Susanne Schädlich

Susanne Schädlich (born November 29, 1965 in Jena ) is a German writer and literary translator .

Susanne Schädlich (at the Rheingau Literature Festival 2009)

Live and act

Susanne Schädlich was born in Jena in 1965, but grew up predominantly in the Märchenviertel in Berlin-Köpenick . Her father is the writer Hans Joachim Schädlich , her mother the publishing editor Krista Maria Schädlich. She is the granddaughter of the Jena university professor Arno Hübner . In December 1977 she traveled with her parents and younger sister from the GDR to the Federal Republic, first to Hamburg, then to West Berlin. After eleven years in the Federal Republic of Germany, Susanne Schädlich went to the USA, to Los Angeles. After a few years of doing different jobs, she made her first literary translations.

She also worked at the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies . In 1995 she received a scholarship from the University of Southern California . She studied modern German philology. In 1999 she returned to Germany. Since then she has lived in Berlin.

In 2009, Susanne Schädlich published the autobiographical story Immer wieder December. The West, the Stasi, the uncle and me . In it she rolls up the story of her family and that of her trusted uncle Karlheinz Schädlich , who spied on the family for years as an unofficial employee of the "Stasi". In 2014 her novel Mr. Huebner and the Siberian Nightingale was published .

Awards

Awards and grants

• 2009: Nomination for the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize (With again and again December .)
• 2010: Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Dickinson College Carlisle (USA)
• 2011: Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College , Ohio (USA)
• 2011/2012: Literature grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
• 2012: Literature grant from the city of Berlin
• 2015: Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize

Works

Novels and short stories

• November. In: Wolf Biermann and others: The expatriation. Beginning of the end of the GDR. Fritz Pleitgen (Ed.). Ullstein, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89834-044-9 , pp. 168-171.
• Karen Horney - Freud's rival. Kreuz, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-7831-2709-2 .
• Nowhere from anywhere. Novel. Plöttner, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938442-30-2 .
• Family pieces - a search for clues. With Daniel Hope . Biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-62216-8 .
• December again and again - the West, the Stasi, the uncle and me. Droemer, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-27463-7 . / Extended edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-78684-0 .
  • Mijn oom, vriend en verrader - hoe de Stasi my family ontwrichtte. Dutch by Henriëtte van Weerdt-Schellekens . Cossee, Amsterdam 2009.
• Westward as far as possible. A search for land. Droemer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-27543-6 .
• Mr. Huebner and the Siberian nightingale. Novel. Droemer, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-19975-6 .

Non-fiction

• Letters without signature. How a BBC program challenged the GDR. Knaus, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8135-0749-2 .

Translations

• Nadez̆da Obradović (ed.): The search for the rain god. African short stories. Econ, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-612-27162-8 .
• Robert Hellenga: The Forbidden Book of Desires. Novel. Marion von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-547-74254-4 . / Heyne, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-453-13099-5 .
• Aron Ralston : In the Canyon : Five days and nights until the most difficult decision of my life. Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-550-07620-7 .
  • Special edition: 127 Hours - In the Canyon : Five days and nights until the most difficult decision of my life. Ullstein, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-37408-6 .
• Waiter: The bill, please. Confessions of a waiter. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-78313-9 .
• Nicholas Evans : The ones we love the most. Structure, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-352-00815-3 .
• Sheila Bugler : Fog game. Translated from the English by Susanne Schädlich. Droemer Kanur, 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-51655-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Schädlich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Susanne Schädlich at perlentaucher.de
• Website by Susanne Schädlich
• Text The best to those who wait by Susanne Schädlich. From: On the 75th birthday of Hans Joachim Schädlich. In: glosses. 31/2011, at Dickinson College , accessed February 3, 2016.
• Susanne Schädlich ( Memento from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the Plöttner Verlag website (archive version, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ East, West, East. ( Memento of October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, 88 KB.) Interview by Katharina Bendixen. In: Kunststoff , 2007, pp. 28-29. On the Plöttner-Verlag website, accessed on February 3, 2016. (archive version)
2. ^ Max Kade Center - Writers in Residence since 1994. From Dickinson College website , accessed February 3, 2016. (English)
3. ^ German Writers in Residence. From Oberlin College website , accessed February 3, 2016. (English)
4. ↑ Sigrid Hoff: How the uncle spied on the family. Meeting on June 17, 2009 at Deutsche Welle . Retrieved February 3, 2016.
5. ↑ book Portrait on the website of the publisher, retrieved (Dutch) on February 3, 2016
6. ↑ Eleven years in the USA. Conversation with Stefan Melk based on the book. Radio broadcast on April 20, 2011 on MDR Figaro .
7. ↑ Reading sample and press reviews on the publisher's website, accessed on February 3, 2016.