Sylvie Schenk

This article is about the writer Sylvie Schenk. For the athlete, see Sylvia Schenk .

Sylvie Schenk (* 1944 in Chambéry , née Gonsolin) is a German-French writer.

Sylvie Schenk at the ORF Theater at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2016

Life

Sylvie Schenk was born in Chambéry ( France ) in 1944 and grew up in Gap (Hautes-Alpes) . She studied Latin, Greek and French at the Pedagogical University of École normal supérieure de Lyon .

She has lived in Germany since 1966 , where she initially worked as a teacher. From 1976 she began to write as a freelance author for school radio and school book publishers, mainly for the Cornelsen publishing house in Berlin. Together with other authors, she developed the textbook series Réalités and À plus! .

So far she has published the three volumes of poetry Low Noise (1976), Guitares (1979) and Itinéraire (1982). She has been writing novels and short stories in German since 1992. Until 2000 she was a reciter in the Poésique group. To the present day she continues to hold readings together with musicians, especially Heribert Leuchter .

Since 2002 she has been working on a voluntary basis as the initiator and organizer of the Euregio Student Literature Prize . As a linguist, she was co-editor of several French textbooks for high schools and German for high schools . Since 2004, numerous novels by her have appeared, some in rapid succession, including Bodin laughs in 2013 .

At the invitation of Hubert Winkels, Schenk took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2016. In the same year, Hanser published her autobiographical novel Schnell, your life , of which she had read an excerpt during the competition. In short chapters, the author delves into the depths of a life story from the post-war period with stylistic clarity and contemporary force.

The writer lives in Stolberg near Aachen and La Roche-de-Rame , Hautes-Alpes department .

Works

Poetry

• 1976: Low Noise . Paris: Éditions Saint Germain des Prés 1967, ISBN 2-243-00376-7
• 1979: Guitares . Dijon: Possibles 1979
• 1982: Itinéraire / Way . Stolberg: Vlinder op 't S 1982, ISBN 3-88687-004-9

prose

• 1992: The man without a smile . Short prose. In: Seasons of Desire. Düsseldorf / Bensheim: Bollmann Verlag 1992. ISBN 3-927901-22-9
• 1995: back and forth . Novel. Cologne / Basel: Bruckner & Thünker 1995, ISBN 3-905208-13-X
• 1999: Pearls before swine . Short prose. In: Noblesse, Style and Elegance. Edited by Gerhard Köpf. Tübingen: Bankruptcy Book 1999. ISBN 3-88769-145-8
• 1999: the last word . Short stories. Herzogenrath: Shaker Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-8265-6259-3
• 2004: the ritual . Short prose. In: The big cats reading book. Edited by Julia Bachstein. Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling 2004. ISBN 978-3-89561-704-1
• 2004: Today is also another day . Novel. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2004, ISBN 3-608-93691-2
• 2008: The bookseller's daughter . Novel. Vienna: Picus Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-85452-634-6
• 2009: Park offender . Novel. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85452-647-6
• 2011: The runner in the rain . In: Limitless. Edited by Klaus Servene . Mannheim: andiamoverlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-936625-18-9
• 2011: The song of the skin . Novel. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85452-674-2
• 2012: Erik Jansen's departure . Novel. Vienna: Picus Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-85452-689-6 .
• 2013: Bodin laughs . Novel. Vienna: Picus Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7117-2005-4 .
• 2016: Quick, your life . Novel. Munich: Hanser Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-44625-331-5 .

Awards

• 1998: Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen
• 1999: Würth Literature Prize
• 2002: second prize at the Irseer Pegasus

Web links

• Sylvie Schenk , website
• No freedom without sin , review by Daniela Strigl , in: FAZ , February 27, 2012

supporting documents

1. ↑ See ISNI profile
2. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: Rapidly written post-war novel , review in Deutschlandradio Kultur on August 9, 2016, accessed January 31, 2017
3. ↑ Sylvie Schenk - D , Bachmann Prize 2016 at ORF , accessed July 2, 2016
4. ^ Daniela Strigl : The mass of escaped happiness , review in Der_Standard of March 26, 2010, accessed January 31, 2017
5. ↑ Birgit Koß: Unheile Medizinerwelt , review in Deutschlandradio on October 4, 2011, accessed January 31, 2017
6. ↑ In Germany, as a French woman, you are an extra sausage in FAZ on September 29, 2016, page 10