Lena Gorelik

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Lena Gorelik (2017)

Lena Gorelik (born February 1, 1981 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a German journalist and writer of Russian-Jewish origin.

Life

Lena Gorelik emigrated to Germany as a quota refugee from Russia in 1992 together with her parents, grandmother and her brother . The family initially had to live in a refugee shelter for eighteen months . Gorelik received her training as a journalist at the German School of Journalism in Munich . She then completed the course in Eastern European Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Gorelik publishes both fiction and scientific texts and travel literature . She is a member of the Sarabande author edition. At irregular intervals she writes articles for Deutschlandradio Kultur and writes on current political and social topics, among others. a. in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , ZEIT and in the magazine of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger .

Awards

Works

Autograph

Translations

  • Lena Muchina : Lena's diary. Leningrad 1941–1942 . Translated from Russian together with Gero Fedtke and provided with foreword, afterword and comments. Graf, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86220-036-8 .

literature

  • Sylvia Jaworski: Gorelik, Lena. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 175-177.

Web links

Commons : Lena Gorelik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Lena Gorelik: That feeling of fever. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 71 of 26./27./28. March 2016, p. 17.
  2. Lena Gorelik: Putin and me. My cousin is buying a refrigerator. My brother disappears in the forest. And what is this country doing to me? Das Magazin, Tamedia, Zurich June 17, 2017, pp. 10–17
  3. Scheffel Prize Winner
  4. ^ Literature grant
  5. ^ Foundation Ravensburger Verlag