Claudia Schreiber

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Claudia Schreiber (born 1958 in Grebenstein-Schachten, Landkreis Kassel) is a German journalist and author. Her maiden name was Claudia Siebert, and her first books were published under this name.

After studying marketing, education and sociology at the University of Göttingen and the University of Mainz, she worked as an editor, reporter and presenter in the German media organizations Südwestfunk (SWF) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). After periods working abroad in Moscow and Brussels she is now living in Cologne and working as a freelance writer.

As of 2006, Schreiber's work has not yet been published in English, though her novel Emmas Glück has been published in several other languages including Dutch, French, Norwegian and Spanish, and her children's book Sultan und Kotzbrocken has also been published in Norwegian and Spanish. Emmas Glück has been her most successful work so far. It incorporated themes from her home region of North Hesse, and with its crisp, witty sentences, deadpan presentation of the improbable and eccentric, and broad sympathy for its cast of misfits, Schreiber's style in this book somewhat recalls that of Heinrich Böll. A film of this book, directed by Sven Taddicken and starring Jördis Treibel and Jürgen Vogel was released in Germany in 2006; its English title is Emma's Bliss.

[edit] Recognition

1989: "Journalistenpreis Entwicklungspolitik" (Prize for Journalists working on Development Policy) of the German President, awarded on the recommendation of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
2006: "Euregio-Schüler-Literaturpreis" for the novel Emmas Glück. (This prize is awarded by a jury of senior school students in the transnational Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, for a novel in German, French or Dutch)

[edit] Works

(as Claudia Siebert) Moskau ist anders (Moscow is different), nonfiction, 1994, ISBN 3546000889
(as Claudia Siebert) Der Auslandskorrespondent (The foreign correspondent), Novel, 1997, ISBN 3462026607
Emmas Glück (Emma's good fortune), novel, 2003, ISBN 3442458676
Sultan und Kotzbrocken, children's book, 2004, ISBN 3446204350