Sarah Schmidt (author)
Sarah Schmidt (* 1965 in Dinslaken , Niederrhein, Germany) is a German writer and author.
Life
Sarah Schmidt has lived in Berlin (then West Berlin ) since 1976 . She has lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 1981 and has had a son since 1985.
In 1992 she published her first texts, including in the literary magazine Salbader . Between 1995 and 1998 she was a member of the Reformbühne Heim & Welt in Berlin. From 1996-2016 she was a permanent member of the Berlin reading stage Der Frühschoppen . For many years she was the only woman on the Berlin reading stages.
In 2003 she received a two-month residency at Ledig House (New York), where the manuscript of the novel "Then let's do it ourselves" was created.
Between 2004 and 2006 Schmidt wrote as a music critic for the magazine beam me up; Between 2005 and 2007 she regularly published a football column in the daily newspaper (“Sarah BSC”).
In 2006 she worked on a play about Billie Holiday (Strange Fruit), which premiered in Gelsenkirchen in October 2006. In 2007 she dealt with her book “Bad Dates” and worked literarily in an architecture project on the occasion of the International Building Exhibition in Halberstadt that same year . In 2014 her novel “Eine Tonne für Frau Scholz” was published, which was voted one of the ten best books of the year on the hotlist . In 2017 the successor “Far Away is Different” was released.
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- Then we'll do it ourselves . Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935843-41-0 (novel).
- Bad dates . Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-95-9 (short stories).
- Please not kind . Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940426-61-1 (short stories).
- A ton for Ms. Scholz . Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943167-78-8 (novel).
- Far away is different . Suhrkamp , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-36256-2 (novel).
Awards
- 2015: Scholarship from the Berlin Senate
Web links
- Literature by and about Sarah Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sarah Schmidt - Official website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinslaken , Lower Rhine, Germany |