Ruth Johanna Benrath

Ruth Johanna Benrath (born 1966 in Heidelberg ) is a German author who writes poetry, novels, plays and radio plays.

Life

Ruth Johanna Benrath studied German , philosophy and history and did her doctorate in 2004 on the self-image of history teachers from the GDR before and after 1989. She taught at the Free University of Berlin , where she was employed as a research assistant . In addition to her two novels, which have been published by Steidl and Suhrkamp , she has appeared in interdisciplinary art projects and literary performances.

Lyric texts by Ruth Johanna Benrath have appeared in the Yearbook of Poetry and in the literary magazines Sinn und Form , Manuskripte and in the FAZ. Since 2015 she has been writing regularly in the logbook, the literary blog of Suhrkamp Verlag. Her literary writing has been honored with numerous grants and awards.

Ruth Johanna Benrath also writes sound art radio plays. Your piece GOES SEAL! A phonetic radio play dialogue with Elfriede Gerstl (ORF / BR 2019) was voted radio play of the month in April 2019 and subsequently radio play of the year and invited to the Austrian radio play days. Her artistic audio walk on Rosa Luxemburg , produced together with Anna Opel, was funded by the Berlin Senate in 2019 and will be presented by the Mitte-Museum Berlin. This will be followed in 2020 by an audio walk on Albrecht Haushofer on behalf of the German Resistance Memorial Center.

Publications

radio play

Litter broadcast "Sprechtraining" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, first broadcast on May 25, 2020)
Language, my star. Listen to Holderlin. Direction and composition: Ulrike Haage (RBB / BR / Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2020)
We go, we go - for a lifetime! An encounter with Hans Jürgen von der Wense, director: Christine Nagel, composition: Mario Bertoncini (Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2019 / HR 2020)
GO SEAL! A phonetic audio play dialogue with Elfriede Gerstl , director: Christine Nagel, composition: Laureen Newton (ORF / BR 2019)
From the depths. Radio play (RBB 2018)
The coral forest. Sound art radio play for Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (WDR 2017)
Remember me (SWR 2015)

Poetry

Kehllaute , Lunardi Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809935-8-6

prose

Eyelashes made of grass , Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46269-0
Rosa Gott, we praise you , Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-879-7

Non-fiction

Continuity in change: an empirical-qualitative study on the transformation of didactic action by history teachers from the GDR , Schulz-Kirchner Verlag , Idstein 2005, ISBN 978-3-8248-0338-5 .

Awards (selection)

2020: Mini-scholarship from the Children's and Youth Theater Center for the children's play IM WALD (DA SIND)
2020: ORF radio play award for critics for GEH DICHT DICHTIG!

2020: Award from the German Academy for the Performing Arts for Radio Play of the Year for GEH DICHT DICHTIG!

2019: 1st Prize, Swabian Literature Prize , for the drama AUFTAUEN

2019: Nomination of GEH DICHT DICHTIG! for the German radio play award

2019: Radio play of the month April and radio play of the year for GEH DICHT DICHTIG! Audio play dialogue with Elfriede Gerstl

2018: Land-in-Sicht scholarship from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art

2017: Author's grant from the Berlin Senate

2016: Scholarship in the artist village Schöppingen

2016: Scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW for the radio play Der Korallene Wald

2015: 1st prize in the short drama competition Marburg for Mich Mir Merken

2014: Scholarship for the German Children's Theater Prize for Der Junge bei den Fischen

2014: Ich Gülsüm, Du Häschen was included in the “Recommended Pieces” pool as part of the German-Dutch Kaas and Kappes Children's Pieces Prize

2014: Residence grant from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Vézelay
2014: 1st Prize of the Forum of Young Authors at the Landestheater Coburg for class struggles
2013: Residence grant from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
2012: Writer-in-residence scholarship from Allegheny College , Pennsylvania
2012: Scholarship from the State of Lower Saxony at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn
2011: HC Artmann grant from the city of Salzburg
2011: Ms. Ava Literature Prize for Grass Eyelashes
2010: Book of the year Rhineland-Palatinate for Rosa Gott we praise you
2009: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
2008: Working grant from the state of Brandenburg in the Künstlerhaus Wiepersdorf
2008: Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Academy of Arts in Wewelsfleth
2008: Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
2008: Working grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
2007: Working grant from the Berlin Senate
2001: Finalist at the Open Mike of the Berlin Literature Workshop

Web links

Literature by and about Ruth Johanna Benrath in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and information on the work of Ruth Johanna Benrath at Literaturport

Individual evidence

↑ Ruth Johanna Benrath - Suhrkamp Insel Authors Author details. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
↑ Ruth Johanna Benrath. Poet Shop, accessed February 20, 2016 .
^ German Academy of Performing Arts | Radio play of the month / year 2019. Retrieved on May 17, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b "Go tight!" awarded as "Radio Play of the Year". In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
↑ Home. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).
↑ Results of funding contemporary history and remembrance projects. May 9, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
↑ Mitte Museum Berlin | On the trail of Rosa Luxemburg. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
↑ KJTZblog: Start of our virtual season “mit + abstand” with Ruth Johanna Benrath. In: KJTZ - The Blog. April 20, 2020, accessed on May 12, 2020 (German).
↑ SWR2, SWR2: Listen and vote: The candidates for the German Radio Play Prize of ARD. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
↑ Hessischer Literaturrat - A lance for literature. Accessed December 30, 2018 (German).
↑ Funding results literature. February 6, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
↑ Kunststiftung NRW: Kunststiftung NRW. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
↑ Volume 2014 | The portal to children's and youth theater for active and interested people. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
↑ Kaas & Kappes. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
↑ Scholarship holders born in 1987 or later . Accessed December 30, 2018 (English).
↑ Literaturhaus-salzburg.at | HC Artmann literary scholarship. Accessed December 30, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Benrath, Ruth Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg

[1] Ruth Johanna Benrath - Suhrkamp Insel Authors Author details. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .

[2] Ruth Johanna Benrath. Poet Shop, accessed February 20, 2016 .

[3] German Academy of Performing Arts | Radio play of the month / year 2019. Retrieved on May 17, 2019 .

[sn81821083-4] "Go tight!" awarded as "Radio Play of the Year". In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .

[5] Home. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).

[6] Results of funding contemporary history and remembrance projects. May 9, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .

[7] Mitte Museum Berlin | On the trail of Rosa Luxemburg. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .

[8] KJTZblog: Start of our virtual season “mit + abstand” with Ruth Johanna Benrath. In: KJTZ - The Blog. April 20, 2020, accessed on May 12, 2020 (German).

[9] SWR2, SWR2: Listen and vote: The candidates for the German Radio Play Prize of ARD. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .

[10] Hessischer Literaturrat - A lance for literature. Accessed December 30, 2018 (German).

[11] Funding results literature. February 6, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .

[12] Kunststiftung NRW: Kunststiftung NRW. Accessed December 30, 2018 .

[13] Volume 2014 | The portal to children's and youth theater for active and interested people. Accessed December 30, 2018 .

[14] Kaas & Kappes. Accessed December 30, 2018 .

[15] Scholarship holders born in 1987 or later . Accessed December 30, 2018 (English).

[16] Literaturhaus-salzburg.at | HC Artmann literary scholarship. Accessed December 30, 2018 .