Tania Witte
Tania Witte (* in Trier , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German writer .
Career
Tania Witte grew up in Trier and writes novels for young people and adults. She has received numerous awards for her work. In addition, the graduate media and adult educator works as a freelance journalist, editor and film, music and literary critic. In addition, she gives workshops on creative writing, spoken word (poetry slam), performance and identity, moderates events, gives lectures and leads discussions.
In 2013, the serialized novel “Lust. Ironically “in the daily newspaper (taz). From 2014 to 2018 she wrote, alternating first with Daniel Schreiber and then with Steffen Jan Seibel, the column “Andersrum ist nicht better” for ZEITmagazin Online, which was awarded the Felix Rexhausen Special Prize.
Since 2018 Tania Witte has also been writing fantastic , surreal youth novels together with Antje Wagner under the pseudonym Ella Blix .
In addition, Witte is part of interdisciplinary art projects and has been dedicated to the art of spoken word since 2007 . In 2019 she lived and worked as a Mannheim city clerk for three months in the tower room of the old fire station.
Witte lives in Berlin and in The Hague, the Netherlands .
Works
Individual publications
- The silence between the seconds . Novel. Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-401-60474-9 .
- at best everything . Novel. Querverlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89656-224-1 .
- live by the way . Novel. Querverlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89656-202-9 .
- or love . Novel. Querverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89656-185-5 .
Releases as Ella Blix
- Wild. They hear you think . Novel. Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-401-60510-4
- The bill . Novel. Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-40160-413-8
Audio book
- The silence between the seconds . Rubikon Audio-Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-945986-90-5
Co-editing
- Drag kings. With beard glue against patriarchy . Querverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89656-142-8
Anthologies (selection)
- Hundred lines (excerpt) in: Man is free - area drafts , Michael Au and Alexander Wasner (eds.), Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018.
- Metamorphosis in: Unicorns don't swim , Antje Wagner (ed.), AvivA Verlag, Berlin 2016.
- 162 in: A thousand deaths , Christiane Frohmann (ed.), Frohmann Verlag, Berlin 2015.
- Home port in: home. Bankruptcy register 49 , Corinna Waffender (ed.), Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen 2010.
- Strategy games in: Irresistible! The art of lesbian flirting , Andrea Bocka (ed.), Querverlag, Berlin 2010.
- QueerFemme. From the lively (experiencing) life of a non-existence in: Femme! radical - queer - feminine , Sabine Fuchs (ed.), Querverlag, Berlin 2009.
Honors
Awards in general
- 2020 literary grant from the German Literature Fund together with Antje Wagner as "Ella Blix"
- 2019 literary scholarship from the Rhineland Palatinate Ministry for Science, Further Education and Culture
- 2019 winner of the Mannheim fire pen
- 2018 literary scholarship from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
- 2017 Martha Saalfeld sponsorship award from the Ministry for Education, Science, Further Education and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2017 scholarship holder of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
- 2016 special prize at the Felix Rexhausen Prize together with Steffen Jan Seibel
- 2016 nomination for the Martha Saalfeld Prize of the Ministry of Education, Science, Further Education and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2015 scholarship from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (NL)
- 2015 scholarship holder of the Besiendershuis, Nijmegen (NL)
- 2014 nomination for the Mannheim fire pen , shortlist best three
- 2011 scholarship from the Pioneer Bluffs Foundation, Kansas (US)
Awards for individual books
- for the silence between the seconds : Kimi seal for diversity in the youth book 2020
- for Der Schein : Nomination for the Golden Leslie 2019
- for unicorns don't swim : list of recommendations from the city of Zurich "Gender-sensitive books for children and young people" (winter 2016), list of recommendations from the canton of Basel “books for children and young people without stereotypes” (spring / summer 2017)
Web links
- Literature by and about Tania Witte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's website
- Website of the author duo Ella Blix
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- ↑ http://www.taz.de/!t13229/ Website of the serial novel on the daily newspaper (taz). Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.zeit.de/autoren/W/Tania_Witte/index
- ↑ https://www.ellablix.com/wer-ist-ella
- ↑ http://www.riskhazekamp.com/WBC.php
- ↑ http://www.riskhazekamp.com/0815startpage.php
- ^ Adventure city writing - Fire pen scholarship holder Tania Witte , SWR2 Tandem July 2, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019
- ↑ http://www.querverlag.de/autoren/Tania-Witte.html
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/drag-kings-der-mann-ist-eine-frau/863046.html
- ↑ Results of the Board of Trustees meeting of the German Literature Fund on November 18 and 19, 2019
- ^ Literature grant
- ↑ Mannheim fire pen
- ^ Literature grant
- ↑ KIMI seal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Witte, Tania |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trier , Rhineland-Palatinate |