Susanne Berkenheger

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Susanne Berkenheger (born June 24, 1963 in Maulbronn ) is a German artist , author and satirist .

Life

Susanne Berkenheger grew up in Stuttgart and studied Italo-Romance Philology, Modern German Literature and German as a Foreign Language in Erlangen , Nuremberg , Munich and Rome . As a journalist she worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . She became known in 1997 with her first hyperfiction time for the bomb , with which she won the Pegasus competition of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and which is now considered a classic of the genre. Her successor works have also received several awards.

Since 2005 Berkenheger has turned more and more away from hypertext and experimented with the possibilities of actionist media art . Her subjects are mostly technical and economic developments in the social space of the Internet, which she works on satirically and subversively. The internet art project accountleichenbewegung.de brought her a lot of media attention in 2007 , and other projects received national and international attention. Berkenheger's works have been exhibited in Amsterdam , São Paulo , Rio de Janeiro , Hong Kong , Tokyo , New York and Montréal , among others .

As a playwright, Susanne Berkenheger was part of the experimental chat theater project Battle of the Authors in 2000 , her play I'll die equal, Schatz was premiered in Münster in 2004 .

In 2011 Berkenheger published together with Klaus Ungerer the satirical non-fiction book "Please press the one. Welcome to the service hell". Susanne Berkenheger is a member of the satirical editorial team "Spam" on Spiegel Online .

Honourings and prices

  • 1st prize Pegasus Internet Literature Competition , 1997
  • 1st Prize Ettlinger Internet Literature Competition , 1999
  • Funded by the German Literature Fund , 2001
  • 2nd prize literatur.digital , 2002
  • Working grant from the Thyll-Dürr-Foundation on Elba, together with Klaus Ungerer , 2003
  • Ciutat de Vinaròs International Prize for Digital Literature, Barcelona, ​​Spain, 2005
  • Working grant from the International Die Höge Foundation , 2004
  • Working grant in the artist village Schöppingen , 2007
  • CYNETART Prize 2008
  • Virtual Residency Location One , New York, 2008
  • Bremen network residence , 2009
  • Prague Literature Fellowship 2.0 , 2010

Works

  • Time for the Bomb, Hyperfiction, 1997
  • Help !, Hyperfiction, 1999
  • Battle of the Authors (together with Martina Kieninger , Gerald Anetzhuber and Christian Hempel), 2000
  • The swimming champion, 2002
  • The Worldwatchers, fictional weblog (together with Gisela Müller), 2003
  • I'm about to die honey, 2004
  • The Bubble Bath, 2005
  • accountleichenbewegung.de, 2007
  • Berlin Ambush Votings, 2008
  • The Last Days of Second Life, 2009/10
  • Augmented Bombings, 2011
  • Please press the Eins, Sachbuch, Ullstein, Berlin 2011 (together with Klaus Ungerer ), ISBN 3-548-37416-6
  • In Account Corpses We Trust, 2012
  • Is definitely something psychological , Goldmann Verlag , 2014, ISBN 978-3442157990

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personal data
SURNAME Berkenheger, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, author and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Maulbronn