Sibylle Knauss

Sibylle Knauss (born July 5, 1944 Unna, Germany) is a German writer and academic.

Biography

Knauss studied German, English and Theology in Munich and Heidelberg. Starting in 1970, she worked in a grammar school. Since 1981, Knauss has been working as a freelance writer. For over 20 years she lived and worked in St. Ingbert. Knauss is a professor at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg) in the field of "screenplay." She is a member of the PEN Center in Germany. Knauss lives in Remseck near Stuttgart.

Awards and honors

Knauss' first work ''Oh Elise or love is a solitary business'' was awarded the 1982 prize of the New Literary Society in Hamburg. Her bestseller ''Evas Cousine'' was listed in the ''New York Times'' "Books of the Year" in 2002.

In July 2006, Knauss was awarded the "Saarland Art Prize (Literature)." The jury stated: "The clear composition of her novels is especially worth mentioning. Her great themes have been thoroughly researched; Sibylle Knauss must be attested to an excellent literary treatment of her subjects. For her novels, she chooses mainly historical figures of women whose ways of life she describes in a particular way. Sibylle Knauss' language is free of ideological ballast, her novels read with pleasure."

Saarland Minister of Culture, Jürgen Schreier, described Knauss as "an outstanding literary ambassador of our country."

Knauss was listed in the list of 50 major Saarlanders by the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunale Frauenbeauftrag oogle translation: National Workers' Union Communal Women's Commissionin Saarland.

Reviews

Edelgard Abenstein, ''Deutschlandradio Kultur'': "Knauss' talent is always reflected in the successful combination of facts and fiction, such as in "Eden," where she presents herself as a master of the biographical novel, whose greatest strengths lie in the life of the adventurer Mary Leakey, where style, wit, and color sparkle."

Selected publications

*''Oh Elise, or, Loves is a lonely business.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1981, ( Elise Lensing )
*''The master's room.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe , Hamburg 1983
*''Erlkönig's daughters.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1985
*''Charlotte Corday.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1988
*''Uninvited guests.'' Novel. Droemer Knaur , Munich 1991
*''School of narrative - a guide.'' Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1995 ;
*''Over Neuaufl.: School of narrative.'' A guide for novels and screenplay authors. Authors House, Berlin 2006
*''The night with Paul.'' Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996
*''The missionary.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 1997
*''Eva's cousin.'' Novel. Claassen, Munich 2000
*''Feet in the fire.'' Novel. Claassen, Hamburg 2003
*''The Marquise de Sade.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 2006,
*''Eden.'' Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2009
*''Stranger Novel.'' Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012
*''The love memory.'' Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer , Tübingen, Germany 2015

Further information

*Helga Abret: ''In the twilight of distance and proximity. On Sibylle Knauss' novel "Charlotte Corday" (1988).'' In: Helga Abret, Ilse Nagelschmidt (Hrsg.): ''Between distance and proximity . A generation of authors in the 80s.'' (= ''Convergences'' 6). Peter Lang, Bern et al., 1998, , pp. 211-234.
*Katharina Schnell: ''On Subjectivity in the Reception and Interpretation of Works by the example of the author Sibylle Knauss.'' Proseminar work. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
*Simplice Agossavi: ''External hermeneutics in contemporary German literature with examples by Uwe Timm, Gerhard Polt, Urs Widmer, Sibylle Knauss, Wolfgang Lange and Hans Christoph Buch'' (= Saarbrücker ''Contributions to Literary Sciences'', volume 77). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2003, (Dissertation University of the Saarland 2002, Speaker: Gerhard Sauder, 186 pages).CV Simplice Agossavi
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References

External links

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Official website with blog

Press release Hoffmann & Campe

Book review "Evas Cousine"

Sibylle Knauss
at WorldCat

''Eva's Cousin'' at Penguin Random House

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1944 births
German women writers
People from Unna
Living people