Lena Gorelik

Lena Gorelik is a German writer. In 2009, she received the Ernst-Hoferichter Prize.

Lena Gorelik (2012)

Biography

She was born in St. Petersburg in 1981 in a Russian-Jewish family. Her family emigrated to Germany in 1992 as quota refugees.[1] She studied at the German School of Journalism in Munich and then took a two-year interdisciplinary Master's course in Eastern European studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.[1][2]

Her first novel, Meine weißen Nächte (My White Nights) was published in the autumn of 2004, and was acclaimed by Bücher as “the best new book about Germany - an absolutely charming book”, while the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that “‘My White Nights’ proves that new German literature can possess both levity and gravitas.” In 2005, the book won the Bavarian Culture Prize in the category of literature. Her second novel Hochzeit in Jerusalem (Wedding in Jerusalem) was published in spring 2007, and was nominated for the German Book Prize 2007.[1] She was honored for her work with the Ernst-Hoferichter Prize in 2009 [3][1] and a series of other awards.[4]

In 2006, she completed her Master's thesis "Jews - Russians - Germans. The Perceptual Change of Russian Jews in the German Media 1989-2006 Against the Background of German-Jewish Relations".[5][6]

References
  1. "Referenten der internationalen Konferenz "Ausgerechnet Deutschland!" Jüdisch-russische Einwanderung in die Bundesrepublik". Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  2. "Author biography: Lena Gorelik" (in German). 3sat. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  3. Landeshauptstadt München, Redaktion. "Grüß Gott bei der Münchner Stadtverwaltung". Landeshauptstadt München. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  4. "Bekannte Scheffel-Preisträger – Beispiele" (in German). Literarische Gesellschaft Karlsruhe - Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  5. "Lena Gorelik". Elite Studies Eastern European Studies - LMU Munich. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  6. Lena Gorelik. "Juden – Russen – Deutsche Der Wahrnehmungswandel der russischen Juden in den deutschen Medien 1989 – 2006 vor dem Hintergrund der deutsch-jüdischen Beziehungen" (PDF). Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Osteuropastudien. p. 79. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
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