Anna Breitenbach (born 1952) is a German author and

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

ist. She was born in Hessen. She studied German and political science in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

and Tübingen and attended the

Deutsche Journalistenschule The Deutsche Journalistenschule e.V. (), the German School of Journalism, is a journalism school in Germany. At the time of its establishment, it was the country's first German journalism school. Today, Deutsche Journalistenschule is considered o ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

. She worked as a radio reporter for Süddeutscher Rundfunk and published her poetry and prose in various literary journals. In 2000, she published her first novel ''Fremde Leute''; in 2003, she published her first book of poetry ''Feuer.Land''. In 2012, she produced the film ''Guerrilla Gardening'' with Werner Reichelt. Breitenbach has been living and working in Esslingen and Elmo in Italy. In 2001, she was awarded the

Thaddäus-Troll-Preis Thaddäus-Troll-Preis is a literary prize awarded by the ''Förderkreis deutscher Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg'', an organization that supports and sponsors writers in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The prize is awarded annually ...

for her novel ''Fremde Leute''. In 2005, she was one of the winners in the poetry competition sponsored by

C.H. Beck Verlag C. H. BECK oHG, doing business as Publishers C. H. Beck (german: Verlag C. H. Beck), is a German publisher with its headquarters in Munich and a branch office in Frankfurt. The company was established in 1763. Historically, its headquarte ...

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