Sarah Meyer-Dietrich

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Sarah Meyer-Dietrich (born October 20, 1980 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German writer who lives and works in the Ruhr area .

Live and act

Sarah Meyer-Dietrich was born as the daughter of the writer Inge Meyer-Dietrich and the pediatrician Helmut Meyer-Dietrich, the youngest of three children. She grew up in Essen and Gelsenkirchen and was invited to Berlin for the Young Authors' Meeting in 1999 . She completed her Abitur in 2000 at the Leibniz Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen-Buer . In 2006 she completed her studies at the Ruhr University Bochum as a graduate economist. Alongside her studies, she was an editor and author at biblioviel Verlag in Bochum. In 2011 she was awarded a PhD at the Chair of Marketing (later: Sales & Marketing Department) at the Ruhr University Bochum. rer. oec. PhD. Your dissertation deals with the question of whether conformity can be classified as social rationality.

Parallel to her work as a research assistant, she took part in the Bronnbacher Scholarship of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft in 2007/2008 . In 2011 she was the official season companion author on the Ruhrtriennale blog .

From 2012 to 2016 Sarah Meyer-Dietrich was the managing director of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis NRW and founded the project family “FlussLandStadt” together with Jugendstil, the children's and youth literature center nrw and the Emschergenossenschaft . Your home, your novel ”. For managing the projects of this project family, in which young people write about their own city or region from various perspectives, she received the Halstenberg award in 2016 from the German Academy for Urban Development and State Planning NRW.

Sarah Meyer-Dietrich has been a freelance writer and lecturer in creative writing since summer 2016. She continues to lead the project family "FlussLandStadt. Your home, your novel". Since 2016 she has also been CARL's clerk for the Carl colliery in Essen. As CARL's writer, she writes blog posts about language and words, among other things.

"You always have to reckon with signal box fires, strikes and day breaks"

After she received several literary prizes for short stories, her debut novel “You always have to reckon with signal box fires, strikes and day breaks” was published in the Ruhrgebiet de luxe series by Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag in summer 2016 . In the novel, a woman seems to travel aimlessly across the Ruhr area on public transport. In the process, she always meets new fellow travelers, whose biographies she tries to read from their faces. More and more these biographies are blurring with the woman's own biography. The coolibri described the novel as a “debut novel that delicately delves into the minds of its protagonists.” WDR 3 described it as “the current mood in the region.” The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “In the end, there will be no panorama, more like a kaleidoscope reality, with insights of painful closeness and accuracy. "

Awards

literature

Projects

  • 2016: Young Europe Award for the project "Tuda and back / People on the river"
  • 2016: Halstenberg commendation from the German Academy for Urban Development and State Planning NRW for its commitment to the project family “FlussLandStadt. Your home, your novel "
  • 2014: 2nd place in the NRW youth culture award for the project "Writing along the river"
  • 2012: 3rd place in the Ruhr Cooperation Prize of the Initiativkreis Ruhr for the project "Writing along the river"

Works

Novels

stories

  • O you happy one. In: Hey you happy. Christmas stories from the Ruhr area. Revised new edition. Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop, 2016, ISBN 978-3-922750-87-1 .
  • Effervescent hearts. In: Budenzauber. Texts about the most beautiful place in the Ruhr area. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1707-1 .
  • The beautiful sparkle. In: Tatort Gasometer. Crime stories. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1508-4 .
  • Close together. In: tight ?! Selected texts from the 3rd Ruhr Literature Competition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1398-1 .
  • Into the misery. In: Directional thing. Journal for young contemporary literature. Book VI. 2013.
  • At the river with E. In: direction thing. Journal for young contemporary literature. Issue V. 2012.
  • Five percent with their eyes closed. In: There is a fire in your head. Alibaba Publishing, 2000.

Essays

  • Where love falls, it should be left behind. In: How is? - Got to. Why people from the Ruhr area sometimes stumble but never fall. Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2016, ISBN 978-3-942094-66-5 .
  • Quality of life in the Ruhr area. Review of the post-IBA generation on urban development in the 1990s. In: Preserving urban development. A program for the 21st century. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1356-1 .

