Tamara Bach
Tamara Bach (born January 18, 1976 in Limburg ad Lahn ) is a German writer .
Life
Tamara Bach was born in Limburg an der Lahn in 1976 and grew up in Ludwigshöhe, Rhineland-Palatinate. She received critical support from her German teacher at the time, Peter Grosz . In 1993 and 1995 she took part in the renowned Young Authors' Meeting, where she was also awarded. After graduating from high school in 1995, an au pair stay in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In 1996 she began to study in Mainz, after three semesters she moved to Berlin in 1997, where she has lived since then. She studied German and English for teaching at the Free University and graduated in early 2006. In addition to her studies, she worked for television and developed youth plays.
Martian girl is her first book. In 2002 it was awarded the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize as the best unpublished manuscript, and in 2004 the German Youth Literature Prize. She also wrote Busfahrt mit Kuhn , which was also nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize. In 2007 her debut was published as an audio book version, read in by Sandra Hüller .
For Now is Here she also won the LUCHS of the year 2007 (November). Her book What's Left of Summer was Toad of the Month in April 2012.
With her children's drama design The Chicken Lies , she was in the final selection of the Berlin Children's Theater Prize 2019.
Works
- Martian girls. Oetinger, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7891-3152-0 .
- Bus ride with Kuhn. Oetinger, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7891-3156-3 .
- Now is here. Oetinger, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-7891-3169-5 .
- What's left of summer. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 3-5515-8242-4 .
- Images of Mary. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3551582997 .
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Fourteen. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-646-92897-6 .
- Dutch .: Veertien. Translated by Esther Ottens. Amsterdam 2018
- Swedish: Fjorton. Translated by Sofia Lindelöf. Stockholm 2018
- Mouse Sea. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-58380-2 .
- Words with L. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-551-55386-7 .
Awards
- 2002: Oldenburg Children's and Young People 's Book Prize for Martian Girls
- 2003: Lynx of the month September for Martian girls
- 2003: Owl of the month September for Martian girls
- 2004: German Youth Literature Prize for Martian Girls
- 2007: Fire pen : City writer's grant from the Mannheim City Library for children's and youth literature
- 2007: Scholarship holder of the Stuttgart Writers' House
- 2007: Lynx of the month November for Now is here
- 2010: Literature grant from the Berlin Senate for what's left of the summer
- 2011: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis for Marienbilder
- 2012: Toad of the month April for what's left of summer
- 2013: Catholic children's and youth book award for what's left of the summer
- 2013: Franco-German Youth Literature Prize (awarded for the first time; parallel to Marjolaine Jarry, for Pieds nus dans la nuit ), as part of the European Children's and Youth Book Fair in Saarbrücken
- 2016: Landeskind scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
- 2019 lynx of the month april for words with L.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tamara Bach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Tamara Bach at perlentaucher.de
- Reviews of the books by Tamara Bach at Jugendbuchtipps.de
- Scientific review of Tamara Bach's Fourteen on KinderundJugendmedien.de
- Scientific review of Tamara Bach's What 's Left of Summer on KinderundJugendmedien.de
supporting documents
- ↑ The nominations for the Berlin Kindertheaterpreis 2019 , Grips-Theater , accessed May 10, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bach, Tamara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Limburg an der Lahn , Germany |