Sibylle Knauss


Sibylle Knauss is a German writer and academic.

Biography

Knauss studied German, English and Theology in Munich and Heidelberg. Starting in 1970, she worked in a grammar school. Since 1981, Knauss has been working as a freelance writer. For over 20 years she lived and worked in St. Ingbert. Knauss is a professor at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in the field of "screenplay." She is a member of the PEN Center in Germany. Knauss lives in Remseck near Stuttgart.

Awards and honors

Knauss' first work Oh Elise or love is a solitary business was awarded the 1982 prize of the New Literary Society in Hamburg. Her bestseller Evas Cousine was listed in the New York Times "Books of the Year" in 2002.
In July 2006, Knauss was awarded the "Saarland Art Prize." The jury stated: "The clear composition of her novels is especially worth mentioning. Her great themes have been thoroughly researched; Sibylle Knauss must be attested to an excellent literary treatment of her subjects. For her novels, she chooses mainly historical figures of women whose ways of life she describes in a particular way. Sibylle Knauss' language is free of ideological ballast, her novels read with pleasure."
Saarland Minister of Culture, Jürgen Schreier, described Knauss as "an outstanding literary ambassador of our country."
Knauss was listed in the list of 50 major Saarlanders by the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunale Frauenbeauftrag in Saarland.

Reviews

Edelgard Abenstein, Deutschlandradio Kultur: "Knauss' talent is always reflected in the successful combination of facts and fiction, such as in "Eden," where she presents herself as a master of the biographical novel, whose greatest strengths lie in the life of the adventurer Mary Leakey, where style, wit, and color sparkle."

Selected publications