Maike Wetzel

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Maike Wetzel (born September 29, 1974 in Groß-Gerau ) is a German writer , filmmaker and screenwriter .

Maike Wetzel at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2018.

Life

Maike Wetzel studied directing at the Munich Film School and with a DAAD scholarship in Great Britain and made several short films and reports as a director and screenwriter . She lives in Berlin .

In addition to narrative prose, Maike Wetzel writes screenplays for movies as well as journalistic articles, etc. a. for “Zeit” and “ FAZ ”. Wetzel was a laureate of the meeting of young authors in 1993 and received a. a. 1997 an award at the Bettina-von-Arnim-Preis , 1999 the Allegra-Literaturpreis , 2000 the advancement award for literature of the Free State of Bavaria , 2005 a grant from the Foreign Office for the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, 2000 the residence grant from the Literary Colloquium Berlin and 2006 the Gerhard Beier Prize . In 2010 she was the town clerk of a project funded by the “German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe” in Pécs, the 2010 Capital of Culture, and kept a blog for five months , which was also translated into Hungarian.

After two stories shortly after the turn of the millennium, her first novel came out in 2018. Elly , the novel about a disappearing girl and the desperate family about it, was criticized in the FAZ that the author does not trust herself and explains too much.

Her books have appeared in the English translation by Lyn Marven as LONG DAYS by Comma Press, Manchester and in the Hungarian translation by Timea Pénzes as MÁMOR by Ab-Art, Bratislava. Individual stories appeared in Korean, French, Russian, Italian, Danish, Czech, Polish, and Serbian.

Works

Short films

  • Norway , 2002
  • Weddings , 2000
  • Slavutich / Chernobyl , ARD-Weltspiegel contribution, 1999
  • Stranded , 1998
  • Marcus-Penelope , 1995

Awards

  • 2017: Robert Gernhardt Prize for her novel project Elly
  • Martha Saalfeld Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (2016)
  • writer-in-residence 2014 at the Goethe-Institut / Foreign Office, Wellington in New Zealand
  • nominated for the Screenplay Award Münster.Land (2011)
  • City clerk grant for Fünfkirchen / Pécs from the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe (2010)
  • writer in residence at the DAAD in Liverpool and Lancaster (2009)
  • Alfred Döblin grant from the Berlin Academy of the Arts (2008)
  • Bordeaux grant from the Hessian Literature Council (2008)
  • Scholarship from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation (2007)
  • Baltic Ring scholarship for Hald Hovedgaard, Viborg / Denmark (2007)
  • Gerhard Beier Prize (2006)
  • Scholarship from the Academy of Arts in Berlin for the Villa Serpentara (2006)
  • Federal Foreign Office scholarship for Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2005)
  • Residence grant from the Kunst-Raum, Sylt (2004)
  • Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation (2003)
  • Authors' grant from the Berlin Senate (2001)
  • Bavarian State Prize for Literature (2000)
  • Residence grant from the Literary Colloquium Berlin (2000)
  • Allegra competition 1st place (2000)
  • Script award from the Bavarian Theater Academy (2000)
  • Klagenfurt literature course at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition (1998)
  • Bettina von Arnim Competition (1997)
  • Stockstadt Literature Prize (2015, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2015)
  • Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia of the Ministry of Science and Art (1995)

Web links

Commons : Maike Wetzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ town clerk
  2. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : Maike Wetzel's novel "Elly": Is she the one that is missing? , Review in the FAZ on November 12, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wetzel, Maike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, filmmaker and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross-Gerau