Judith Kuckart

Copyright: Renate von Mangoldt Born in 1959 in Schwelm/Westphalia


University studies in literature and theatre in Cologne and Berlin; master’s thesis on Else Lasker-Schüler

Dance training in Düsseldorf and Essen

1985 Choreographic theater in Heidelberg under Johann Kresnik

1986 - 1998 Founds and directs the Skoronel Dance Theatre in Berlin

1991 Rauriser Literature Award

1997 Rheinsberg Town Chronicler

1998 - 2000 "Penthesilea" and other stage productions at the Baden-Baden City Theatre

2000 Sojourns at the Villa Decius in Krakau and the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles

2002 Directs and writes text for the play, Blaubart wartet (i.e Bluebeard is waiting)

2004 Kranichstein Literature Prize; New York bursary; German Critics’s Prize

2005/2006 Scholarship holder at the Collegium Budapest

2006 Margarete Schrader Prize for Literature of the University of Paderborn

Sabbatical year of the City of Zürich

2008 Hermann Hesse Bursary of the Town of Calw

Judith Kuckart lives in Berlin and Zürich

    Literature about the fall of the wall

    Literature about the fall of the wall and the process of Germany's reunification.

    Literature in Germany

    Articles and Links on Selected Topics

    Translation programme of the Goethe-Institut

    Translation of German literature

    1989 – 10 Wall Stories

    1989 – 10 Wall Stories
    Stories by famous writers, illustrated by the comic-artist Henning Wagenbreth: a book, an exhibition, a multitude of events