Larissa Boehning

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Larissa Boehning

Larissa Boehning (born August 25, 1971 in Wiesbaden ) is a German writer .

Life

Larissa Boehning was born in 1971 and grew up in Halstenbek in Schleswig-Holstein . During a stay in the USA in 1989, she graduated from Sidney High School in Ohio . In 1992 she passed her Abitur at the Schenefeld Gymnasium. She studied cultural studies , art history and philosophy in Lüneburg and Berlin and completed her studies with a master's thesis on the subject of sensualisation of information? About the gesture of touching and the fantasy of touching the Internet at the cultural studies seminar of the Humboldt University Berlin in May 1999. During her studies, she worked abroad for a long time - in France and the USA - and went on an extensive trip to Asia.

After completing her studies, she started out as a freelance graphic designer. Since the winter semester 2003 she has been teaching creative and literary writing as part of a teaching position at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in the department of cultural studies and German studies. From 2004 to 2007 she lived in Palma and gave a. a. Workshops at the Mallorca Film Academy. From 2008 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Siegen (Department of Media Studies and Media Aesthetics).

Larissa Boehning lives with her partner and their two children in Berlin.

Prizes, awards and honors

Scholarships

Reading tours on behalf of the Goethe Institute

In February 2012, Larissa Boehning traveled to the USA with readings in New York at the Festival for New Literature, in Chicago at the Goethe-Institut , in the University of Illinois and DePaul University and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

In May 2013 she went on a reading tour of several weeks in Iran with seminars and readings at the universities of Tehran and Isfahan .

In May 2015 a trip to the People's Republic of China followed with a translation workshop at Peking University , reading in Qingdao , and seminars at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Days of German-Language Literature 2013

Larissa Boehning was invited by literary critic, author and journalist Meike Feßmann to the 37th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2013 . On July 4, 2013 she read an excerpt from her then unpublished novel Nothing about it, but everything is true under the then working title Sugar . On Saturday, July 6, 2013, the jury nominated Larissa Boehning's text for the short list of seven candidates.

Works

  • Schwalbensommer, Erzählungen, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2003 ( ISBN 3-8218-0736-9 )
  • Light fabrics, Roman, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-8218-0737-9 )
  • Short story "How nice it would be" in Smoke - Stories from the blue haze, anthology of short stories, Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-89716-927-2 )
  • Short story "Something for nothing" - English translation of "Onlookers" in Berlin Tales - Evocative short stories from Berlin, Oxford University Press, New York 2009 ( ISBN 978-0-19-955938-1 )
  • Short story "Elm honey and penguins" in Just no semolina on Christmas Eve - A Christmas feast, editor Feridun Zaimoglu, List Taschenbuch, Berlin 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-550-08831-5 )
  • The happiness of the cicadas, Roman, Galiani, Berlin 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-86971-039-6 )
  • None of this is true, but everything is true, Roman, Galiani, Berlin 2014 ( ISBN 978-3869710877 )

Trivia

In her volume of stories, Schwalbensommer , Larissa Boehning used the Reformed spelling; she returned to traditional spelling for her debut novel Lichte Stoff .

The text that Larissa Boehning presented at the Days of German-Language Literature 2013 did not find its way into the final version of her novel None of this is true, but everything is true .

In 2013, Larissa Boehning was appointed to the jury for the award of the Pinneberg district's culture prize . In 2007 she received this award in the category of advancement award for young artists .

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personal data
SURNAME Boehning, Larissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhning, Larissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden