Fanny Morweiser

Fanny Morweiser is a German writer.

Curriculum Vitae

On 11th March 1940 Morweiser was born in Ludwigshafen. She studied the subjects sculpturing, painting and drawing at the Freie Akademie in Mannheim. Today she lives in Mosbach, a pictures town close to the Odenwald and the Neckar Valley in south-western Germany.

In 1971 Morweiser's first book ’’Lalu lalula, arme kleine Ophelia – Eine unheimliche Liebesgeschichte’’ was published by the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich (Switzerland). Further collections of short stories and novels followed and til today she has already written thirteen volumes. In the 1980th two of her stories were used as basis for two feature films, which were shown in German TV. In 2002 she was honoured with the office of the ‘’Turmschreiber’’ (Writer of the Tower) in Deidesheim.

Some of Morweiser’s short stories had been translated into English and were published in different American Journals. For example: The Taxi Dancer, in: The Antigonish Review 119 (1999), p. 29-32, or: Fervent Red, in: New Orleans Review 27/1 (2001), p, 138-144.

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