Italian)
14. ↑ OE1.ORF.at, October 18, 2015
15. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (April 20, 2014) .
16. ↑ DPA-Starline: Literature: Katja Petrowskaja receives “aspekte” literature prize. In: Focus Online . October 1, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 .