Karla Schneider (born 14 November 1938 in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
) is a German writer.
Life
After
Abitur, Karla Schneider worked in a factory in the
GDR for a year, after which she trained as a
bookseller
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. She moved to
Federal Republic of Germany
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in 1979 and lives as a
freelance author in
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and tow ...
. She writes books of
children's and youth literature. She also writes books for adults. In 1989 she received the
Astrid Lindgren Prize
The Astrid Lindgren-priset, or Astrid Lindgren Prize in English, is a Swedish literary award for children's literature named after the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The prize was instituted by the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren in 1967 to ...
from the
Oetinger-Verlag, in 1993 2nd prize in the competition for the
Bettina von Arnim Prize and on 16 June 2008 she was awarded the
Astrid Lindgren Prize
The Astrid Lindgren-priset, or Astrid Lindgren Prize in English, is a Swedish literary award for children's literature named after the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The prize was instituted by the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren in 1967 to ...
. On 16 June 2008, Schneider was awarded the
Alex-Wedding-Prize, whose jury included
Thomas Rosenlöcher,
Klaus Kordon and
Gundel Mattenklott.
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Works
* ''Die Brauerei auf dem Kissen.'' Berlin 1974 (under the name „Karla Sander“).
* ''Der Mensch und sein Drachen.'' Düsseldorf u. a. 1988.
* ''Spätprogramm.'' Lohr 1988.
* ''Die Suche nach der Lerche.'' Erlangen 1989.
* ''Fünfeinhalb Tage zur Erdbeerzeit.'' Hamburg 1989.
* ''Vielleicht sind Schränke gar nicht so.'' Lahr 1989.
* ''Der Knabenkrautgarten.'' Zürich 1989.
* ''Ritter Suppengrün und das süße Geheimnis.'' Würzburg 1991.
* ''Lauter Windeier.'' Weinheim 1992.
* ''Die abenteuerliche Geschichte der Filomena Findeisen.'' Weinheim u. a. 1992.
* ''Kor, der Engel.'' Zürich 1992.
* ''Wenn man Märri Schimmel heißt.'' Weinheim 1993.
* ''Almuth und Helene.'' Zürich 1993.
* ''Die Reise in den Norden.'' Weinheim 1995.
* ''Merits Geburtstag.'' Berlin 1996.
* ''Matti Sörensen und Petja Wuppdich.'' München 1996.
* ''Zwischen Kloppe und Glück oder Wer sammelt hat mehr vom Leben.'' Weinheim 1997, ISBN 3-407-78842-8.
* ''Der Zaun.'' Hamburg 2000.
* ''Rückkehr nach Podgoritza.'' Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89561-082-8.
* ''Der klügste Hase unter der Sonne'', Weinheim 2003, ISBN 3-407-79846-6.
* ''Glückskind.'' München 2003, ISBN 3-446-20334-6.
* ''Marcolini oder wie man Günstling wird.'' München 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20905-3.
* ''Großvater und ich.'' München 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-62366-7.
* ''Wenn ich das 7. Geißlein wär'.'' Köln 2009, ISBN 978-3-414-82183-6.
* ''Holly Vogeltritt. Ein Märchen.'' Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-7941-5217-9.
* ''Der Sommer, als ich Filmstar war.'' München 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-62447-3.
* ''Die Geschwister Apraksin. Das Abenteuer einer unfreiwilligen Reise.'' München 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-62490-9.
* ''Tova und die Sache mit der Liebe''. Hanser, München 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24315-6.
External links
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* Ulrich H. Baselau:
Karla Schneider'. (PDF; 242 KB) In: ajum.de.
Karla Schneider dtv
References
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1938 births
Living people
20th-century German writers
20th-century German women writers
21st-century German writers
21st-century German women writers