Anna Kaleri (born 1974 in

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) is a

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writer and screenwriter.

Biography

Anna Kaleri was born 1974 in the

Harz Mountains The Harz (), also called the Harz Mountains, is a Mittelgebirge, highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The nam ...

in the former

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. She studied from 1996 to 2002 at the

German Institute for Literature The German Institute for Literature (German: ''Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig'', DLL) is a part of Leipzig University and offers university education for writers. It was founded in 1955 under the name Johannes R. Becher-Institut, at that time ...

in Leipzig. After her

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from this school for writers, she studied

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. Currently, she lives in

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and works freelance since 2002. She writes

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and does journalistic works. Her prose début "This man exists" was published in 2003. Three years later, in 2006, her autobiographical novel "Highlife" which broached the time of

Die Wende The Peaceful Revolution () – also, in German called ' (, "the turning point") – was one of the peaceful revolutions of 1989 at the peak of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s. A process of sociopolitical change that led to, am ...

was published. After years of research, Kaleri wrote the novel ''Der Himmel ist ein Fluss'' (2012), a fictional approach to the life of her unknown grandmother who died at the end of

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Bibliography

*''Es gibt diesen Mann'',

Luchterhand Literaturverlag The Luchterhand Literaturverlag is a German publisher of contemporary literature based in Munich. It was founded in 1924, and was acquired by Random House in 2001. Luchterhand is considered one of the most prestigious publishers in Germany. Publi ...

2003 *''Hochleben'', Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2006 *''Der Himmel ist ein Fluss'', Graf Verlag 2012 (hardcover), List Verlag 2014 (softcover)

Leipziger Volkszeitung The ''Leipziger Volkszeitung'' or ''LVZ'' (German language, German for ''Leipzig People's Newspaper'') is a daily regional newspaper in Leipzig and western Saxony, Germany. First published on 1 October 1894, the LVZ was formerly an important pu ...

2012, October 26th
„Berauschend, tragisch, groß“ by Janina Fleischer

Awards

*1997 Weddinger Literaturpreis *2003 Wiepersdorf – Stipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung *2004 Grenzgängerstipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung *2004 Hörspielstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds *2007 Arbeitsstipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung

References

External links

* * 1974 births Living people German screenwriters German women screenwriters People from Mansfeld-Südharz Film people from Saxony-Anhalt {{Germany-writer-stub