Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange -Müller ( born February 13, 1951 in Berlin -Lichtenberg ) is a German writer.
Life and work
Katja Lange -Müller is the daughter of Inge Lange, who was deputy of the GDR People's Chamber, later the Central Committee of the SED belonged and member of the Political Bureau was.
After they had been expelled at 16 for " unsozialistischen behavior " of the school, she was apprenticed as a typesetter and then worked as a picture editor at the Berliner Zeitung. After a year as a prop master at DDR television, she was for several years assistant nurse on closed psychiatric wards of the Charité Berlin and the hospital for neurology and psychiatry Berlin Heart Mountain.
From 1979 she studied at the Literary Institute " Johannes R. Becher " in Leipzig. Her husband Wolfgang Müller had no fault of their own submitted application documents for them. 1982 was followed by a one-year study in Mongolia and working in the " carpet factory Wilhelm Pieck " in Ulan Bator. After returning to East Germany in 1983 she was a lecturer in the Old Berlin Verlag. In 1984 she traveled out to West Berlin. She lives in Berlin today.
Katja Lange - Müller's work consists mainly of narratives in which they often processed experiences from her eventful life. Although this is often stories about social outsiders and misfits who comic and grotesque side is emphasized by their fate again and again. Even in dealing with the division of Germany and the states in the GDR, makes Lange- Müller's pronounced satirical vein noticeable.
Katja Lange -Müller is since 2000 member of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt, Germany, since 2002 the Academy of Arts (Berlin) and a founding member of the Lübeck " Group 05 ".
She was married to Wolfgang Müller, the younger brother of the writer Heiner Müller.
Works
- Wehleid - as in life, Frankfurt am Main 1986
- Kasper Mauser - cowardice in front of friend, Cologne 1988
- Premature animal love, Cologne 1995
- The latest: Notes from Udo Posbichs printing, novel, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-462-02929-0
- Biotope states, Berlin 2001
- Prussia's last pioneers, Rheinberg 2001
- Chinese whispers, Schwetzingen 2001 ( together with Hans Scheib )
- The sweet and sour beetle beetles, Berlin 2002 (along with Ingrid Jörg )
- What does the cat from Sunday? , Berlin 2002 (together with Jonas Maron and Monika Maron )
- The ducks, the women and the truth, Cologne 2003
- The Nicaraguan dog, Berlin 2003
- Evil sheep, novel, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03914-6
- Station Berlin, Munich 1997
- From fish spat, Cologne 2002