Kathrin Passig (born 4 June 1970) is a German writer.
Life and Works
Passig was born in 1970
in
Deggendorf
Deggendorf () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the Deggendorf district.
It is located on the left bank approximately in the middle between the Danube cities of Regensburg and Passau. The Danube forms the town's natural border towards ...
, a small town in
Lower Bavaria. She is editor and programmer of the blog "Riesenmaschine"
which received the Grimme Online Award 2006, awarded by the renowned Adolf-Grimme-Institut. The same year, her short story “Sie befinden sich hier” (“You are here”) got her the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
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.
One of her most successful books is "Lexikon des Unwissens – Worauf es bisher keine Antwort gibt" ("Encyclopedia of Ignorance – Everything we don't know so far") published by
Rowohlt in 2007.
She also works as a translator, among her translations are works by
William Leonard Marshall,
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
,
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, who served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company. In September 2018, he left Slate to co-found Pushkin Industries, an audio content company, ...
, and
Harlan Coben.
Works
* with Ira Strübel: ''Die Wahl der Qual'' (2000, Rowohlt)
* ''Sie befinden sich hier'' (2006, transl
''You are here''by Lucy Powell)
* with Holm Friebe: ''Das nächste große Ding'' (2007, Rowohlt)
* with Aleks Scholz: ''Lexikon des Unwissens'' (2007, Rowohlt)
* with Ira Strübel: ''Strübel & Passig. Gesammelte Kolumnen'' (2007, Verbrecher)
* with
Sascha Lobo: ''Dinge geregelt kriegen – ohne einen Funken Selbstdisziplin'' (2009, Rowohlt)
* with Aleks Scholz: ''Verirren. Eine Anleitung für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene'' (2010, Rowohlt)
* with Aleks Scholz and Kai Schreiber: ''Das neue Lexikon des Unwissens.'' (2011, Rowohlt)
* with
Sascha Lobo: ''Internet – Segen oder Fluch'' (2012, Rowohlt)
* with Johannes Jander: ''Weniger schlecht programmieren'' (2013, O'Reilly)
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
People from Deggendorf
Writers from Berlin
German women short story writers
German short story writers
German women writers
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winners