Andrea Heuser | |
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| Born | 5 October 1972 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, translator and literary scholar |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Website | Andrea Heuser in: Reimfrei (in German) |
Andrea Heuser (born 5 October 1972 in Cologne) is a German writer, poet, translator and literary scholar. [1]
Andrea Heuser has studied German philology, politics and comparative religious studies in Cologne and Bonn. [2] In 2008 she earned a doctorate with a dissertation on German-Jewish-literature. [3] Her study was published in 2011 with the title Vom Anderen zum Gegenüber. „Jüdischkeit“ in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur (From the Other to the vis-à-vis. “Jewishness“ in German contemporary literature). [4] Andrea Heuser is herself active in the field of literature, with poetry, prose, libretti and musical theatre. [5] She had teaching assignments at the University of Cologne and the University of Television and Film Munich. In the Munich poetic society, "Lyrik Kabinett", she initiated the Autorenwerkstatt (workshop for authors) and the project Lust auf Lyrik. Gedichte an Schulen. (In the mood for poetry. Poems in schools). [6] In addition to that, she moderated a series of poetry events named Lyrik-Plattform in Munich together with Karin Fellner, Augusta Laar and Gabriele Trinckler. Andrea Heuser is member of the poetry groups Lyrinx and Reimfrei. [7] On the website lyrikline.org of the Haus für Poesie Berlin, Andrea Heuser's poems can be listened to as well as her translations of the works of the Lebanese woman poet Hanane Aad. [8] In 2004, her poems were published by onomato Verlag in Düsseldorf. In 2014, her debut novel was published at DuMont [9] in Cologne. [10]
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