Education
Andrea Heuser has studied German philology, politics and comparative religious studies in Cologne and Bonn.
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In 2008 she earned a doctorate with a dissertation on German-Jewish-literature. 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).
Andrea Heuser is herself active in the field of literature, with poetry, prose, libretti and musical theatre.
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). 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.
On the website lyrikline of the Berliner Literaturwerkstatt, Andrea Heuser’s poems can be listened to, as well as her translations of the works of the Lebanese poet Hanane Aad.
In 2004 her poems were published at onomato Verlag in Düsseldorf. In 2014 her debut novel was published at Dumont in Cologne. 2000: by edition zeitklang 2002: by amphion-records 2007: by Eichborn Lido.
Achievements
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2006: Award Preis der Bodenseeländer (IBK) für Lyrik 2007: Sponsorship grant Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize 2007: Grant of the Hermann-Sudermann-Stiftung für Autoren 2009: Sponsorship award of the Literaturpreis Wartholz 2009: Literary grant Literaturpreis der Landeshauptstadt München 2010: Working grant from the Deutschen Literaturfonds for her novel Augustas Garten 2012: Finalist at Lyrikpreis Meran.
Membership
Andrea Heuser is member of the poetry groups Lyrinx and Reimfrei.
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Born
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Nationality
Germany
Awards
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2006: Award Preis der Bodenseeländer (IBK) für Lyrik 2007: Sponsorship grant Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize 2007: Grant of the Hermann-Sudermann-Stiftung für Autoren 2009: Sponsorship award of the Literaturpreis Wartholz 2009: Literary grant Literaturpreis der Landeshauptstadt München 2010: Working grant from the Deutschen Literaturfonds for her novel Augustas Garten 2012: Finalist at Lyrikpreis Meran2006: Award Preis der Bodenseeländer (IBK) für Lyrik 2007: Sponsorship grant Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize 2007: Grant of the Hermann-Sudermann-Stiftung für Autoren 2009: Sponsorship award of the Literaturpreis Wartholz 2009: Literary grant Literaturpreis der Landeshauptstadt München 2010: Working grant from the Deutschen Literaturfonds for her novel Augustas Garten 2012: Finalist at Lyrikpreis Meran