Poems

  • The river Emscher and the moon from Wanne-Eickel. And Essen-Steele. In: Kohlenkönige and Emscherkinder: The big book of the Ruhr area ballads. Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2015, ISBN 978-3-942094-54-2 .
  • Ask. In: If your child asks you tomorrow. Biblioviel Verlag, Bochum 2005.
  • My child and dialogue. In: Because you are close to me. Biblioviel Verlag, Bochum 2005.
  • Various poems in: Menschenskinder. New poems. Terre des Hommes, 2004; Because you live Biblioviel Verlag, 2004; Schoolyard love. Biblioviel Verlag, 2001; What if I fall The courage to be sad. dtv, 2001.

Editing

  • Hey, Emscher! Wow, Volga! A Russian-German underground comic. Comic. With Andrea Weitkamp and Kathrin Oerters. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1552-7 .
  • Welcome @ Emscherland. A cross-culture trilogy. Novel. With Sascha Pranschke and Ipek Abali. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1671-5 .
  • Emschererwachen. An urban fantasy novel. Novel. With Sascha Pranschke. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1424-7 .
  • End station Emscher. Two Hellweg crime novels. Story and play. With Sascha Pranschke and Kathrin Oerters. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1425-4 .
  • Next to the track. A Dülmen thriller. Novel. With Sascha Pranschke. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1423-0 .
  • Frontier workers. A Ruhrpott road movie. Novel. With Inge Meyer-Dietrich and Sascha Pranschke. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1207-6 .
  • Downstream. An Emscher road movie. Novel. With Inge Meyer-Dietrich and Sascha Pranschke. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-1049-2 .
  • Loving You. Anthology. With Elisa Jannasch. Biblioviel Verlag, Bochum 2002.
  • I don't want heaven at all. Anthology. Biblioviel Verlag, Bochum 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meeting of Young Authors - Chronicle. Website of the Berlin Festival. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Team of the Sales & Marketing Department Bochum. Website of the Sales & Marketing Department Bochum. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Conformity as Social Rationality - published dissertation. Website of the Tectum Verlag. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  4. ^ "New doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Economics" Faculty of Economics. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ Bronnbacher Scholarship - Alumni. Website of the Bronnbacher Scholarship. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Exciting articles on the Ruhrtriennale blog" Newsletter of the Ruhrtriennale, August 31, 2011. Retrieved on January 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Project description FlussLandStadt. Your home, your novel. Website of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis NRW. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Friedrich Halstenberg Prize 2016 Semi-annual report of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning 2/2016, p. 27. Accessed on January 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ "May we introduce: Carls Schreiberin" Website of the Zeche Carl. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  10. ^ Carl's scribe 's blog. Carl 's scribe. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ About the novel "You always have to reckon with signal box fires, strikes and daybreak" website of the Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Sarah Meyer-Dietrich: Von Brände & Bruchten" coolibri, August 29, 2016. Accessed January 1, 2017.
  13. ^ "Ruhrgebiet Reloaded: Portrait of the young author Sarah Meyer-Dietrich" WDR 3 Mosaik. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  14. ^ "Loud human stories from the Revier, in a nutshell" Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 7, 2016. Retrieved on January 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Queuing for Gasometer thrillers from WAZ competition" Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 25, 2015. Accessed January 1, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Ruhrpoetinnen. Literature Competition in Women's Hands", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 3, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Regional Association Ruhr and Ruhr Literature Office award four authors / Marianne Brentzel receives main prize of the Ruhr Literature Prize 2014 / Prizes for Frauke Angel, Merle Wolke and Sarah Meyer-Dietrich" Press release Regional Association Ruhr, November 21, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2017.
  18. ^ Text of the month July 14: Sarah Meyer-Dietrich In die Misere Website of the Ruhr Literature Office. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  19. ↑ Richtungsding Website of the literary magazine Richtungsding. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  20. ^ Chronicle of the Meeting of Young Authors Website of the Berliner Festspiele. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  21. ↑ Press release of the Youth Culture Prize 2016 Accessed on January 1, 2017.
  22. ↑ Semi-annual report of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning 2/2016 Retrieved on January 1, 2017.
  23. ↑ Winner Youth Culture Prize 2014. Accessed January 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Dietrich, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th October 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen-Schwenningen