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Sibylle Lewitscharoff
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Lewitscharoff at the 2009 Leipzig Book Fair
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| Born | 16 April 1954 Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Died | 13 May 2023 (aged 69) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Free University of Berlin |
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff ( 16 April 1954 – 13 May 2023) was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, Pong, appeared in 1998, and was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by Consummatus (2006), Apostoloff}} (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for "[re-exploring] the boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness."
Early life
Lewitscharoff was born in Stuttgart; her father, Kristo Lewitscharoff, was a Bulgarian immigrant. Her mother, Marianne, was German.
Lewitscharoff studied theology and sociology at the Free University of Berlin.
Literary career
Lewitscharoff started her writing career by writing for radio, including radio plays. Her first book, 36 Gerechte, was published in 1994.
In 1998, she published her first novel Pong. The book earned Lewitscharoff the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
Her 2009 novel Apostoloff is partly autobiographical, and features two sisters who go to Bulgaria to bury their Bulgarian immigrant father. The book earned Lewitscharoff the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize.
In 2014, she published her first crime novel, Killmousky. The book received mostly mixed reviews.
Lewitscharoff received praise for her playful mastery of language. In 2011, she was described in Die Welt as "the most dazzling stylist of contemporary German literature."
Literature expert Ulrike Veder puts Lewitscharoff in the magical realism tradition and has further expressed on Lewitscharoff's writing that "It's the constellation of profound knowledge and a writing style that is funny and headstrong and that not only plays with language but actually enriches the language."
Personal life
Lewitscharoff was married from 1990 to the artist Friedrich Meckseper. He provided illustrations to a 2013 edition of Pong. They lived in Berlin where he died in 2019. Her religious faith was shaped by her maternal grandmother, who lived with the family when she was a child. Although a Lutheran, she was influenced by the Catholic tradition on many moral issues.
Lewitscharoff was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2010. She died in Berlin on 13 May 2023, at age 69.
Awards
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (1998)
- Member of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (2007)
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (2009)
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2009)
- Ricarda-Huch-Preis (2011)
- Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis (2011)
- Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize (2011)
- Georg Büchner Prize (2013)
- Brothers Grimm guest professor at University of Kassel (2013)
Novels
- 36 Gerechte. Steinrötter, Münster 1994, ISBN: 3-927024-00-7.
- Pong. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN: 3-8270-0285-0.
- Der höfliche Harald. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN: 3-8270-0349-0.
- Montgomery. DVA, Stuttgart / München 2003, ISBN: 978-3-421-05680-1.
- Consummatus. DVA, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN: 3-421-05596-3.
- Apostoloff. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN: 3-518-42061-5.
- Blumenberg. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN: 978-3-518-42244-1; als TB: Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch 4399, Berlin 2013, ISBN: 978-3-518-46399-4.
- With Friedrich Meckseper: Pong redivivus. Insel, Berlin 2013, ISBN: 978-3-458-19383-8.
- Killmousky. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN: 978-3-518-42390-5.
See also
In Spanish: Sibylle Lewitscharoff para niños
