Kathrin Passig

Kathrin Passignano ( born June 4, 1970 in Deggendorf ) is a German journalist and author. In 2006 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

Life

The Berlin Kathrin Passignano published together with Ira Strübel in 2000 The choice of torment, a nonfiction book about BDSM. She was one of 1999, the founders of the BDSM Berlin eV, whose board she served until 2009, and is a staff member of the project data shock. She works as a journalist for various newspapers; their co-authored with Holm Friebe columns for the Berliner Zeitung published as a book as well as their co-authored with Ira Strübel columns for the taz. Among other things, she transferred Chronicles Volume One, the memoirs of Bob Dylan, and the collected sayings of George W. Bush in German ( both together with Gerhard Henschel).

Other persons associated with the fanzine Luke & Trooke and the internet forum Polite paparazzi she founded in 2002 the Central Intelligence Agency in Berlin, whose managing director, she was until the summer of 2009. After several metamorphoses, the ZIA busy today with the development of culture formats.

Posts by Passignano appeared among others in Berlin newspaper, the daily newspaper, GEO, c't, Mercury, Spiegel Online and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Awards

The operated by ZIA Blog huge machine on which Passignano is both content and significantly involved in the development of software, 2006 Grimme Online Award was presented.

With her ​​literary debut, the story you are here, which describes the shape of the inner monologue of misery and confusion of a nonfreezing in the snow person, Passignano won the 2006 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the Kelag Audience Award at the Klagenfurt days of the German literature.

Works

• With Ira Strübel: The choice of torment Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 978-3-499-62408-7.
• With Holm Friebe: The next big thing. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-62293-9. Criminals Verlag, Berlin 2006
• With Aleks Scholz: Encyclopedia of Ignorance. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-569-2.
• With Ira Strübel: Strübel & Passignano. taz columns. Criminals Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-97-3.
• Sascha Lobo: things get settled - without a shred of self-discipline. Rowohlt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-87134-619-4.
• With Aleks Scholz: getting lost. A guide for beginners and advanced. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-640-8.
• With Aleks Scholz, Kai Schreiber: The New Encyclopedia of Ignorance. Rowohlt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-698-9.
• Sascha Lobo: Internet - Blessing or Curse, Rowohlt, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-87134-755-9.
• Standard situations the Technnologiekritik. Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-26048-7.

Translations

• William Marshall: Hong Kong crash. Translated from English by Kathrin Passignano. Red Book, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88022-445-5.
• Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume one. German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passignano. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09385- X.
• Jacob Weisberg: Freaks, Mr. President! True words of George W. Bush. German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passignano. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-61619- X.
• Harlan Coben: The Insider. From the American Gunnar Kwisinski and Kathrin Passignano. Goldmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-44534-9.

Audio productions

• You are here. Audio CD. Argon, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86610-199-6.