Lana Lux

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Lana Lux (born November 22, 1986 in Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German-speaking writer , illustrator and actress of Ukrainian- Jewish origin.

Lana Lux

Life

Lux grew up in Dnipropetrovsk, a largely Russian-speaking city in central Ukraine, and received violin and singing lessons from an early age. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the family initially planned to emigrate to Israel , but changed their mind and left for Germany in 1996. After a few weeks in a refugee home, the family moved to Gelsenkirchen , where Lux learned German and completed elementary school and high school. She graduated from high school in 2007 and first studied ecotrophology in Mönchengladbach . Later she trained as an actor at the Michael Chekhov Studio in Berlin . She has lived in Berlin with her husband and daughter since 2010 and works as an author and illustrator.

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Lux first achieved notoriety in the Jewish community in Germany through her blog 52 Shabbatot . The blog was initially only intended as a documentation of Lux's performative project 52 Shabbatot, in which she complied with the Jewish commandments and prohibitions on the Shabbat day of rest through a challenge throughout 2016. The challenge was "a way to" consciously and critically "deal with religion," as she said in an interview with the Jüdischen Allgemeine . On her blog, Lux published partly autobiographical, partly fictional short stories, short stories and essays as well as the accompanying illustrations. 

In 2017 her highly acclaimed debut “Kukolka” was published by Aufbau Verlag, which has been translated into several languages. Her novel, which has been received positively by the critics, tells the coming-of-age story of the Ukrainian orphan Samira, who first struggled through the post-Soviet Ukraine as a member of a children's gang, only to get to her dream destination Berlin via wrong turns. In Berlin, however, she is not expecting a friend from the children's home who has been adopted by a German couple, but a network of human trafficking, power and abuse from which she can break free.

In March 2020, the Aufbau Verlag published her novel “Jägerin und Collector”. The first part of the multi-perspective work tells how the adolescent Alisa, vomiting and starvation, finds the only outlet for the family and social expectations and thus sinks deeper and deeper into a flood of depression and bulimia . The second part of the novel then takes on the perspective of Tanyas, her beautiful mother, who takes stock of her own life after breaking contact with her daughter.

The second novel also received a positive response in the features section, a reviewer of the TAZ praised “the uninhibited tone that introduces the reader to the story, which is becoming increasingly gloomy.” Hannah Lühmann stated in the world : “The precise, unpretentious warmth and the unbelievable talent for tension that Lana Lux's stories make up for you: You devour this book just as you devoured Kukolka . "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Products by authors: Lana Lux. Accessed March 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Katharina Schmidt-Hirschfelder: Shabbat 52 times. June 26, 2017, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ What's up here? In: 52 shabbatot. June 28, 2016, accessed March 5, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Kukolka. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ hunter and gatherer. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Marlen Hobrack: “ Hunter and Gatherer ” by Lana Lux: What the bodies tell . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 6, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 11, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Hannah Lühmann Die WELT 2020-03-21
personal data
SURNAME Lux, Lana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer, illustrator and actress of Ukrainian-Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union