Liane Dirks

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Liane Dirks (born November 15, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German writer who also works as a moderator and journalist.

Life

Liane Dirks grew up in Hamburg , the Caribbean , Bavaria and Hesse . After graduating from high school and studying , she worked as a career counselor . She has been a freelance writer since 1985 . She lives in Cologne today .

With her debut novel Die liebe Angst , she was one of the first in Germany to deal with the subject of child sexual abuse in literary form . The book, which was also received very positively by literary criticism, triggered a debate and numerous activities; it is now regarded as a kind of standard work on this topic and is cited in numerous academic papers. In 1990 Dirks took part in the “No violence against children” campaign led by then Family Minister Ursula Lehr with numerous readings and panel discussions. Dirks took up the subject of child abuse again in the novel Four Ways to Bury my Father (2002), which shed light on the perpetrator's perspective. The author was awarded the LiteraTour Nord prize for this novel . In her novel Krystyna. And love? I ask her Dirks dealt with the life of the Auschwitz survivor Krystyna Żywulska and her bizarre love affair with Thomas Harlan, who is over 20 years her junior . The book was on the SWF leaderboard for months.

Dirks is a member of the PEN Center Germany and has lectured at universities in the USA and Germany. Together with Ekkehard Skoruppa, she runs the Cologne Literature Atelier. Dirks has so far published six novels and edited 21 books.

Awards

  • 1984: 1st prize at the North Rhine-Westphalian authors' meeting
  • 1984: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1985: Prize for Literature from the State Capital Düsseldorf
  • 1987: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1989: Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship from the City of Cologne
  • 1993: Screenplay funding from the Hamburg Film Office
  • 1993: Scriptwriting grant from the City of Zurich and the Canton of Lucerne
  • 1996: Schöppingen artist village scholarship
  • 1996: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1997: Scholarship from the Foundation for Art and Culture NRW
  • 1998: Märkischer Literature Prize
  • 1999: Märkisches scholarship for literature
  • 2001: Scholarship Kulturstiftung Rheinland-Pfalz, Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
  • 2003: Prize of the LiteraTour Nord
  • 2005: Visiting professor for creative writing, Allegheny College, USA
  • 2006–2009: Visiting professor at Middlebury College, USA
  • 2011: Scholarship from the Foundation for Art and Culture NRW
  • 2012: Lecturer at the University of Hildesheim, degree course in literary writing
  • 2012/2013: Lecturer at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

Works

Novels

Audio books

Non-fiction

  • Write yourself into life. The way to self-development . Kösel (Random Home), Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-466-34615-8

Editing

  • ... that dictated lines simply lay down ... , Dülmen 1995
  • Monthly books , 12 volumes, Sanssouci, Munich 2007
  • The book of the blooming spring , Herder, Freiburg 2011
  • The book from shining summer , Herder, Freiburg 2011
  • The book of golden autumn , Herder, Freiburg 2011
  • The book of the starry winter , Herder, Freiburg 2011
  • Wherever the heart takes you ... GLÜCK , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012
  • Wherever the heart takes you ... LOVE , Herder, Freiburg 2012
  • Wherever the heart takes you ... FREUNDSCHAFT , Herder, Freiburg 2012
  • Wherever the heart takes you ... MEER , Herder, Freiburg 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrzej Szczypiorski : Love and Memory . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1999 ( online ).
  2. ^ Liane Dirks in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Dirks, Liana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, presenter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg