Tanja Schwarz

The author Tanja Schwarz

Tanja Schwarz (born December 1, 1970 in Hechingen ) is a German writer .

Life

Schwarz grew up in Balingen and Reutlingen . After graduating from high school in 1990, she took acting and singing lessons . From 1992 to 1994 she studied theater and film studies at the Free University of Berlin and from 1994 to 1996 sociology and German studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1996, Schwarz, who had started writing narrative prose in the 1980s , attended the German Literature Institute in Leipzig; she completed this course in 2000 with a diploma . After stays in Leipzig and Berlin , the author lives in Hamburg (as of 2016).

In 2002, Schwarz received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation , the Arno Schmidt Foundation and the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, and in 2005 he received a scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg.

Since 1996, Schwarz has published in magazines such as Edit and in anthologies. In 1998, Was macht Pepper appeared in The End of the Nibelungs and other stories in the annual selection of the MDR literature competition at the Faber & Faber publishing house .

In 2001 her volume of short stories, Der nachtliche Skater, was published by Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag with twelve stories . In 2004 the story Gordon was published in Ziegel - Hamburger Jahrbuch für Literatur 9 by Dölling and Galitz Verlag . In 2006 her story Hindushirt was published in the paperback Summerlove, Erotic Stories at the Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag .

Last appeared on Amazon Kindle world novel .

Book publication

• The night skater, short stories, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3378006386

Web links

• Literature by and about Tanja Schwarz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tanja Schwarz at the Hamburg Authors Forum
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tanja Schwarz at perlentaucher.de
• Tanja Schwarz at interview-lounge , accessed on January 8, 2013.