Kerstin Kempker

Kerstin Kempker (2018)

Kerstin Kempker (* 1958 in Wuppertal ) is a German writer .

Life

Kerstin Kempker completed a commercial apprenticeship, studied medicine and sinology for a few semesters and completed her diploma in social work . Since 2002 she has published novels , short stories and short prose . She lives in Berlin .

From 1996 to 2001 Kerstin Kempker managed the Berliner Weglaufhaus , a crisis facility for homeless psychiatric sufferers , and published specialist books. In 2000, her autobiographical book Mitgift - Notes vom Disappearance appeared . Kerstin Kempker worked as a project coordinator until 2004 (including 2003-2004 for the European Union's action program to combat discrimination ).

Literary works

Kerstin Kempker's texts, written in a language that is as poetic as it is precise, circle the boundaries of communication and consciousness and vary complex topics such as obstinacy and alienation . The novel Die Betrogenen , published by Kitab-Verlag in Klagenfurt in 2007, describes how strange a relationship is and the happiness of disappearing. In 2012 Das wird ein Fest was published by Nimbus. Art and books, Wädenswil . A young man shouts “I am a novel” and dies, a mirror on the mountain directs the sun into the village, a narrator sits on the balcony and builds a life out of sentence and mirror. In 2014 her novel The Fulfillment of Wishes was published. An exercise in which a revolt in the hospital is played out. The short prose Only the bones please. A handover (2015), illustrated by Paula Kempker, is situated in the Palatinate and follows the simple rule: Whoever says I is dead. In the novel Bruderherz. A Flicker (2017), the narrator imagines her brother on a night in New York .

Prizes and awards

Kerstin Kempker was awarded the Harder Literature Prize (2003) and the jury prize of the “Munich Short Stories Competition” (2009). In addition to working grants from the German Literature Fund (2007, 2013, 2017) and a working grant from the Berlin Senate (2019), she received grants from the Sylt Foundation (2005), the Schweizer Stadtmühle Willisau (2008) and the Künstlerhäuser Schloss Wiepersdorf (2009) and Edenkoben (2012) ). In 2014, Kerstin Kempker was awarded the New York Scholarship by the German Literature Fund eV, the laudation was given by Burkhard Müller .

List of works

• Brother dear. A flicker . Novel. Nimbus. Art and books, Wädenswil 2017. ISBN 978-3-03850-036-0
• Just the bones, please. A handover . Short prose. Nimbus. Art and books, Wädenswil 2015. ISBN 978-3-03850-016-2
• The fulfillment of wishes. An exercise . Novel. Nimbus. Art and books, Wädenswil 2014. ISBN 978-3-907142-92-9
• It's going to be a festival . Novel. Nimbus. Art and books, Wädenswil 2012. ISBN 978-3-907142-77-6
• The betrayed . Novel. Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-902005-81-6
• Dowry - Notes of Disappearance . Antipsychiatrieverlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 978-3-925931-15-4 . E-book edition 2016. ISBN 978-3-925931-65-9
• Escape to Reality - The Berliner Weglaufhaus (Ed.). Antipsychiatrieverlag, Berlin 1996. ISBN 978-3-925931-13-0
• Instead of psychiatry (edited jointly with Peter Lehmann ). Antipsychiatrieverlag, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-925931-07-4
• Expensive lack of understanding - The language of madness and the counterpart of psychiatry . Antipsychiatrieverlag, Berlin 1991. ISBN 978-3-925931-04-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Kerstin Kempker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Kerstin Kempker