Sibylle Knauss

Portrait of Sibylle Knauss

Sibylle Knauss (born July 5, 1944 in Unna ) is a German writer .

biography

Knauss studied German , English and theology in Munich and Heidelberg . From 1970 she worked in high school education, since 1981 she has been working as a freelance author. She lived and worked in the Saarland medium-sized town of St. Ingbert for over 20 years . Sibylle Knauss is the author of numerous novels. In addition to her work as a writer, she works as a professor at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy ( Ludwigsburg ) in the field of scripts. She is a member of the PEN Center Germany . Sibylle Knauss lives in Remseck near Stuttgart .

Prizes and awards

Already her first work, Ach Elise or Lieben ist ein Lonely Business , was awarded the prize of the New Literary Society in Hamburg in 1982.

In 2002 the New York Times voted the bestseller Eva's cousin among the “Books of the Year”.

In July 2006 Sibylle Knauss was awarded the " Saarland Art Prize (Literature)". The jury said: “The clear composition of your novels is particularly worth mentioning. Her major topics are excellently researched, one has to attest Sibylle Knauss an excellent literary treatment of her subjects. For her novels, she consistently chooses predominantly historical female characters, whose lives she describes in a special way. Sibylle Knauss' language is free of ideological baggage, her novels read with pleasure. ”Saarland's Minister of Culture Jürgen Schreier described Knauss as“ an outstanding literary ambassador for our country ”.

In 2007, Sibylle Knauss was included in the list of “50 important women from the Saarland” by the state working group on municipal women's representatives in Saarland.

Reviews

“Knauss' talent proves itself time and again in the successful combination of facts and fiction. So also in Eden . Here she shows herself to be a master of the biographical novel. His greatest strengths lie in the life of the adventurer Mary Leakey . Style, wit and color sparkle in it "

- Edelgard Abenstein : DeutschlandRadio Kultur

Publications (selection)

• Oh Elise, or, love is a lonely business. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-03860-3 ( Elise Lensing )
• The study. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe , Hamburg 1983
• Erlkönig's daughters . Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1985
• Charlotte Corday . Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1988
• Uninvited guests. Novel. Droemer Knaur , Munich 1991 ISBN 3-455-03864-6
• School of storytelling - a guide. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1995 ISBN 3-596-12885-4 ;
  • revised New edition: School of storytelling. A guide for novelists and screenwriters. Authors' House, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-86671-011-9
• The night with Paul. Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996 ISBN 3-426-65103-3
• The missionary. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1997 ISBN 3-455-03866-2
• Eva's cousin. Novel. Claassen, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-546-00236-9
• Feet in the fire. Novel. Claassen, Hamburg 2003 ISBN 3-546-00288-1
• The Marquise de Sade. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-03867-0
• Eden. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2009 ISBN 978-3-455-40144-8
• Stranger. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012 ISBN 978-3-455-40358-9
• The love memory. Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer , Tübingen 2015 ISBN 978-3-86351-092-3

literature

• Helga Abret: In the twilight of distance and closeness. On Sibylle Knauss' novel “Charlotte Corday” (1988) . In: Helga Abret, Ilse Nagelschmidt (Eds.): Between distance and proximity. A generation of women authors in the 80s. (= Convergences. 6). Peter Lang, Bern et al. 1998, ISBN 3-906759-98-9 , pp. 211-234.
• Katharina Schnell: On subjectivity in the reception and interpretation of works using the example of the author Sibylle Knauss. Proseminar work. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz 1998.
• Simplice Agossavi: Foreign hermeneutics in contemporary German literature using examples from Uwe Timm , Gerhard Polt , Urs Widmer , Sibylle Knauss, Wolfgang Lange and Hans Christoph Buch . (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Literary Studies , Volume 77). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2003, ISBN 3-86110-339-7 (dissertation Saarland University 2002, speaker: Gerhard Sauder, 186 pages).

Web links

• Literature by and about Sibylle Knauss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sibylle Knauss in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• The official website with blog
• Press release Hoffmann & Campe
• Book review "Eva's cousin"
• Deutschlandradio Kultur
• Biblionomicon
• Sibylle Knauss at WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saarland Art Prize 2006 for the writer Sibylle Knauss ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2011 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. Article on the web server of the Saarland Ministry of Education. 
2. ↑ 50 important women from Saarland (PDF) ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Publication of the state working group for municipal women's representatives in Saarland. 
3. ↑ Edelgard Abenstein: The married dramas of our great ancestors. Sibylle Knauss: Eden , Hoffmann and Campe Verlag 2009, 381 pages. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. March 24, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2018 . 
4. ↑ CV Simplice Agossavi