Mercedes Lauenstein
Mercedes Lauenstein (* 1988 in Kappeln ) is a German writer and journalist .
Life
Lauenstein grew up on the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein and in Munich . In 2009 she began her journalistic career in the now editorial team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In 2011 she began studying European ethnology at the LMU in Munich, which she completed with a BA in 2015. In the same year her prose debut appeared at night . The text consists of 25 episodes in which the narrator rings the doorbell for people in whose apartments the lights are still on at night. In 2016 she received the Bavarian Art Prize for the book . Her first novel Blanca was published in 2018 . She works as a freelance journalist for Zeitmagazin and for Jetzt, among others . Together with her partner, the photographer Juri Gottschall, she runs the culinary online magazine Splendido . Lauenstein lives in Munich and Italy.
Books
- At night. Stories. Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03614-0
- Blanca. Novel. Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03701-7
Release
- Munich for Women only (together with Nicole Adler). Vienna, Brandstätter 2019, ISBN 978-3-7106-0117-0
radio play
- Decisions , Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2020
Awards
- 2016 Bavarian Art Prize for Literature for Night
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Janina Mogendorf: Mercedes Lauenstein. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ at night. In: Pearl Divers. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Mercedes Lauenstein. In: Bavarian Art Prize. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ What is Splendido? Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: listen! Play! Art.mix. February 11, 2020, accessed March 18, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lauenstein, Mercedes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kappeln |