(1962-06-02) 2 June 1962 (age 61) Weimar, East Germany
Occupation
Novelist, playwright
Nationality
German, Swiss
Alma mater
University of Hamburg
Genre
German-language plays, social criticism, LGBT literature, German poetry
Years active
1997–present
Notable awards
Wolfgang Koeppen Prize, Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis
Website
www.sibylleberg.com
Sibylle Berg (born 2 June 1962) is a German-Swiss contemporary author and playwright. They write novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns. Their 16 books have been translated into 30 languages.[1] They have won numerous awards, including the Thüringer Literaturpreis, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. They have become an iconic figure in German alternative sub-cultures, gaining a large fan base among the LGBT community and the European artistic communities.[citation needed] They live in Switzerland and Israel.[2] Their 2019 work GRM. Brainfuck, a science fiction novel set in a dystopian near future[3][4] won the Swiss Book Prize and was noticed by The Washington Post,[5] and reached fourth place on the Spiegel Bestseller list, with the sequel, RCE, entering the list as highest entry of the week at place 14.[6] On 1 March 2023 Berg was invited as special guest to open the high-profile Elevate Festival in Graz.
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^"rowohlt-Theaterverlag :: Berg, Sibylle". rowohlt-Theaterverlag (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2020.
^"Attentat in Tel Aviv: Wir alle, die nicht morden, sind betroffen". Die Welt. 1 January 2016 – via welt.de.
^"Book Review: Grime by Sibylle Berg". www.publishersweekly.com. 14 September 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
^Oltermann, Philip (30 June 2019). "German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain". The Observer – via www.theguardian.com.
^"the washington post :: Berg, Sibylle". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
^"Roman von Sibylle Berg ist höchster Neueinsteiger". buchreport (in German). 12 May 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
^"Eröffnung des Elevate-Festivals durch Sibylle Berg". ORF (in German). 1 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
SibylleBerg (born 2 June 1962) is a German-Swiss contemporary author and playwright. They write novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and...
and a brother, William, who became Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. In September 1526, Sibylle was betrothed to Electoral Prince John Frederick of Saxony...
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2019 result Top candidate PARTEI – Non-inscrits 2.4% Martin Sonneborn, SibylleBerg ÖDP – Greens/EFA 1.0% Manuela Ripa Family Party ECPM EPP 0.7% Helmut...
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by the U.S. State Department during the Cold War Amerika (Berg novel), a novel by SibylleBerg Amerika (album), a 1996 album by Bo Kaspers Orkester Amerika...
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Zitronen and German bestseller author SibylleBerg, alongside actors Katja Riemann and Matthias Brandt to promote Berg's book Vielen dank für das Leben ("Many...
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2006. She now teamed up the (formerly East German) playwright-author SibylleBerg and with her agent Anne Wieser to set up a "writing school". In a "writing...
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