Barbara Bongartz

Field of Practice:

Literature

City, Country:

Düsseldorf, Germany

Year:

1998, 1999

Stay(s):

Sept 1999 - Feb 2000

Born 1957 in Cologne.

Study of theatre, film and television in Cologne.

1984-88 active as a free-lance film author.

1989 completion of doctorate; active as a lecturer at the Institut für Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft in Cologne.

Since 1996 a free-lance writer.

Numerous publications, including: “Eine der Geschichten aus Donner & Sturm” (short novel) and “Örtliche Leidenschaften – Compilationes” (novel, both 1997). Author of texts on art.

1996 recipient of the Literaturförderpreis Düsseldorf, 1997 of a grant from the City of Amsterdam.

selected by

J. M. Coetzee