Tanja Kinkel

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Tanja Kinkel at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

Tanja Kinkel (born September 27, 1969 in Bamberg ) is a German writer who became known as the author of historical novels . She lives in Munich .

life and work

At the age of eight, Kinkel began writing stories and poetry. In 1978 she won a youth literature award and in 1979 she wrote her first novel . In 1987 she received the 1st prize at the Franconian Youth Literature Competition for the best single text.

After graduating from the Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Bamberg , she began studying German , theater and communication studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich in 1988 . In 1991 Kinkel received a scholarship at the University of Television and Film in Munich , which she used to study screenwriting. In 1992 a sponsorship award from the Free State of Bavaria for young writers followed. In the same year she founded the association “Bread and Books eV”, which promotes the education of children in Africa, Germany and India. In 1995 she had a grant from the German Ministry of the Interior in the " Casa Baldi " in Olevano Romano near Rome and in 1996 received a scholarship to the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

In 1997 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the work of Lion Feuchtwanger . In 2001 she was a founding member of the International Feuchtwanger Society in Los Angeles . From 2001 she was on the advisory board of the Bertelsmann Book Club until its dissolution at the end of 2002.

Kinkel is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Federal Association of Young Authors eV (BVjA). Since 2004 she has been a member of the Munich Tower Schreiber .

In 2006, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art appointed her to the Board of Trustees of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia , Bamberg. In the same year, Kinkel was recognized as a creative top performer at the exhibition 100 Heads of Tomorrow .

At the end of 2002 she took part in a homage to Michael Ende's The Neverending Story , the result of dealing with Ende's fantastic world was the novel The King of Fools , published in 2003 . In 2015, with Sleep of Reason , she dedicated herself for the first time to a material from the more recent past, the German autumn of 1977.

In 2017 Tanja Kinkel was the tower clerk in the small town of Abenberg in Central Franconia, the first woman to hold this position. As a result of her work there, she presented the volume of short stories Voices from Abenberg . Also in 2017, the film adaptation of her third novel The Puppeteers was broadcast in two parts on ARD . In 2020, audiobook publisher Audible published her first series, The Prison Doctor, designed for listening .

Works

Novels

  • Madness that gnaws at the heart (novel biography about Lord Byron ), Munich 1990
  • The Lioness of Aquitaine , Munich 1991
  • The Puppeteers , Munich 1993
  • Mondlaub , Munich 1995
  • The shadows of LaRochelle , Munich 1996
  • The prince and the dragon , Stuttgart 1997
  • Under the twin star , Munich 1998
  • The sons of the she-wolf , Munich 2000
  • The King of Fools , Munich 2003
  • Götterdämmerung , Thriller , Frankfurt 2003. Audiobook, Freiburg / Breisgau 2004 ISBN 3-89964-043-8
  • Venus Throw , Munich 2006
  • Pillars of Eternity , Munich 2008
  • In the shadow of the queen , Munich 2010
  • The game of the nightingale , Munich 2011
  • The fourth witness , construction, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-7466-2879-0
  • Seduction , Munich 2013
  • Manduchai, the last warrior queen , Munich 2014
  • The problem child , Perry Rhodan booklet novel, Volume 2757, Rastatt 2014
  • Sleep of Reason , Munich 2015
  • Grimms Murders , Munich 2017

stories

  • 2017 Voices from Abenberg

play

  • 2002 premiere of the dramolet God's judgment on the Domplatz in Bamberg
  • 2007 You are to give the emperor what is of the emperor and pray for us sinners

radio play

  • 2020 The Prison Doctor, Audible audio book series

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tanja Kinkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Duhm-Heitzmann: The child prodigy Tanja Kinkel: At 19 the first novel and today millions of copies. In: zeit.de. January 10, 1997, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dirk Kruse: Tanja Kinkel: Sleep of Reason. In: br.de. September 8, 2015, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Tilla Schnickmann: Tanja Kinkel: Voices from Abenberg. In: br.de. August 2, 2019, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Sebastian Linstädt: "The Puppeteers": Torch dance in the Fugger period. In: nordbayern.de. December 20, 2017, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Theresa Parstorfer: "I thought very banally: You can't tell by looking at him". In: sueddeutsche.de. March 1, 2020, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ A spectrum that impresses . In: inFranken.de . ( infranken.de [accessed on August 11, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kinkel, Tanja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg