Verena Güntner
Verena Güntner (* 1978 in Ulm ) is a German actress and writer .
Life
After training as an actor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg from 1999 to 2003, Güntner was a member of the ensemble at the Bremen Theater until 2007 . Since then she has played at different theaters , especially at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden, and has appeared in film and television roles. After participating in the final of the 20th Open Mike of the Berlin Literature Workshop and third place in the 2013 MDR Literature Prize , she won the Kelag Prize in the 2013 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize competition. The juror Paul Jandl became aware of her during a writing workshop in Edenkoben in 2013 and invited her to the Bachmann competition.
In 2014 she published her first novel Bring It . "There is great love and tenderness in the text," said Jan Küveler in the newspaper Die Welt . Güntner manages to create the impression of an immediate reality through an extreme artificial language that borders on poetry. 2015. It bring successfully premiered at the Schauspielhaus. In 2016 Verena Güntner received a working grant from the Berlin Senate, and in 2019 a grant from the Thuringia Cultural Foundation. Her second novel Power was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2020 .
Güntner lives in Berlin-Schöneberg .
Works
- Bring it. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-462-04692-2
- Power. Novel. DuMont , Cologne 2020. ISBN 978-3-8321-8369-1
Radio plays
- 2006: Friedrich Christian Delius : Die Minute mit Paul McCartney - Director: Christiane Ohaus (radio play - RB / WDR )
Web links
- Homepage of the author on the website of her publisher
- Verena Güntner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Verena Güntner at Schauspielervideos.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Verena Güntner, BERLIN (D). ORF, accessed on August 17, 2014 .
- ^ A b Jan Küveler: Rendezvous, please, in high-rise estates. In: Welt Online . September 21, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Working grants for writers awarded in 2016. State Chancellery Berlin, April 20, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Scholarships 2019. Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, archived from the original on March 7, 2019 ; accessed on October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Verena Güntner | Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair -. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Güntner, Verena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |