Meike Feßmann

Meike Feßmann (* 1961 in Munich ) is a German literary critic , author and journalist .

Life

Meike Feßmann studied German, philosophy and theater studies in Munich and Berlin . In 1991 Else Lasker-Schüler made her Dr. phil. PhD. Feßmann writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel and works as a reviewer for Deutschlandradio Kultur . In 2006 she was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for her work as a literary critic"has that literary criticism in an atomized society in a surface and entertainment culture an essential guidance." Meike Feßmann show, so Sybille Fuhrmann at the award ceremony, in 2008 it belonged to the jury: anxious German Book Prize Academy sent through selection and award of German Book Prize decides. From 2009 to 2017 she was a member of the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt .

Meike Feßmann lives as a freelance literary critic and essayist in Berlin.

Awards

• 2006: Alfred Kerr Prize

Publications

• Pawns. Else Lasker-Schüler's first-person figurations as a game with the author's role. A contribution to the poetology of the modern author. Dissertation. M & P Verlag for Science and Research, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-45019-8 .
• The words run patrol. Reinhard Lettau and the rhetoric of the enemy. In: Sinn und Form , Issue 3/1998, pp. 459–469.
• A radically poetic existence. The metamorphoses of the Else Lasker students. In: Sinn und Form, issue 1/2003, pp. 5–20.
• Poetics of proximity. On the topology of the intimate in contemporary literature. In: Sinn und Form, issue 1/2004, pp. 58–76.
• Targeted naturalization. Modernity and romanticism in the work of Brigitte Kronauer . In: Sinn und Form, issue 4/2004, pp. 487–503.

Web links

• Meike Feßmann: French literature. Me and lunch . Süddeutsche Zeitung online, October 11, 2017. Review of Annie Ernaux : The Years.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Kerr Prize: Laudation to Meike Feßmann boersenblatt.net of March 16, 2006