Eva Menasse

Eva Manasseh ( born May 11, 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian journalist and writer. The half-sister of Robert Manasseh and Manasseh daughter of Hans is married to Michael Kumpfmüller.

Life

After studying German and History, she worked as an editor, inter alia, for the Vienna news magazine Profil, later for the arts section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her first book publication of The Holocaust appeared in court in 2000 in the settler -Verlag. The volume brings together their reports on the concluded in London in April 2000 trial of the Holocaust denier David Irving.

2005 Menasses first novel was published in Vienna Kiepenheuer & Malevich. In numerous anecdotes that some remember Friedrich Torberg Jolesch aunt, she tells the fictionalized story of her partly Catholic, partly Jewish relationship. The then pre- printed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung novel was overwhelmingly positive from the relevant German media, reviewed by the Austrian rather critical. In the fall of 2005, he was in Germany and Austria on the bestseller list. In April 2005, the book was ranked No. 1 on the ORF leaderboard. Eva Manasseh received for Vienna, which was published already in Dutch, English, Italian, Slovenian and Czech translation, the Rolf Heyne Debut Prize in 2005. Languages ​​in seven other editions are planned.

In the 2005 managed German federal election campaign, she joined initiated by Günter Grass election initiative in favor of the former red-green government.

Eva Manasseh lived in Berlin since 2003.

Works

  • The last fairy tale princess (along with Elizabeth and Robert Manasseh ), 1997
  • The most powerful man (along with Elizabeth and Robert Manasseh, Illustrator Rudi Klein ), 1998
  • The Holocaust in court. The process to David Irving, 2000
  • Vienna, 2005
  • Venial Deadly Sins, 2009
  • Vienna. Kiss on the hand modernity. Corso, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86260-018-2
  • Quasicrystals, Roman. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-46204-513-0

Eva Menasses works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Dutch and Hebrew translated.

Prizes and awards

  • 2005 Rolf Heyne debut price
  • 2013 Gerty Spies Literature Prize
  • 2013 Heinrich Böll Prize
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