Susanne Stephan

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Susanne Stephan (born January 11, 1963 in Aachen ) is a German writer .

life and work

Susanne Stephan grew up in Haßmersheim in southern Germany. She studied German, history and Romance studies a. a. in Tübingen and Paris (License in History at the University of Paris IV). She also worked for publishers and in the Marbach literature archive . After several years of editing work at Belser-Verlag , she works as a freelance author (poetry, prose, essays, among others, on Ilse Aichinger, Eduard von Keyserling, Joseph Roth, August Stramm and John Cage). Her poems appear in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in the literary magazine Akzente (magazine) and in the yearbook of poetry . Most recently she published an essay on René Descartes on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his dream night from November 10th to 11th, 1619 (FAZ of November 9th, 2019) and the first German translation of texts by Francis Ponge in Sinn und Form 2/20. She lives with her family in Stuttgart, where she has been researching the Stolperstein initiative there since 2008. She is the niece of the children's book illustrator and author Margret Rettich .

Single track

  • Writing. Short prose . Literary Society, Karlsruhe 1997
  • Gas station poems . Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2003
  • Counterspell . Poems, Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2007
  • Three lines . Haiku, Neuer Kunstverlag, Stuttgart 2013
  • Haydn's parrot . Gedichte, Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2015 (Italian edition Manovra d'autunno, translated by Paola del Zoppo, Elliot, Rome 2016)
  • Cloves. A portrait, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018 ("Naturkunden" series, edited by Judith Schalansky )

Awards

  • 2005/2006: Annual grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and Art in Baden-Württemberg
  • 2007: Squidward Troll Prize
  • 2008: Small Hertha Koenig Prize
  • 2009: Scholarship for the German Study Center in Venice
  • 2010: Stay at the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation in Lavigny-Lausanne
  • 2011: Stay at the Fondazione Bogliasco near Genoa
  • 2013: Stay in the artist residence Hawthornden Castle near Edinburgh
  • 2014: Scholarship for the Casa Baldi-Deutsche Akademie Rome in Olevano Romano
  • 2015: Spreewald Literature Scholarship; Guest artist at CERN in Geneva
  • 2018: Heinrich-Heine-Scholarship in Lüneburg
  • 2020: Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop

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personal data
SURNAME Stephan, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen