About Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller, born in East Berlin in 1951, lives as a freelance writer in Berlin and Aargau. In 1986, she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, in 1995 the Alfred Döblin Prize for her two-part story “Verfrühte Tierliebe” (Premature Animal Love), in 2002 the ZDF Prize, 3sat, and the City of Mainz Prize in 2002, the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor in 2005, the LiteraTour Nord Prize, the Gerty Spies Prize, and the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2008. In 2012/2013, she was a scholarship holder at Villa Massimo, received the Kleist Prize, and was a scholarship holder at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul in 2013/2014. In 2017, she received the Günter Grass Prize, and in 2023, the Turmschreiber Prize from the city of Deidesheim.
