Angelika Klüssendorf (born 1958) is a German writer. She was born in

Ahrensburg Ahrensburg () is a town in the district of Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located northeast of Hamburg and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Its population is around 31,000. ''Schloss Ahrensburg'', the town's symbol, is ...

and raised in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

, both in the

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(former East Germany). In 1985, she fled to West Germany where she has lived ever since. She has written several books, including plays, novels and short stories. She won the

Roswitha Prize The Roswitha Prize (german: Roswitha-Preis) is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women. The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim. In 1998 it received its moder ...

in 2004. Klüssendorf lives in

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Works

* Sehnsüchte rzählung Hanser, München / Wien 1990, . * Anfall von Glück rzählungen Hanser, München / Wien 1994, . * Frag mich nicht, schieß mich tot! Eine Farce, rstesTheaterstück, Manuscript beim Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main 1995, abgedruckt in: Theater der Zeit Nr. 2 /1996, Berlin 1996 ISSN 0040-5418. * Alle leben so

oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of t ...

Frankfurt am Main 2001, . * Aus allen Himmeln rzählungen Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, . * Amateure rzählungen Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, . * Das Mädchen

Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2011, (als Hörbuch: Das Mädchen, ungekürzte Lesung von Julia Nachtmann, Regie Margrit Osterwold, 4 CDs (263 Min.), Hörbuch, Hamburg 2011, ).

References

1958 births 20th-century German novelists 21st-century German novelists Living people Writers from Leipzig Writers from Berlin {{Germany-writer-stub