Silke Andrea Schuemmer

Silke Andrea Schuemmer (born June 20, 1973 in Aachen ) is a German writer , art historian and freelance journalist . She writes novels , short stories , poetry and essays .

Life

Silke Andrea Schuemmer studied art history , German literature and philosophy in Aachen from 1992 to 2001 and received her doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on Maria Lassnig . She is married to Marcus Jensen and lives in Berlin.

The algae strand tastes triptych or salty. (With frottages by Wolf Spies .) Edition fiebig, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-930516-10-1
The shape of the fish is its knowledge of water (with woodcuts by Krzysztof Jarzebinski ). Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-922510-89-2 .
Once from the outside, then from the inside - the constitution of the self in Maria Lassnig's self-portraits, her pictorial implementation of feelings and sensations and the question of the transferability of the literary concept of the 'inner monologue' to self-portraits . Diss. Aachen 2002.
Rema's house . Roman, kookbooks Idstein / Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-937445-10-2 .
Fishing mermaids . Roman, bankruptcy register Tübingen 2017 ISBN 978-3-88769-569-9 .

1991: Laureate Meeting of Young Authors
1993: Hattinger Award for Young Literature
1994: Residence grant from the Berlin Cultural Senate at the Berlin Literary Colloquium
1994: Scriptwriting writer's workshop, Catholic Media Academy Ludwigshafen
1995: Working grant from the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia
1996: Grant from Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop
1996: Foglio Literature Prize
1997: Christine Lavant Prize for Poetry, Wolfsberg (A)
1997: Culture Prize of the City of Selm
1998: Town clerk of Otterndorf
1999: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize for Literature
2000: Ridge Walk Prize
2002: Springorum commemorative coin from RWTH Aachen University
2003: Literature Prize of the Graz Academy (A)
2005: Walter Serner Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation
2006: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
2007: Agatha Christie detective award
2009: Limburg Prize from the Bad Dürkheim Art Association
2016: postpoetry.NRW Poetry Prize of the Society for Literature in NRW
2019: 2nd prize at the 30th Würth Literature Prize of the Tübingen Poetics Lecturer

personal data
SURNAME	Schuemmer, Silke Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, art historian and freelance journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen