Background
Antje Strubel was born in Potsdam and grew up in Ludwigsfelde, East Germany.
Antje Strubel was born in Potsdam and grew up in Ludwigsfelde, East Germany.
After leaving school, Antje Strubel first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied literature, psychology and American studies in Potsdam and New New York
She lives in Potsdam. In New York she also worked as a lighting assistant in a theater. Born Antje Strubel, she took the name Rávic to designate her writing identity.
Strubel is part of a generation of writers who were born in East Germany but started publishing after the fall of the Wall.
Much of her fiction deals with identity and transformation in contemporary Europe. In 2001, she published her first two novels, Offene Blende and Unter Schnee (translated as Snowed Under).
That year she also received the Ernst Willner Prize in Klagenfurt. Like many of her texts, both of these novels focus on East and West German women traveling abroad and reinventing themselves after the fall of the Wall.
lieutenant was also shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize.
Strubel has translated books by American novelist Joan Didion into German. Strubel has also written numerous short stories and published articles, commentaries, and critical reviews in newspapers and literary journals.