Nikola Anne Mehlhorn

Nikola Anne Mehlhorn (born September 11, 1967 in Hanover ) is a German writer and musician .

Life

Nikola Anne Mehlhorn studied instrumental music in Hanover, Essen and Cologne. In 1995 she completed her studies at the Cologne University of Music with Erich Penzel with a diploma. Engagements with the MDR symphony orchestra, the Saarland State Theater, the Philharmonia Hungarica and other cultural orchestras followed. From 2007 to 2008 she studied culture and media management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Since 2008 she has been working at the University of Hamburg (university music).

Nikola Anne Mehlhorn has been publishing literary works and journalistic texts in various online and print media since 1995. She has received many awards for her work. The mother of two children (* 2004, * 2010) lives in Kronprinzenkoog / Schleswig-Holstein.

Awards

• 1995: Hamburg Literature Prize for Authors
• 2000: Friedrich Hebbel Prize
• 2000: Scholarship from the Arno Schmidt Foundation for highly talented young writers
• 2001: Heinrich Heine grant
• 2001: Scholarship from the Kester Haeusler Foundation
• 2001: Workshop grant from the Berlin Literary Colloquium and the Berlin Senate
• 2003: Single House Scholarship, New York
• 2003: Residence grant from the Berlin Literary Colloquium and the Berlin Senate
• 2013: Longlist for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2015: Culture Prize of the Pinneberg district
• 2018: Finalist of the Irseer Pegasus '

Publications (printed works)

Independent works

• Fallow moon. Rospo-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930325-24-1 .
• Star becoming legend. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-627-00091-9 .
• Salt flood. Nachttischbuch Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-937550-12-7 .
• Wind writing north. Horlemann Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89502-363-7 . The output was maculated in 2020 .
• Canning angel. Kadera-Verlag, Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-948218-01-0 .

Contributions to anthologies

• Hamburger bricks. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930802-35-X .
• Curses. Edited by Jörg Bong and Oliver Vogel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14754-9 .
• Language in the technical age. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISSN  0038-8475 .
• Saviour. In: All tinsel. Authors celebrate the festival of love. Edited by Susann Rehlein. Piper Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-492-04449-2 .
• Writing mothers. In: Federwelt. Journal for authors. Uschtrin Verlag, Munich 2012, ISSN  1439-8362 .
• Rhombus runes coffee? In: Best friends. Artwork for Gottorf Castle. Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815806-5-5 .
• Dream 20 a / b. In: Pinneberg circled verbosely. Wiesenburg Verlag, Oerlenbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-95632-606-6 .
• German miniature. In: We heard wolves. Kulturmaschinen Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96763-000-8 .
• Butcher's lust. In: Travel Food Writing. Expeditions publishing house, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-947911-24-0 .
• Digression - Northern Lights . In: SIGNUM - sheets for literature and criticism. Norbert Weiß, SIGNUM e. V., Dresden 2020, ISSN 1438-9355.

multimedia

• Literature before midnight ; Reading, NDR 3, 1997
• Profiles ; Reading and discussion, DSF, 2002
• What do you think? Reading / Interview, NDR Info, 2002
• Salt flood ; Web reading by the Hamburg Cultural Authority, Internet, 2008
• Fire days ; Reading, youmee.tv, 2008
• Writing mothers ; Article, literary magazine Federwelt, ebook 2012
• Days of German-Language Literature 2013 , Video, 3sat, 2013
• Speech on the awarding of the Pinneberg District Culture Prize, Pinneberg District website, 2015
• Triptych for choir, baritone, organ and electronics; Peter Heeren (composition), Nikola Anne Mehlhorn (word collage), 2016

Memberships

• Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di ; from 2007 to 2011 board member of VS (Hamburg regional association)
• Hamburg authors' association
• PEN Center Germany

Political commitment

Nikola Anne Mehlhorn stands in the tradition of politically committed writers such as Heinrich Böll or Günter Grass . Not only her work as a board member in the VS - Association of German Writers in ver.di , but also her literary commitment against anti-Semitism, exclusion and racism should be mentioned. In December 2015 Nikola Anne Mehlhorn initiated the campaign “Artists against right-wing extremism. Benefit events in favor of regional and international aid projects ”. Numerous artistic events in Schleswig-Holstein make statements against the law and donate financial support to aid organizations. In 2016 - due to current events - the organization SOS Méditerranée / European Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People in the Mediterranean was the focus of the series of events. The Schleswig-Holstein member of the state parliament and cultural policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Beate Raudies , is the patron of the “Artists against right-wing extremism” campaign .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikola Anne Mehlhorn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Nikola Anne Mehlhorn at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Nikola Anne Mehlhorn at perlentaucher.de
• Official website
• Reading by grades. Interview with Nikola Anne Mehlhorn at SHZ July 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Days of German-Language Literature 2013
2. ↑ Collection of the novels Brachmond , Sternwerdungssage und Salzflut .
3. ↑ https://www.nachttischbuch.de/nikola_anne_mehlhorn.phtml
4. ↑ Excerpt from the story Brachmond .
5. ↑ PEN International
6. ↑ u. a. in the saga of the star ; ISBN 3-627-00091-9 or the speech for the award of the Pinneberg District Culture Prize 2015.
7. ↑ Facebook page
8. ↑ SOS Méditerranée / European Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People in the Mediterranean ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.