Anna Kaleri

Anna Kaleri (born 1974 in Wippra) is a German writer.

Biography

Anna Kaleri was born 1974 in the Harz Mountains in the former GDR. She studied from 1996 to 2002 at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. After her diploma on this noted school for writers, she studied Philosophy. Currently she lives in Leipzig and works freelance since 2002. She writes fiction, screenplays and does journalistic works. Her prose début "This man exists" was published in 2003. Three years later, in 2006, her autobiografical novel "Highlife" which broached the time of Die Wende was published. After years of research, Kaleri wrotes the novel "Sky is a mirror" (German: Der Himmel ist ein Fluss, 2012), a fictional approach to the life of her unknown grandmother how died at the end of World War II in Masuria.

Anthologies (selection)

• Was ist Liebe Rowohlt 2000
• Der wilde Osten Fischer 2002
• All die schönen Sünden Rowohlt 2003
• Signum 2004/ 1
• Tierische Liebe Eichborn 2005
• Macondo 2008/ 1
• Signum 2009/ 1
• Stimmen aus Sachsen Kulturstiftung Sachsen 2009
• Es gibt eine andere Welt Poetenladen 2010
• Collection Hartmann Bregenz
• Vokabelkrieger VII Hybriden-Verlag 2013
• Opus Kulturmagazin No. 43 2014
• Allmende No. 94 2014

Works

• Es gibt diesen Mann, Luchterhand Verlag 2003
• Hochleben, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2006

Awards

• 1997 Weddinger Literaturpreis
• 2003 Wiepersdorf - Stipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung
• 2004 Grenzgängerstipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
• 2004 Hörspielstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
• 2007 Arbeitsstipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung

External links

• Literature by and about Anna Kaleri in the German National Library catalogue
• Official Homepage