Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel (*April 12, 1974) is a German writer, translator, and literary critic. She lives in Potsdam.
Life
Antje Strubel was born in Potsdam and grew up in Ludwigsfelde, East Germany. After leaving school, Antje Strubel first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied literature, psychology and American studies in Potsdam and New York. In New York she also worked as a lighting assistant in a theater. Born Antje Strubel, she took the name Rávic to designate her writing identity.
Critical reception
Strubel is part of a generation of writers who were born in East Germany but started publishing after the fall of the Wall. Much of her fiction deals with identity and transformation in contemporary Europe. In 2001, she published her first two novels, Offene Blende and Unter Schnee (translated as Snowed Under). That year she also received the Ernst Willner Prize in Klagenfurt. Like many of her texts, both of these novels focus on East and West German women traveling abroad and reinventing themselves after the fall of the Wall.
In 2003, she won the Roswitha Prize and the German Critics Prize. Her novel Tupolew 134 met with enthusiastic reviews, and in 2005 won the new Marburger Literature Prize and the Bremen Literature Prize. Her 2007 novel Kältere Schichten der Luft won the Hermann Hesse Prize and the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2007. It was also shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize. In 2012 Sturz der Tage in die Nacht was nominated for the German Book Prize.
Strubel has translated books by American novelist Joan Didion into German. Strubel has also written numerous short stories and published articles, commentaries, and critical reviews in newspapers and literary journals.
Works
- Offene Blende (Open Shutter). Novel. Munich, 2001. ISBN 3-423-24251-5.
- Unter Schnee (Snowed Under). Episode novel. Munich, 2001. ISBN 3-423-24277-9.
- Fremd Gehen (Going Strange). Hamburg: Marebuch, 2002. ISBN 3-936384-01-0.
- Tupolew 134. Novel. Munich: CH Beck, 2004. ISBN 3-406-52183-5.
- Kältere Schichten der Luft (Colder layers of air). Novel. Frankfurt a. M.: S. Fischer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-10-075121-8.
- Vom Dorf (From the village). Adventure stories. Munich, 2007. ISBN 978-3-423-24622-4.
- Gebrauchsanweisung für Schweden (Instruction Manual for Sweden). München: Piper, 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-27556-9 . Munich: Piper, 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-27556-9.
- Gebrauchsanweisung für Potsdam und Brandenburg (Instruction Manual for Potsdam and Brandenburg). München: Piper, 2012. ISBN 978-3492276047.
- Sturz der Tage in die Nacht (When Days Plunge into Night). Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer, 2012. ISBN 978-3100751362.
As editor
- Zeitzonen. Literatur in Deutschland 2004 (Time zones. Literature in Germany 2004). Vienna: Edition Selene, 2004. ISBN 3-85266-233-8.
- Was dringend getan werden muss (What urgently needs to be done). Special issue of Neue Rundschau 2013/2. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 2013. ISBN 978-3108090937.
External links
References
- Literary critic Elmar Krekeler in Die Welt, 17.03.2007
- Norman, Beret. "Antje Rávic Strubel's Ambiguities of Identity as Social Disruption." Women in German Yearbook 28 (2012). 65-80.
- Finch, Helen. "Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Novels of Antje Rávic Strubel." Women in German Yearbook 28 (2012). 81-97.
- Norman, Beret and Katie Sutton. ""Memory is always a Story.': An Interview with Antje Rávic Strubel." Women in German Yearbook 28 (2012). 98-112.
- Boa, Elizabeth. “Labyrinth, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh." In Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989, edited by Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Short, 131-55. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011.
- Stewart, Faye. “Queer Elements: The Poetics and Politics of Antje Rávic Strubel’s Literary Style.” Women in German Yearbook 34 (2014): 44-73.
- Klocke, Sonja E. Inscription and Rebellion: Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015.