Annette Mingels
Year of birth: 1971
lives in Zurich
International Writers and Translators' Center
15. October 2008 -
15. November 2008
Villa Decius
01. March 2009 -
31. March 2009
Köln: DuMont, 2007
Der aufrechte Gang
Köln: DuMont, 2006
Die Liebe der Matrosen
Köln: DuMont, 2005
Puppenglück
Bern: Zytglogge, 2003
Dürrenmatt und Kierkegaard
Die Kategorie des Einzelnen als gemeinsame Denkform. Dissertation.
Köln: Böhlau, 2003
Annette Mingels was born in Cologne in 1971. She studied German, Linguistics and Sociology in Frankfurt, Cologne, Bern and Fribourg. In 2001, she earned a doctorate with a thesis on Sören Kierkegaard and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. She worked as an assistant at the German Institute of the Neuchâtel University until March 2002. Since then, Annette Mingels has lived in Zurich and works as a writer, journalist (including "FAZ", "GEO", "Tages-Anzeiger", "DAS MAGAZIN", "Radio DRS 2"), and as an assistant lecturer.
In 2003, her first novel "Puppenglück" ("Dolls' Happiness") was published with the Zytglogge publishing house. In 2005, the novel "Die Liebe der Matrosen" ("The Love of Sailors") followed. Like her latest novel "Der aufrechte Gang" ("Walking Upright"), it was published with the DuMont publishing house.
Among others, Annette Mingels’ literary work has been recognised with the scholarship of the Eighth Literary Course of Klagenfurt (2004), the "Esslinger Bahnwärter" scholarship (2005), the LCB residency scholarship Berlin (2006), the Subsidy Award of Sylt-Quelle and the Cultural Recognition of the Zurich canton for her work "Romantiker. Geschichten von der Liebe" ("Romantics. Stories of Love." 2007).
The HALMA grant for Annette Mingels was made possible by the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia.
