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JUDITH KUCKART

Judith Kuckart, born in 1959, lives as an author and theatre director in Berlin. In 1986, she founded the dance theatre Skoronel, which she managed until 1998. She published the novel 'Lenas Liebe' (2002), the short story collection 'Die Autorenwitwe' (2003), the new edition of her novel 'Der Bibliothekar' (2004) as well as the novels 'Kaiserstraße' (2006), 'Die Verdächtige' (2008), 'Wünsche' (2013), 'Dass man durch Belgien muss auf dem Weg zum Glück' (2015) and 'Kein Sturm, nur Wetter' (2019), 'Café der Unsichtbaren' (2022) and "Die Welt zwischen den Nachrichten" (2024) with DuMont. Judith Kuckart has been awarded numerous literary prizes and including the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Preis (2012).