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Reading Jenny Erpenbeck, HEIMSUCHUNG (Frankfurt a. M. 2008, Eichborn).
Hertha-Koenig-Literature Award 2008 und dem Heimito von Doderer-Literature Award 2008
Jenny Erpenbeck comes from a literary family: her grandfather, grandmother and father were all published writers in a variety of genres, while her mother was a translator. She has worked on opera and musical productions since 1991 and is now a freelance writer and producer living near Graz, Austria and Berlin, Germany.
Jenny Erpenbeck (born in 1967) is an acclaimed German author who has won a number of prestigious literary prizes, including the Preis der Jury beim Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerb in Klagenfurt in 2001, the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2008, and the Preis der LiteraTour Nord in 2009.
She is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and author John Erpenbeck and the translator for Arabic Doris Kilias. On completion of secondary school in 1985 Jenny Erpenbeck trained as a bookbinder. She worked for various theatres helping with stage sets and costumes before stydying drama at the Humboldt-University in Berlin from 1988 to 1990 However, she also studied directing for opera and musical theatre under Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller, Peter Konwitschny the conservatoire "Hanns Eisler" Berlin. After graduating she first worked as assistant director at the opera house in Graz before directing her own productions at the same place. Since then she has ben a production director at various theatres in Germany and Austria. Apart from her work for the theatre, Jenny Erpenbeck is a writer of prose and plays. Her acclaimed 2008 novel Heimsuchung (The Visitation) is set in a house on a lake in Brandenburg, the haunted location of the life stories of 12 characters.
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