Tanja Jeschke

Tanja Jeschke (born September 22, 1964 in Pretoria ) is a German writer and literary critic.

life and work

Tanja Jeschke spent the first five years of her life in South Africa until the family moved to Germany in the Lüneburg Heath . After graduating from high school , she studied German and Protestant theology at the Georg August University of Göttingen and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg , where she completed a master's thesis on Jurek Becker's novel Jakob the Liar .

After traveling through South Africa and Namibia , Tanja Jeschke wrote essays and literary reviews for various magazines (including literaturblatt, neue deutsche literature , Zeitzeichen ) and newspapers (including Nürnberger Nachrichten , Passauer Neue Presse , Stuttgarter Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung ). From 1988 to 1991 she was a member of the editorial board of the Lutheran monthly magazine , one of the predecessor titles of Zeitzeichen . In 1991 she was part of the founding team of the magazine Metamorphosen at the German Department of Heidelberg University.

After Tanja Jeschke had published the radio play How the Lion Grim Came to Africa in 1976 on what was then Süddeutscher Rundfunk, her first book for children was published in 2001 and her first volume of prose in 2003. In 2011 Tanja Jeschke published her first novel.

Tanja Jeschke is married to the author Mathias Jeschke and lives in Stuttgart . She is a member of the international artist community DAS RAD.

Publications (selection)

prose

• A child flies away. Roman, Edition Voss in Horlemann Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89502-319-4 .
• Fat booty word. Stories, Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag , Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-937667-25-6 .

Literature for children

• The secret of the white Persian kitten (illustrations by Miriam Elze), fontis, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-0384-8046-4 .
• Paulina from the Kürbisstraße (illustrations by Constanze Spengler), fontis, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-0384-8016-7 .
• The big Bible for children (illustrations by Marijke ten Cate), German Bible Society , Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-438-04070-1 .
• The big family book for the Christmas season (illustrations by Barbara Korthues), Thienemann Verlag , Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-522-30177-0 .
• Everybody listen! Shouted the King. Poems (illustrations by Eva Schöffmann-Davidov), Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-522-30150-3 .
• Mama, Papa and Zanele (illustrations by Jutta Garbert), Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-522-30115-2 .
• Carolin and the thing with the stolen clunkers (illustrations by Frauke Bahr), Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-522-30088-9 .
• A year with Marie (illustrations by Marina Rachner), Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-522-30067-4 .
• I see what you do not see (illustrations by Sabine Waldmann-Brun), Pattloch Verlag , Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-629-00907-4 .

Awards

• 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2020: Scholarship from the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg
• 2002: Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• 2005: Author support program of the Lower Saxony Foundation
• 2015: Residence grant in the Brecht House in Svendborg / Denmark
• 2015: Christian Book Prize 2015 for The Big Bible for Children , German Bible Society , Stuttgart

Web links

• Literature by and about Tanja Jeschke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Tanja Jeschke at Literaturport