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Kathrin Passig
Passig in 2016
Passig in 2016
Born (1970-06-04) 4 June 1970 (age 55)
Deggendorf, West Germany (now Germany)
OccupationWriter
PeriodLate 20th – early 21st century
GenreNon-fiction books, short story
Notable worksYou Are Here (2006), Lexikon des Unwissens (2007)
Notable awardsIngeborg Bachmann Prize
2006

Kathrin Passig (born 4 June 1970) is a German author.

Biography

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Passig was born in 1970[1] in Deggendorf, a small town in Lower Bavaria. She is editor and programmer of the blog "Riesenmaschine"[2][3] which received the Grimme Online Award 2006, awarded by the renowned Adolf-Grimme-Institut. The same year, her short story "Sie befinden sich hier" ("You are here") got her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.[4] One of her most successful books is "Lexikon des Unwissens – Worauf es bisher keine Antwort gibt" ("Encyclopedia of Ignorance – Everything we don't know so far") published by Rowohlt in 2007.[5]

She also works as a translator, among her translations are works by William Leonard Marshall, Bob Dylan, Jacob Weisberg, and Harlan Coben.

Works

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  • with Ira Strübel: Die Wahl der Qual (2000, Rowohlt)
  • Sie befinden sich hier (2006, transl. You are here by Lucy Powell)
  • with Holm Friebe: Das nächste große Ding (2007, Rowohlt)
  • with Aleks Scholz: Lexikon des Unwissens (2007, Rowohlt)
  • with Ira Strübel: Strübel & Passig. Gesammelte Kolumnen (2007, Verbrecher)
  • with Sascha Lobo: Dinge geregelt kriegen – ohne einen Funken Selbstdisziplin (2009, Rowohlt)
  • with Aleks Scholz: Verirren. Eine Anleitung für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene (2010, Rowohlt)
  • with Aleks Scholz and Kai Schreiber: Das neue Lexikon des Unwissens. (2011, Rowohlt)
  • with Sascha Lobo: Internet – Segen oder Fluch (2012, Rowohlt)
  • with Johannes Jander: Weniger schlecht programmieren (2013, O'Reilly)

References

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  1. ^ "Kathrin Passig". Rowohlt (in German). 1 April 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Riesenmaschine – das brandneue Universum". riesenmaschine.de.
  3. ^ "Kathrin Passig". Germanistik University Münster (in German). Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Kathrin Passig". Körber-Stiftung (in German). 25 May 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Lexikon des Unwissens – Kathrin Passig, Aleks Scholz". Rowohlt (in German). 5 October 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
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