Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck

Рождение : 1967-03-12, Berlin, Germany

История

Jenny Erpenbeck is a German author and opera director. She is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. In 2015 the English translation of her novel The End Of Days (Aller Tage Abend) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Профиль

Jenny Erpenbeck

Фильмы

Sand
Short Story
The grandmother figure in the story is an “artistic speaker” who performs in town but seems enigmatic to her own granddaughter. Over the course of the narrative, the granddaughter realizes that, far from succumbing to despair in old age, her grandmother is full of “young laughter that has found its way back to an old body.”
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Producer's Assistant
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.