Nora Bossong

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Nora Bossong on the blue sofa at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017

Nora Bossong (born January 9, 1982 in Bremen ) is a German writer .

Life

Nora Bossong's father worked as a social scientist for the Hamburg Senate . She grew up in Bremen and Hamburg .

In 2001 Bossong received a scholarship from Wolfenbüttel's first literature laboratory . She studied literature at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig as well as cultural studies , philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the University of Potsdam and the University of La Sapienza in Rome. She completed her studies with a master's thesis “on the staging of evil” in the work of film director David Lynch . In the winter semester 2018/19 she worked as a lecturer for poetics at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden . In 2018 she supported the Indivisible Alliance .

Bossong lives in Berlin . She is a member of the PEN Center Germany and was a member of its executive committee from 2017-2019.

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Nora Bossong started writing as a child. She writes poetry and prose that have been published in individual titles, anthologies and literary magazines. In 2006 she made her debut with the novel Area . Her novel 36.9 ° , published in 2015, dealt with the Italian politician Antonio Gramsci . In 2019 she was doing research in Paris for a novel about the yellow vests . After her computer with the materials was stolen, she abandoned the project.

In 2019, her novel Schutzzone made the long list of the German Book Prize . The jury praised the story of a UN employee from Geneva , who was torn between coming to terms with the genocide in Burundi and meeting an old childhood friend, as a “virtuoso novel”.

Bossong has received several awards for her literary work. In 2020 she was awarded the renowned Joseph Breitbach Prize in addition to the Thomas Mann Prize. Its jury praised her novels Weber's Protocol , Limited Liability Company , 36.9 ° and Schutzzone , in which she developed psychograms of people “based on precise knowledge of the profession”, “who gain our sympathy as individuals, increase the horror as prototypical performers”. Bossong is "a poet who takes her eminent opportunities to verbalize the world as an obligation to face major issues." Her work is highly political, but she does not moralize. She dedicates herself to the trials and tribulations of a Eurocentric century, the protagonists of her novels are different women and men - from diplomats to a textile manufacturer with his daughter to a UN employee.

reception

The main character in Nora Gomringer's story Recherche , with which Gomringer won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2015 , is named Nora Bossong and is a writer.

Single track

literature

  • Hauke ​​Kuhlmann, The Idyll in Contemporary Poetry. Nora Bossong's Summer Outside the Walls. In: Jan Gerstner and Christian Riedel (eds.): Idylls in contemporary literature and media. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1279-9 .
  • 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.

Awards

Nora Bossong at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2011

Web links

Commons : Nora Bossong  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Nora Bossong . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 32/2019 from August 6, 2019, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 17/2020 (accessed via Munzinger Archive ).
  2. Handbag gone - and bourgeois existence too. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  3. Protection zone . In: deutscher-buchpreis.de (accessed on 23 August 2019).
  4. Nora Bossong receives the Joseph Breitenbach Prize 2020 . In: joseph-breitbach.de, July 14, 2020 (PDF file, accessed July 18, 2020).
  5. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Another literary prize for Nora Bossong. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  6. Nora Gomringer: Nora Gomringer: "Research". FAZ, July 5, 2015, accessed on August 31, 2015 .
  7. Consul General Horst Weber , see Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 5: T – Z, Supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service (Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 188 f.
  8. André Hatting: "The spirit suffocates with gray bread" - volume of poems "Kreuzzug mit Hund" is partly astonishing , review in Die Zeit on January 28, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019
  9. Nora Bossong in conversation with Ute Welty: “Peace as a necessary utopia” , accessed October 13, 2019
  10. Nora Bossong awarded. In: boersenblatt.net. February 24, 2020, accessed February 24, 2020 .
  11. Nora Bossong receives the Joseph Breitbach Prize 2020 , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on July 14, 2020.