Verena Auffermann

Verena Auffermann at the Leipzig Book Fair 2010

Verena Auffermann (* 1944 in Höxter ) is a freelance journalist , literary critic , lecturer and editor with a focus on literature and art .

Life

Verena Auffermann completed an apprenticeship in bookselling and then worked in a publishing house. After studying art history , Auffermann volunteered at the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung in Heidelberg , where she then worked as an editor in the literature department.

As a literary critic she wrote, among other things, from 1981 to 1996 as a freelancer for the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau . From 1984 to 2004 she was the culture correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She also worked for various features and cultural programs , including for Hessischer Rundfunk , Die Zeit , for the magazine Literaturen and for Deutschlandradio in Cologne and Berlin .

Auffermann took part in numerous radio and television discussions. She was a guest in the Literary Quartet and a regular participant in the SWR television program Literature in the foyer . From 1992 to 1996 she was a juror at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Since 1994 she has been a moderator at the annual Erlanger Poetenfest . From 1997 to 2002 she taught as a lecturer in the advanced training program for book and media practice at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Together with Gunhild Kübler , Ursula März and Elke Schmitter , Auffermann published the literary anthology passionate in 2009 . 99 women authors of world literature . In short literary essays, Auffermann portrays 27 women writers from world literature , classifies their work in terms of literary history and draws connecting lines between different national literature. Auffermann writes about Herta Müller , Tania Blixen , Else Lasker-Schüler , Ilse Aichinger and Marie-Luise Kaschnitz, among others .

Auffermann was a member of the jury of the German Book Prize 2005 and chaired the jury for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2010, as well as a juror for the International Literature Prize from the House of World Cultures , Berlin, 2017 and 2018.

She has lived in Berlin as a freelance critic since 2004 .

Jeff Wall ; The Storyteller with Robert Linsley. City of Frankfurt. Department for Culture and Leisure, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 978-3-882-70467-9 .
Carnation and Caruso ; About dogs. A romance with Iso Camartin. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-827-00236-5 .
The open dress ; From Giorgione to Tiepolo. Essays. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-827-00309-6 .
Passions. 99 authors of world literature together with Gunhild Kübler , Ursula März and Elke Schmitter , Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01048-8 .
Henry James . Life in Pictures. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07350-0 .
Flowers & Clouds , photographs, Atelier Jakob Mattner , Berlin 2017.
Look , Photo combinations. Curated by Anna Maigler and Jakob Mattner , Kunstverein Erlangen, in collaboration with the 39th Erlangen Poetenfestival, catalog: Kulturamt Erlangen.

Best German storytellers 2000 . Ed., Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-421-05386-2
Best German storytellers 2001 . Ed., Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-421-05554-5
Best German storytellers 2002 . Ed., Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-421-05624-5

Cathrin Kahlweit (Ed.) A man's dream. 30 confessions . Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-492-04568-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Auffermann, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publicist, critic, lecturer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Höxter