Sünje Lewejohann
Sünje Lewejohann (* 1972 in Flensburg ) is a German writer .
Life
Lewejohann grew up in a village near Flensburg and went to the Danish grammar school Duborg-Skolen . After graduating from high school in 1992, she studied Scandinavian and German studies in Kiel and Berlin. The Flensburg author began to write professionally in 2000. From 2002 to 2005 she was a student at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and from 2004 to 2005 she was co-editor of the literary magazine Edit (magazine) . She is also a member of the authors' forum Der Goldene Fisch . In 2003 Lewejohann took part in the final round of the Open Mike competition at the Berlin Literature Workshop and in the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt . There she submitted her story Im Fernschatten , which was characterized by numerous parataxes . In 2004 she received a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop as well as a scholarship from the Arno Schmidt Foundation and the Nordkolleg Rendsburg .
Her debut novel, a novel about the fictional village “Munk”, was published in 2005 under the title On Sunday God wants to catch his breath . In the same year, the school graduate took part in the Prosanova literature festival in Hildesheim . Five years later, in 2010, she received the Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize for a selection of her poems. In 2013 she followed her first volume of poetry with the title In den Hirschen .
Sünje Lewejohann is the mother of two children and now lives in Berlin .
Works
- God wants to catch his breath on Sunday . Roman, DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 2005
- in the deer . Poems, Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , Leipzig 2013
- the idiotic weight of your eyelashes . Poems, Parasite Press, Cologne 2020
Scattered publications (selection)
- In the fern shade . Story in: BELLA triste , No. 8, Hildesheim 2003.
- The burning . Story in: Edit , No. 33, Leipzig 2003.
- Kattens æg . Excerpt from cat egg in Danish translation in: Bogens Verden , Copenhagen 2009
- Fellerhye. Poems in: Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009, Frankfurt am Main 2009
- Poems in: Neue Rundschau 4/2010, Lyrikosmose², Frankfurt am Main 2010
- Poems in: Yearbook of Poetry 2011 , Munich, 2011
- Poems in: Ostragehege , No. 65 I / 12, Dresden 2012
- Poems in: Yearbook of Poetry 2013 , Munich 2013
- Poems in: Yearbook of Poetry 2015 , Munich 2015
- Poems in: Yearbook of Poetry 2017, Frankfurt am Main 2017
- Poems in: Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2018, Frankfurt am Main 2018
- Write animals in the grass, essay, in Poetin No. 25, Poetenladen, Leipzig 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Sünje Lewejohann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Poetry by Sünje Lewejohann at der-goldene-fisch.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Anne Kraume: The sloshing of the waves. In: The daily newspaper . March 16, 2005, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Duborg-Samfundet 2015. (PDF) Duborg-Skolen , Duborg-Samfundet, p. 29 , accessed on July 18, 2016 (Danish).
- ↑ a b Steffen Richter: It would be better to stay inside. Texts from the Leipzig Laboratory of Young German Literature. In: The world . May 31, 2003, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Harald Loch: Bachmann Prize: More women in the jury. Klagenfurt: The literary marathon with Iris Radisch begins the day after tomorrow. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 23, 2003, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Sünje Lewejohann. In: Literature Port. Literarisches Colloquium / Brandenburgischer Literaturverein, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
- ^ "Clean craft", split in jury and a first favorite. In: derStandard.at . June 27, 2003, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Harald Klauhs: Bachmann Competition: Halftime in Klagenfurt. Interim conclusion: perplexity with the jury, in literature Erste meets Third World. In: DiePresse.com . June 28, 2003, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Katrin Schuster: When the beetle makes a noise in your head. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 28, 2005, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ^ Axel Hammerl: Literary Newcomers. The "Prosanova" festival for young German literature. Deutschlandfunk , May 27, 2005, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
- ^ Anton Thuswaldner: Andre Rudolph as a surprise winner: Competition of poets in Meran. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 12, 2010, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Moritz Scheper: Scratchy Dasein. A collection of poems by Sünje Lewejohann. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 2, 2014, accessed July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Arno Widmann: Cleared from the bedside table: 187,500 poems on. In: Pearl Divers . June 3, 2015, accessed July 18, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lewejohann, Sünje |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |