Inger-Maria Mahlke Explained

Inger-Maria Mahlke (born 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German author. In 2018 she was the recipient of the German Book Prize.

Life

Mahlke grew up in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. She studied Law at the Free University of Berlin, where she worked in the department of Criminology. She lives in Berlin.^[1]

Writing career

In 2009 she won the Open Mike award,^[2] an international German-language literary prize established in 1993 for new writers. Her first novel was Silberfischchen (Silverfish) published in 2010,^[3] for which she was awarded the inaugural Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize of the Hamburg Harbour Front Literaturfestival, an award for debut novelists established in the same year.^[4]

In 2012 she was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize of the Festival of German-Language Literature. Other awards followed including a shortlisting for the 2015 German Book Prize for her novel Wie Ihr wollt.^{[5] [6]} In 2018 she was awarded the German Book Prize for her novel, Archipel.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Mahlke is a member of the PEN Centre Germany.^[10]

Works

• Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Silberfischchen . 2010 . Aufbau . 978-3-351-03309-5 . 1. Aufl . Berlin . 660149626.
• Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Rechnung offen . 978-3-8270-1130-5 . Berlin . 827925112.
• Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Wie Ihr wollt . 2015 . Berlin Verlag . 978-3-8270-1213-5 . Berlin . 898077026.
• Book: Jügler, Matthias . Suhrkamp Verlag . Wie wir leben wollen Texte für Solidarität und Freiheit . Berlin . 2016 . 978-3-518-46710-7 . 936193732 . de.
• Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Rowohlt Verlag . Archipel . Reinbek bei Hamburg . 2018 . 978-3-498-04224-0 . 1033660660 . de.

Literature

• Takis Würger: Überzeugungstäterin. Besuch bei der Schriftstellerin Inger-Maria Mahlke. In: Der Spiegel. No. 39/2018, pp. 126f.

References

1. News: Deutscher Buchpreis geht an Inger-Maria Mahlke. NDR. 2018-10-23. de.
2. Web site: Open Mike Award.
3. Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Silberfischchen : Roman . 2010 . Aufbau . 978-3-351-03309-5 . 1. Aufl . Berlin . 660149626.
4. Web site: Mahlke, news report.
5. Web site: German Book Prize shortlist 2015.
6. Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Wie Ihr wollt Roman . 2015 . Berlin Verlag . 978-3-8270-1213-5 . Berlin . 898077026.
7. Web site: German Book Prize nomination 2018.
8. Book: Mahlke, Inger-Maria . Archipel . 978-3-498-04224-0 . 1. Auflage . Reinbek . 1033660660.
9. News: Roman des Jahres: Inger-Maria Mahlke gewinnt den Deutschen Buchpreis. 2018-10-08. Spiegel Online. 2018-10-23.
10. Web site: PEN Centre Germany, Website.