Thea Dorn

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Thea Dorn (2012)

Thea Dorn (born July 23, 1970 in Offenbach am Main , actually Christiane Scherer ) is a German writer , literary critic and television presenter . She also worked briefly as a dramaturge .

Live and act

Thea Dorn grew up in Frankfurt am Main . Her parents were economists ; she has a brother. After graduating from the Lessing-Gymnasium , she began singing training ; later she studied philosophy and theater studies in Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin . At the Free University of Berlin , she passed the master's examination in philosophy with a thesis on self-deception . During this time she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . She then worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin. She later became a dramaturge and author at the Hanover Theater . She chose her stage name in reference to the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno .

The sculptural examination of scenes of violence is characteristic of her thrillers. With Die Brut (2004), Dorn broke away from the crime genre and concentrated on critically analyzing milieu characterizations. In February 2008, the girl murderer appeared , which describes the unusual relationship between a victim and the cold-blooded perpetrator.

In 2000, Dorn wrote the play Marleni , the staging of an encounter between Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl . The drama premiered on January 15, 2000 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg . She wrote the scripts for the episodes The Black Troll (2003) and Family Constellation (2007, broadcast in 2009) of the ARD series Tatort .

Her first non-fiction book, Die neue F-Klasse , was published in September 2006 . It contains two essays and eleven conversations with women from Charlotte Roche to Silvana Koch-Mehrin .

From 2003 to 2004 she presented the program Schümer and Dorn together with Dirk Schümer . The book talk in the SWR . Since October 2004 she has been leading the show literature in the foyer , since November 2008 in alternation with Felicitas von Lovenberg . From January 2008 to December 2009, Dorn presented the Paris-Berlin talkshow on the German-French TV channel ARTE, alternating with the French journalist Isabelle Giordano . Under the motto Out into the unknown! Thea Dorn curated the forum: authors at the Munich Literature Festival 2012.

Sibylle Berg , Christine Westermann , Volker Weidermann and Thea Dorn (from left to right) during the program Das Literäre Quartett at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2019)

Since March 2017 Dorn permanent member in the ZDF telecast The Literary Quartet . After Volker Weidermann and Christine Westermann left , she took over the moderation of the show in March 2020. From 2017 to 2019, Dorn was also a juror at the Bavarian Book Prize .

Thea Dorn describes herself as an agnostic and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . She lives in Berlin.

Awards

Thea Dorn at the Grimme Prize (2015)

Works

Books

Plays

  • Franziska after Frank Wedekind . Drama. Premiere: Schauspielhaus Hannover, 2000
  • Marleni. Prussian divas blond as steel . Drama. Premiere: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 2000
  • Nike . Play about a serial killer. Premiere: Schauspielhaus Hannover, 2001, Theater K Aachen January 2019
  • Bomb song . Monodrama about the inner workings of a suicide bomber. WP: Theaterhaus Stuttgart 2002; Audio CD 2002, ISBN 3-88030-040-2

Movies

  • Au coeur de la nuit. Through the night with Fatih Akın , film director & Thea Dorn, writer and playwright . Film by Peter Scholl and Hanna Leissner. 58 min. Film report, Germany 2003 (Mainz, ZDF).
  • Crime scene . The black troll . TV play with Sabine Postel and Oliver Mommsen. Book: Thea Dorn. Director: Vanessa Jopp. Germany 2003 (ARD, broadcast on May 25, 2003).
  • Crime scene . Family constellation . TV play with Sabine Postel, Oliver Mommsen and Erol Sander. Book: Thea Dorn and Seyran Ateş . Director: Mark Schlichter. Germany 2009 (ARD, broadcast on February 8, 2009).
  • Loyal to men (TV movie)

literature

Web links

Commons : Thea Dorn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Articles, interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorn, Thea . In: Brockhaus - Encyclopedia in 30 volumes. 21st edition. Retrieved from the Munzinger archive. 4th March 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Dorn, Thea im Munzinger-Archiv , accessed on September 23, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible).
  3. ↑ 90 years, 90 heads. In: A series of portraits for the 90th anniversary of the German National Academic Foundation. December 1, 2018, accessed April 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Peter Münder: Murder on Campus. Kesse's debut as a qualified philosopher. In: SPIEGEL SPECIAL 10/1995. October 1, 1995, accessed on July 12, 2011 : "As a die-hard Adornite, I had little choice but to thank Theo for his enlightening flashes of inspiration."
  5. ↑ Susanne Meierhenrich: “Out into the unknown!” Thea Dorn is the new curator of forum: autoren at the Munich Literature Festival 2012. In: Munich Literature Festival & forum: autoren. December 6, 2012, archived from the original on July 15, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2011 .
  6. ↑ "The Literary Quartet" on ZDF from March with Thea Dorn - the writer and publicist becomes part of the regular cast. In: presseportal.de. February 2, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017 .
  7. ^ "Literary Quartet": Thea Dorn sole hostess. In: morgenpost.de . dpa , February 14, 2020, accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Thea Dorn, Dr. Svenja Flaßpöhler and Knut Cordsen new jurors for the Bavarian Book Prize , buchmarkt.de, April 5, 2017, accessed on April 5, 2017
  9. ↑ Dorn, Thea . In: Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv, 27/2004 of July 3, 2004, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 05/2011, accessed on July 12, 2011.
  10. ↑ literaturpreisgewinner.de
personal data
SURNAME Dorn, Thea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherer, Christiane (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main