Awards & Winners

Barbara Honigmann

Date of Birth 12-February-1949
Place of Birth Berlin
(Germany)
Nationality Germany
Profession Writer, Novelist
Barbara Honigmann is a German author and artist. Barbara Honigmann is the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her mother, Litzi Friedman, was the first wife of Kim Philby and her father, Georg Honigmann, was the chief editor of the "Berliner Zeitung". From 1967 to 1972, she studied theatre at Humboldt University in East Berlin. In the following years she worked as a dramatist and director in Brandenburg and Berlin. She has been a freelance writer since 1975. In 1984, she left the GDR and currently lives with her family in Strasbourg.

Awards by Barbara Honigmann

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