Claudia Schreiber

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Claudia Schreiber 2007
Claudia Schreiber 2007

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, as of 2007 she is 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. Her latest book, Ihr ständige Begleiter (subtitled Fast eine Liebesgeschichte - "almost a love story"), also draws on her personal history: it is the story of a young woman growing up in a strict and narrow Christian community, as Schreiber did, and the novel recounts the heroine's struggle to escape from her pervading relationship with God, who constantly appears to her and with whom she converses familiarly.

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[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 fortune), novel, 2003, ISBN 3442458676
  • Sultan und Kotzbrocken, children's book, 2004, ISBN 3446204350
  • Ihr ständige Begleiter (Her constant companion), novel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04973-3

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