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 play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just
Readin ...
.
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. The current mayor ...
. She won the
City of Stuttgart Literary Prize in 1982 and the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 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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