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 Kinkel in 2015 | |
| Born | September 27, 1969 Bamberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Writer |
Tanja Kinkel (born 27 September 1969) is a German writer who is known, among other things, as the author of several historical novels. She lives in Munich.
Tanja Kinkel | |
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| Kinkel in 2015 | |
| Born | September 27, 1969 Bamberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Writer |
Tanja Kinkel (born 27 September 1969) is a German writer who is known, among other things, as the author of several historical novels. She lives in Munich.
Tanja Kinkel grew up in Bamberg and began writing stories and poems at the age of eight. In 1978 she won a youth literature prize and in 1979 she wrote her first novel. In 1987 she received first prize in the Franconian Youth Literature Competition for the best individual text.
After graduating from the Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Bamberg, she began studying German, theater and communication studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1988. In 1991, Kinkel received a scholarship at the University of Television and Film Munich, which she used to study screenwriting. This was followed in 1992 by a sponsorship award from the Free State of Bavaria for young writers. In the same year she founded the registered association "Bread and Books", which promotes the education of children in Africa, Germany and India. In 1995 she was sponsored by the German Ministry of the Interior at the "Casa Baldi" in Olevano Romano near Rome and in 1996 she received a scholarship at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
In 1997 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the work of Lion Feuchtwanger. [1] In 2001 she was a founding member of the International Feuchtwanger Society in Los Angeles. From 2001 she was on the advisory board of the Bertelsmann book sales club until its dissolution at the end of 2002.
Kinkel is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and the Federal Association of Young Authors (BVjA). She has been a member of the Munich Tower Writers since 2004.
In 2006, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art appointed her to the board of trustees of the International Artists' House Villa Concordia, Bamberg. In the same year, Kinkel was recognized as a creative achiever at the 100 Minds of Tomorrow exhibition.
In 2007 she became patron of the Federal Children's Hospice Association.
At the end of 2002 she took part in a homage to Michael Ende's The Neverending Story . The result of her engagement with Ende's fantasy world was the novel The King of Fools, published in 2003. In 2015, with Sleep of Reason, she dedicated herself for the first time to a topic from the recent past, the German Autumn of 1977. [2]
In 2017, Kinkel was a tower clerk in the small town of Abenberg in Central Franconia, the first woman to hold this position. As a result of her work there, she published the volume of short stories Voices from Abenberg. [3] Also in 2017, the film adaptation of her third novel The Puppeteers was broadcast as a television film in two parts on ARD. [4] In 2020, her first series, The Prison Doctor, designed for listening, was published by the audio book provider Audible. [5]
Since 2015 she has been a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich; teaching in the module "History and Media: How History Comes to the Media".
Since 2018 she is guest lecturer at the University of Television and Film Munich; teaching assignment "Research".
Since December 2019 she is president of the International Feuchtwanger Society, Los Angeles.
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