Olivia Kleinknecht
Olivia Kleinknecht ( pseudonym : Andrea Mezzatorre ; Olivia Monti , * 21st May 1960 as Natasha Kleinknecht in Stuttgart ) is a Swiss writer and painter.
Life
Olivia Kleinknecht studied law at the Universities of Tübingen , Lausanne and Munich . In 1989 she received her doctorate in law from the European University Institute in Florence . Further studies at the art school Accademia delle Arti del Disegno followed in Florence; the artist's watercolors and oil paintings have been shown at exhibitions in Lausanne , Florence and Stuttgart . Olivia Kleinknecht is mainly active as a writer; she is the author of novels and non-fiction books. In 1998 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Olivia Kleinknecht, who is a member of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center , the association “ Authors of Switzerland ”, the network “ Murderous Sisters ”, the International Association of Crime Writers and Associate Member of the ESSWE, lives in Zurich today.
Works
- Positivity of the Law with Niklas Luhmann , EUI, Florence 1992 (under the name Natascha Kleinknecht)
- Love wages , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1998
- Neid , Pano Verlag, Zurich 2001 (under Andrea Mezzatorre)
- The director , Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2002
- Mord for breakfast , Edition Epoca, Zurich 2003
- Luna Park, Abentheuer Verlag, Berlin 2010
- The memory of objects or the power of things , Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2012
- Die in Florence, Amazon Kdp, 2015
- No kiss , Amazon Kdp, 2015
- Luna Park 2 , Greed Fair , Amazon Kdp and Create Space, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Olivia Kleinknecht in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at/bp98/o_kleinknecht.html
- http://www.lyrikwelt.de/gedichte/kleinknechtg1.htm
- Entry about Olivia Kleinknecht in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- ESSWE
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SURNAME | Kleinknecht, Olivia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mezzatorre, Andrea (pseudonym); Monti, Olivia (pseudonym); Kleinknecht, Natascha (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |