Lena Gorelik

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 .

2005: Bavarian Art Prize for My White Nights

2007: Nomination for the German Book Prize with a wedding in Jerusalem

2012: Literature grant from the Free State of Bavaria for Die Listensammlerin

2014: Book Prize from the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation for Die Listensammlerin

Autograph

My white nights . Novel. Graf, Munich 2004, paperback edition: ISBN 978-3-453-35106-6 .
Wedding in Jerusalem . Novel. SchirmerGraf Verlag, Munich 2007, paperback edition: ISBN 978-3-453-35253-7 .
In love with Saint Petersburg. My Russian trip . SchirmerGraf Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86555-054-5 .
Dear Misha ... you are a Jew . Graf, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86220-012-2 .
But you can speak German well! Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-55131-8 .
That one question . Literature quickie. Probsthayn, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-942212-90-8 .
The list collector . Rowohlt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-606-4 .
Zero to infinity . Rowohlt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-87134-806-8 .
Under the tree house . Rowohlt Rotation, Berlin 2016, E-BOOK.
More black than purple . Rowohlt, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-87134-175-5 .

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 .

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.

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

↑ Lena Gorelik: That feeling of fever. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 71 of 26./27./28. March 2016, p. 17.
↑ 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
↑ Scheffel Prize Winner
^ Literature grant
^ Foundation Ravensburger Verlag

personal data
SURNAME	Gorelik, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1st February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leningrad