Rebecca Maria Salentin

Rebecca Maria Salentin (born July 13, 1979 in Eschweiler ) is a German writer .

Life

Rebecca Maria Salentin was born on July 13, 1979 in Eschweiler and grew up in a small village in the Voreifel . She is the daughter of a German and an Israeli. Her paternal grandparents were Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust by hiding in the woods. She attended the Burgau grammar school in Düren and switched to the Anne Frank comprehensive school (Düren) in Mariaweiler in upper school . Before she successfully passed her Abitur , she had her first child. She has lived in Leipzig since 2003 , where she has been running the Zierlich Mannierlich summer café in an old circus wagon between April 1st and October 31st . To date she has published two novels as well as various articles in magazines and anthologies . She lives with her family in Leipzig.

Awards, prizes and grants

• 2005: Participation in the 13th Open Mike
• 2007: three-month residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2007: Participation in the 11th Klagenfurt literature course
• 2008: three-month residency at the Writer's House in Stuttgart
• 2009: Homines-Urbani-Scholarship Villa Decius
• 2012: Scholarship in Hundisburg Castle , Saxony-Anhalt
• 2013: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2015/2016: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
• 2016: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

Works

Novels

• Background knowledge of a piano tuner. Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89561-364-7 .
• Elvis was to blame. C. Bertelsmann Verlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10212-1 .

Anthologies and journals (selection)

• Love letter First impression of you: Embarrassing (in: Die Zeit from July 7, 2016) / also published in: Since then I have been thinking of you all the time: Special love letters . Die Zeit (ed.), Arche Verlag 2017, ISBN 3-7160-2761-8 .

Web links

• Official homepage of Rebecca Salentin
• Author profile of Rebecca Maria Salentin at the Random House publishing group
• Author profile of Rebecca Maria Salentin at Schöffling & Co.