Judith Schalansky

Judith Schalansky (born 20 September 1980 in Greifswald ) is a German writer, book designer and editor.

Life and work

Judith Schalansky studied art history at the Free University of Berlin and Communication Design at the FH Potsdam. After her graduation in 2007, she taught until 2009 Typographic Basics at the Fachhochschule Potsdam.

Schalansky began her journalistic work in 2006 with the typographic compendium Fraktur mon Amour before it two years later her literary debut Blue does not suit you submitted. Meanwhile, she is more active in the literary field, designed their books who contribute their regular design awards, but still itself Thus, both their Atlas of Remote Islands as well as her two years later published Bildungsroman The neck of the giraffe with the 1st prize the Foundation considered book art. Saddle Lansky's books have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Since the spring of 2013, it publishes the book series produced nature Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Judith Schalansky lives with her ​​partner in Berlin.

Works

  • Fraktur mon Amour. Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-87439-696-7. second, revised and expanded edition: Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-87439-748-3.
  • Paperback edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46284-3.
  • Paperback edition: Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands. Fifty islands where I never was and never will be. Fischer, Frankfurt, 2011. ISBN 978-359619-012-6
  • Paperback edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-51846-388-8.

Audiobooks

  • The neck of the giraffe. Read by Dagmar Manzel, Audio Publishing (DAV ), Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86231-129-3 ( reading, 4 CDs, 297 min)

Theater adaptations

  • Acting Frankfurt premiere on December 8, 2012 Director: Florian Fiedler.
  • Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, 2013 Director: Armin Petras.
  • Theatre at the Old Market, Bielefeld, 2013, directed by Ronny Jakubaschk

Editorship of " nature studies "

  • № 1: Cord Riechelmann: crows. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-048-4.
  • № 2: John Muir: The mountains of California. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-050-7.
  • № 3: Jürgen Goldstein: The discovery of nature. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-992-0.
  • № 4: Korbinian Aigner: apples and pears. The Complete Works. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-051-4.
  • № 5: Jutta person: donkey. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-078-1.
  • № 6: Sylvain Tesson: Short report of the immensity of the world. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-079-8.
  • № 7: Hugh Raffles: Insektopädie. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-080-4.
  • № 8: Zdenek Burian: The Lost Worlds of Zdeněk Burian. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-081-1.
  • № 9: Holger Teschke: Herring. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-392-8.
  • № 10: John Alec Baker: The Peregrine Falcon. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-393-5.
  • № 11: Isabel wreath: Talking Flowers: An Alphabet of Plants language. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-935-7.
  • № 12: Fried Ferdinand Runge: The formative tendency of fabrics. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-936-4.

Awards

  • 2007: Silver medal from the Art Directors Club Germany for Fraktur mon Amour
  • 2007: Award for Typographic Excellence Type Directors Club for Fraktur mon Amour
  • 2009: Fellow of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles
  • 2009: 1st Prize of Book Art Foundation: " Most Beautiful German Book of the Year " for Atlas of Remote Islands
  • 2010: Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany in Silver in the category communication design
  • 2010: Artist residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
  • 2011: The asteroid ( 95247 ) Schalansky was named after her on 15 June 2011.
  • 2012: Prize of the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the city of Bad Homburg
  • 2012: Spycher Literature Price Leuk with John Burnside
  • 2012: Comburg literature scholarship, Schwäbisch Hall
  • 2012: 1st Prize of Book Art Foundation: " Most Beautiful German Book of the Year " for the neck of the giraffe
  • 2013: Prize of the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
  • 2013: Maerkisches Scholarship for Literature
  • 2014: Mainz city clerk
  • 2014: Prize of Literature Houses
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