Angela Steidele
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Angela Steidele
Angela Steidele, born in 1968, researches the history of lesbianism before 1869, when the term homosexuality was first characterized by Karl Maria Kertbeny. Scientific research, literary writing – that is Angela Steidele’s signature feature. For her novel Rosenstengel (2015, Matthes und Seitz) she was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize, her biography Anne Lister (2017, Matthes und Seitz) was an international success.
Angela Steidele, born in 1968, researches the history of lesbianism before 1869, when the term homosexuality was first characterized by Karl Maria Kertbeny. Scientific research, literary writing – that is Angela Steidele’s signature feature. For her novel Rosenstengel (2015, Matthes und Seitz) she was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize, her biography Anne Lister (2017, Matthes und Seitz) was an international success.
Awards (selection)
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2023 (nomination) for Aufklärung
Klopstock-Preis 2023
Dieter Wellershoff Fellowship 2021
Bavarian Book Prize 2015
Fellowship of the SK Stiftung Kultur 2013
Fellowship of the Kunststiftung NRW 2012, 2009
Alfred Döblin Prize (nominated) 2011
Non-Fiction Prize NDR Kultur (shortlisted) 2010
Fellowship of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar 2006
Gleim Prize for Literature 2005
Klopstock-Preis 2023
Dieter Wellershoff Fellowship 2021
Bavarian Book Prize 2015
Fellowship of the SK Stiftung Kultur 2013
Fellowship of the Kunststiftung NRW 2012, 2009
Alfred Döblin Prize (nominated) 2011
Non-Fiction Prize NDR Kultur (shortlisted) 2010
Fellowship of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar 2006
Gleim Prize for Literature 2005
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2023 (nomination) for Aufklärung
Klopstock-Preis 2023
Dieter Wellershoff Fellowship 2021
Bavarian Book Prize 2015
Fellowship of the SK Stiftung Kultur 2013
Fellowship of the Kunststiftung NRW 2012, 2009
Alfred Döblin Prize (nominated) 2011
Non-Fiction Prize NDR Kultur (shortlisted) 2010
Fellowship of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar 2006
Gleim Prize for Literature 2005
Klopstock-Preis 2023
Dieter Wellershoff Fellowship 2021
Bavarian Book Prize 2015
Fellowship of the SK Stiftung Kultur 2013
Fellowship of the Kunststiftung NRW 2012, 2009
Alfred Döblin Prize (nominated) 2011
Non-Fiction Prize NDR Kultur (shortlisted) 2010
Fellowship of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar 2006
Gleim Prize for Literature 2005
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2022
Angela SteideleYear of Publication: 2022
Enlightenment
Leipzig in the 18th century, in its most brilliant period. Merchants carry not only goods but also ideas to the whole of Europe from the fairs. Johann Sebastian Bach surveys the universe in musical notes, assisted by his wife, the singer Anna Magdalena, and his eldest daughter Dorothea. Meanwhile, Johann Christoph and Luise Gottsched are exploring the German language and tirelessly spread the...
Year of Publication: 2021
Angela SteideleYear of Publication: 2021
In Men’s Clothing
Catharina Linck was the last woman in Europe to be executed for lesbian sexual activity. Raised in an orphanage in Halle, she began dressing in men’s clothes at the age of fifteen, called herself Anastasius Rosenstengel and »caressed« numerous »beautiful female persons« with a »stuffed male member made of leather«. After a chequered life of travelling as...
Year of Publication: 2010
Angela SteideleYear of Publication: 2010
Stories of Love
Angela Steidele is a German author who in her writings focuses on female love and female homosexuality respectively at the time immediately before its seizure by discourse, i.e. its ‘invention’ and subsequent ‘pathologization’, in the late 19th century.
Along the relationship between Arthur Schopenhauer’s sister Adele and Sibylle Mertens that oscillated...
Along the relationship between Arthur Schopenhauer’s sister Adele and Sibylle Mertens that oscillated...
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