Miku Sophie Kühmel

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Miku Sophie Kühmel (2019)

Miku Sophie Kühmel (* 1992 in Gotha ) is a German writer .

life and work

Miku Sophie Kühmel grew up as the youngest of three sisters in her hometown Gotha and began to be enthusiastic about inventing stories as a child. In 2010 she said she moved to Berlin to study . She studied literature and media studies at the Humboldt University there until 2017 . A research grant at New York University followed . During her studies she counted among others Roger Willemsen and Daniel Kehlmann among her lecturers.

From 2012, Kühmel began working as an author, speaker, presenter and editor for university and local radio while studying. From 2016 to 2017 she worked on the podcast program of the online audiobook provider Audible .

As an author, Kühmel produced her own radio tracks and podcasts. Since 2013, her short prose has also appeared in magazines and anthologies . 2018 Kühmel reached with their first, unpublished manuscript shedding on the short list of the blog Buster literature price . The story is about a woman who escapes a plane crash in northern Iceland and is left traumatized.

Her breakthrough as a writer followed with the first published novel Kintsugi , which was published by S. Fischer Verlag in autumn 2019 . The book, titled after the Japanese repair method of the same name for ceramics , focuses on a gay couple whose relationship is put to the test after 20 years together on a winter weekend with friends. Kintsugi arrived on the shortlist of the German Book Prize in 2019 and brought Kühmel the same year the literary prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation one. The jury there compared the book with Goethe's The Elective Affinities and Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and praised Kühmel for her “knowledge of human nature and the ability to observe”. "A very impressively concentrated debut [...] The novel Kintsugi develops a new, contemporary view of concepts of life and love and is convincing as an ensemble novel with extremely differentiated character psychology," said the jury.

Single title (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game. In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

Commons : Miku Sophie Kühmel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b FELLWECHSEL reading sample . In: textmagazin.wordpress.com, March 3, 2018 (accessed August 22, 2019).
  2. ↑ Writing & reading . In: frlnkhml.com (accessed August 20, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c Podcasting & audio production . In: frlnkhml.com (accessed August 20, 2019).
  4. ↑ Miku Sophie Kühne . In: fischerverlage.de (accessed on August 20, 2019).
  5. ↑ Portrait of Miku Sophie Kühmel . In. blogbuster-preis.de, March 8, 2018 (accessed August 22, 2019).
  6. ↑ Huttel, Guhr and Kühmel on the shortlist . In: boersenblatt.net, April 24, 2018 (accessed August 22, 2019).
  7. ↑ Sebastian Guhr wins the Blogbuster Prize 2018 . In: keinundaber.ch, September 28, 2018 (accessed on August 22, 2019).
  8. ↑ Literature Prize 2019 . In: juergen-ponto-stiftung.de (accessed on August 20, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Kühmel, Miku Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha , Germany