Friederike Roth (born 6 April 1948) is a German writer. She is especially active as a
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
.
Roth was born in
Sindelfingen
Sindelfingen (Swabian: ''Sendlfenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg in south Germany. It lies near Stuttgart at the headwaters of the Schwippe (a tributary of the river Würm), and is home to a Mercedes-Benz assembly plant.
History
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. She won the
City of Stuttgart Literary Prize in 1982 and the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
The Festival of German-Language Literature (german: Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur, links=no) is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of ...
in 1983.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Sindelfingen
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winners
German women dramatists and playwrights
20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
21st-century German dramatists and playwrights
21st-century German women writers
20th-century German women writers
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