Verena Lueken

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Verena Lueken at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2015

Verena Lueken (born May 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist , film critic and writer .

Life

Lueken studied dance, sociology, German and film studies in Frankfurt, Philadelphia and New York. Since 1989 she has been working for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a film and literary critic, first as a freelancer and since 1992 as an editor. From 1995 to 2003 she reported for the FAZ as a cultural correspondent from New York. Since 2003 she has been working in the Frankfurt editorial office again. After several non-fiction books, Lueken published her first autobiographical novel in 2015 with Kiepenheuer & Witsch , which followed in 2018 with “Elswo”, also with Kiepenheuer and Witsch.

In 2016 Lueken took part in the BBC's vote for the 100 most important films of the 21st century and chose In the Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar-Wai as first place.

Works

  • 1995: cinema stories (ed.)
  • 2003: New York. Report from an old city
  • 2005, 2010, 2018: Instructions for Use for New York
  • 2015: Everything Counts (novel)
  • 2018: Elsewhere (novel)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Verena Lueken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Verena Lueken: That is life. Laudation for Richard Ford In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (via faz-net from September 30, 2018), accessed on October 8, 2019 (winning text of the Michael Althen Prize 2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Verena Lueken on the pages of the FAZ editorial team
  2. ↑ With a preliterary view of the world. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jan C. Behmann: Interview - "You don't expect flirtatiousness now?" In: The Friday Community Blog. October 8, 2018, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Verena Lueken "Elsewhere" - Unraveling a missed life. Retrieved on August 27, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ The 21st Century's 100 greatest films: Who voted? at bbc.com, August 23, 2016 (accessed August 23, 2016).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Roman by Verena Lueken: In the kingdom of the sick . In: Spiegel online , September 2, 2015, accessed October 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Anja Beisiegel: Survival with sentences. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 21, 2015, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Verena Lueken excellent. In: FAZ Online. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, October 7, 2019, accessed on October 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lueken, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main