Svenja Leiber

Svenja Leiber (2018)

Svenja Leiber (* 1975 in Hamburg ) is a German writer . She lives in Berlin .

life and work

Svenja Leiber grew up in Northern Germany and lived in Saudi Arabia for some time as a child . In 1995 she went to Berlin and studied literature, history and art history there. She completed her studies with an adaptation of the "feminine" in the work of Goethe and Thomas Mann, stayed in Russia for long periods of time, worked in various art collections and as a lecturer in literary writing, among others. a. in the prose workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, together with Ulla Lenze , and in the Bavarian Academy of Writing, together with Sandra Hoffmann .

To date, Leiber has published the volume of short stories Büchsenlicht , as well as the novels Schipino, The Last Land and Dust . For her stories and novels she received numerous awards and grants, reading and research trips took her a. a. to Ukraine, Cuba, Canada, Jordan, Syria and Israel. Your texts have been translated into several languages.

"Leiber's great quality consists in raising questions and following them even without the prospect of an answer. They aim at the self-image of art and its moral obligation, want to sound out an individual's scope for decision-making, his character by origin and the course of time, his ability, guilt and to bear responsibility. " Carsten Hueck, ORF.

Paul Jandl wrote about Leiber's latest novel "Staub" : "The novel is full of strange moments and arabesques of the human. Existential questions shimmer through them and the astonishing cleverness of a novel that does not want to sacrifice its claim to superficial realism. " NZZ , March 23, 2018

Leiber lives and works with the artist Ulf Aminde in Berlin, has two daughters and is u. a. Part of "Weitererschritten", a portal for literary collaboration with refugee authors.

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Autograph

Books

• Büchsenlicht , Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-250-60081-4 .
• Schipino , Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-206-0 .

• The Last Land , Suhrkamp Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3518424148 .
• Staub , Suhrkamp Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42790-3 .

Audio books

• Büchsenlicht , read by Karoline Eichhorn , Hörkultur 2007, ISBN 978-3952308769
• The last country , read by Burghart Klaußner , Audio Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3862313587

Translations

• Translation Schipino : Edicija Bozicevic, Zagreb 2011
• Translation Schipino : Gondolat, Budapest 2012
• Translation The Last Land : Malpaso, Barcelona 2014
• Translation The Last Land : Cellar editore, Rovereto 2016
• Translation The Last Land : Seagull Books , Calcutta 2017

Contributions to anthologies and magazines

• Yellow seeks bald head , in: Edit No. 12, 2004
• Wesenberg , in: "Du", magazine for culture No. 30, 2006
• Heimat, Ecke Berlin , in: Das Berliner Kneipenbuch, Eds. Björn Kuhligk and Tom Schulz, Berlin 2006
• Schipino (excerpt), in: BELLA triste No. 27
• The old man and the empty , in: Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition “cam”, Valeria Heisenberg, Stadt-Museum Groß-Gerau, 2009
• Be true to your school , in: "When I grow up, I'll become a poet", early texts by well-known authors, edited by Florian Werner , Arche 2015
• The fourth king , in: Alles Lametta, New Christmas Stories, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015
• Contribution in: Mimicry: The game of reading, eds. Holm Friebe and Philipp Albers, Blumenbar 2016
• How I stopped wanting to understand the other where I don't even understand myself , in: How we want to live, Ed. Matthias Jügler, Suhrkamp 2016
• An old butterfly , in: New prose from Schleswig-Holstein: Eds. Sara Dusanic and Dr. Wolfgang Sandfuchs. (Edition Literaturhaus) 2016
• What do you say when you say life In: Series of publications by the city of Speyer, Vol. 21, 2018
• Contribution in: The heart does not leave a place where it hangs, eds. Annika Reich and Lina Muzur, Ullstein, Berlin 2018
• Glare and fade , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 5, 2019

Posts on the Internet

• Language as self-defense , in: Logbook Suhrkamp

Awards

• 2003: Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize
• 2006: Prize for the Literature Prize of the City of Bremen
• 2006: "Cross-border commuter grant" from the Robert Bosch Foundation
• 2007: Berlin Senate Scholarship
• 2007: Sponsorship award for the Kranichstein Literature Prize
• 2008: Funding by the Lower Saxony Cultural Foundation
• 2009: Werner Bergengruen Prize
• 2011: Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft (shortlist)
• 2012: Scholarship from the Else Heiliger Fund
• 2013: Nomination for the Alfred Döblin Prize
• 2014: Heinrich Heine Scholarship , Lüneburg
• 2014: Schleswig-Holstein Culture Prize "New Prose"
• 2015: Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize
• 2015: Working grant from the Berlin Senate
• 2018: Spreewald Literature Scholarship
• 2019: " Text & Language 2019" (shortlist)
• 2019: Nomination for the Alfred Döblin Prize
• 2019: Alfred Döblin Scholarship

Web links

Commons : Svenja Leiber  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Svenja Leiber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Svenja Leiber at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and information on Svenja Leiber's work at Literaturport
• Website from Svenja Leiber

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Log book Suhrkamp | The online magazine from Suhrkamp Verlag. Retrieved January 9, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Press release of the city of Speyer ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.