Anna Kaleri (born 1974 in Wippra) is a German writer and screenwriter.
Biography edit
Anna Kaleri was born 1974 in the Harz Mountains in the former GDR. She studied from 1996 to 2002 at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. After her diploma from this school for writers, she studied Philosophy. Currently, she lives in Leipzig and works freelance since 2002. She writes fiction, screenplays and does journalistic works. Her prose début "This man exists" was published in 2003. Three years later, in 2006, her autobiographical novel "Highlife" which broached the time of Die Wende was published. After years of research, Kaleri wrote the novel Der Himmel ist ein Fluss (2012), a fictional approach to the life of her unknown grandmother hwo died at the end of World War II in Masuria.[1]
Bibliography edit
- Es gibt diesen Mann, Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2003[2]
- Hochleben, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2006
- Der Himmel ist ein Fluss, Graf Verlag 2012 (hardcover), List Verlag 2014 (softcover)[3]
Awards edit
- 1997 Weddinger Literaturpreis
- 2003 Wiepersdorf – Stipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung
- 2004 Grenzgängerstipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
- 2004 Hörspielstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
- 2007 Arbeitsstipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung
References edit
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 28 February 2013: "Masurisches Schicksal" by Andreas Platthaus
- ^ Deutschlandradio Kultur 26 January 2004: „Zartes und Krasses“ by Bettina Hesse
- ^ Leipziger Volkszeitung 2012, October 26th: „Berauschend, tragisch, groß“ by Janina Fleischer Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
External links edit
- Official website
- Literature by and about Anna Kaleri in the German National Library catalogue
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