Anna Winger

Anna Winger (born 1970) is an American writer who lives in Berlin, Germany. She is author of the novel 'This Must Be the Place' (Riverhead) and creator of the television drama 'Deutschland 83.'

Winger was raised in Kenya, Massachusetts and Mexico, and educated at Columbia University in New York. Her maiden name is Anna LeVine. Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Winger's radio series for NPR Worldwide, Berlin Stories, is a literary archive about the city. It has been on the air since 2009.

About

In 2002, Winger and her husband Joerg Winger moved to Berlin, Germany.[1] Before moving, she lived in New York and her husband lived in Cologne. The two decided that Berlin felt like somewhere in the middle. Her favorite Berlin novels are 'The Wall Jumper' by Peter Schneider and 'Visitation' by Jenny Erpenbeck.[2] Before she started writing, Winger worked as a professional photographer for more than a decade.

Works

'Deutschland 83,' a television drama, is set to broadcast on Sundance TV (USA) in June 2015 and on RTL (Germany) in October 2015. The series, an 8-episode drama, about a young East German spy on an undercover mission to West Germany in 1983, had its world premiere when the first two episodes were shown at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. It will be the first German-language series ever shown on American television.

Winger's first novel, This Must Be the Place, was published in 2008 by Riverhead Books.

She is currently working on a new novel that takes place in Mexico. She is also developing another television series, set in contemporary Berlin, which deals directly with themes of immigration and integration in modern Europe.

References

  1. ↑ Schillinger, Liesl. "Anna Winger's 'This Must Be The Place'". New York Times. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ "A Brief Conversation with Anna Winger". World Literature Today. Retrieved March 14, 2013.

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