Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck ( born March 12, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German film director and writer.
Life
Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents, the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner are paternal.
Jenny Erpenbeck attended an Advanced High School in East Berlin, where she completed her secondary schooling in 1985. She then completed a two year apprenticeship as a bookbinder. She then worked at various theaters as props and wardrobe mistress.
From 1988 to 1990 she studied theater arts at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1990 she moved on to study musical theater direction ( inter alia with Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny ) the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin. After the successful completion of this study in 1994 ( with a production of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle in the parish church and at Tacheles Berlin), she worked for some time, first as an assistant director at the Graz Opera House from 1997, she took over his own productions at this house (eg. expectation of Arnold Schoenberg, Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Bartók and the world premiere of her own play cats have nine lives ).
As a freelance director, she directed from 1998 on various houses in Germany and Austria, including Monteverdi's L' Orfeo in Aachen, Handel's Acis and Galatea at the Staatsoper Berlin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Zaide in Nuremberg / Erlangen.
Jenny Erpenbeck struck in the 1990s, in addition to their directing the writing career a. She is the author of narrative prose and plays. 1999 their debut story of the old child, 2001, the short story collection Tand, 2004, the amendment dictionary and in February 2008 the Roman visitation.
As of March 2007 took over Jenny Erpenbeck for one year the bi-weekly column by Nicole Krauss in the FAZ. In April 2013 Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the Joseph Breitbach Prize for her work in which, according to Jury combines the artistic integrity with high form of art, beauty and evocative language that makes us at every moment to compassionate and compassionate.
Since 2002, Jenny Erpenbeck is the mother of a son, with whom she lives in Berlin.
Prices and appreciations
- 2001: Jury Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt
- 2001: several residencies ( Single Rowohlt House in New York, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf )
- 2004: GEDOK Literature Prize
- 2006: winner of the scholarship island Schreiber on Sylt
- 2008: Solothurn Literature Price
- 2008: Heimito of Doderer Literature Prize
- 2009: Price LiteraTour North
- 2010: Literature Prize of the Steel Foundation Eisenhüttenstadt
- 2013: Schubart Literature Prize
- 2013: Evangelical Book Award for All Day Evening
- 2013: Joseph- Breitbach Prize
- 2013: Thomas Valentine Prize for Literature
- 2014: Hans Fallada Prize
Works
- Story of the old child. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0784-9.
- Cats have nine lives. Play. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-8218-0785-7.
- Trinkets. Narratives. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8218-0696-6.
- Dictionary. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-0742-3.
- Visitation. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-5773-2.
- Things disappear. Galiani, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86971-004-4.
- All day evening. Knaus Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8135-0369-2.
- Cats have nine lives. UA: January 30, 2000 United Stages Graz; Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der authors
- Physical exercises for a sinner. UA: 27 March 2003 Deutsches Theater Berlin; Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der authors
Jenny Erpenbeck's works have been translated into Danish, inter alia, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch, Swedish, Slovenian, Spanish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Arabic, Italian and Estonian.