Angelika Overath

Angelika Overath ( born July 17, 1957 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer and journalist.

Life and work

Overath studied in Tübingen, German, History, Italian Studies and Cultural Science and doctorate in 1986 with a thesis on the blue in modern poetry. She then worked for three years as a writer in Greece in 1991 and returned back to Germany. Meanwhile Overath lives in Sent ( Lower Engadine, Switzerland ).

While studying Overath wrote for the Swabian day sheet and for the magazine TransAtlantik. Later Overath wrote regular reports and essays for the NZZ, NZZ am Sonntag, GEO, Merian, ZEIT, you, The Magazine, Frankfurter Rundschau for mare and for the series of the Vontobel Foundation. Since 1998, her works were published mainly prose; in addition she has published several anthologies. She is a lecturer at the Swiss School of Journalism MAZ.

Angelika Overath is married to the literary scholar Manfred Koch and has three children.

Prizes and awards

Works

  • The other blue. Poetics of one color in a modern poem. Metzler, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-476-00616-6.
  • The Blue Book. Ways of reading a color. (Ed. with Angelika Lochmann ). Greno, Nördlingen, 1988, ISBN 3-89190-432-0.
  • "From the reality of life " - Hir the sheet. News from the daily grind with Friedrich Hölderlin, informed by Lotte room. Compiled by Angelika Overath and Gregory Wittkop. Friedensau Press, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-932109-07-2.
  • Traders of the lost colors. True stories. Dragonfly, Lengwil 1998, ISBN 3-909081-11-8.
  • From Seconds Happiness burning scraps of paper. True stories. Dragonfly, Lengwil 2000, ISBN 3-909081-75-4.
  • Bad marriages. A wedding book, compiled from many sources. (Ed. with Manfred Koch). Eichborn ( The other library 189), Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-8218-4710-7.
  • The art of simplicity. (Ed. with Manfred Koch). Herder, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-451-27825-1.
  • Sparrows wisdom. Herder, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-451-27672-0. ( Dutch by Annette van Schoonhoven: Must en praat Palet Gifts, Amsterdam 2003.. )
  • Sleepless. The book of the bright nights. A literary Notturno for sleep -seekers and guards. (Ed. with Manfred Koch). Dragonfly, Lengwil 2002, ISBN 3-909081-47-9.
  • Changeling of poetry. The poet Christine Lavant outrageous. Kreicher, Warmbronn 2002, ISBN 3-932843-38- X.
  • Tolerance. Three readings of Lessing's fairy tales from the ring in 2003. ( By Navid Kermani and Robert Schindel ). Wallenstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-688-1.
  • Half the bread of birds. Portraits and passages. Wallenstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-730-6.
  • Generations images. Investigations of the family fortune. Dragonfly, Lengwil 2005, ISBN 3-905707-00-4. first presented as generations. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich, 2005.
  • As an audio book ( read by Manfred Koch): 4 audio CDs. Radioropa / Technisat, down 2008, ISBN 978-3-8368-0170-6.
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