# Anna Kaleri

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**Anna Kaleri** (born 1974 in [Wippra](/source/Wippra)) is a [German](/source/Germans) writer and screenwriter.

## Biography

Anna Kaleri was born 1974 in the [Harz Mountains](/source/Harz_Mountains) in the former [GDR](/source/East_Germany). She studied from 1996 to 2002 at the [German Institute for Literature](/source/German_Institute_for_Literature) in Leipzig. After her [diploma](/source/Diploma) from this school for writers, she studied [Philosophy](/source/Philosophy). Currently, she lives in [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig) and works freelance since 2002. She writes [fiction](/source/Fiction), [screenplays](/source/Screenplays) and does journalistic works. Her prose début "This man exists" was published in 2003. Three years later, in 2006, her autobiographical novel "Highlife" which broached the time of [Die Wende](/source/Die_Wende) was published. After years of research, Kaleri wrote the novel *Der Himmel ist ein Fluss* (2012), a fictional approach to the life of her unknown grandmother who died at the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II) in [Masuria](/source/Masuria).[1]

## Bibliography

- *Es gibt diesen Mann*, [Luchterhand Literaturverlag](/source/Luchterhand_Literaturverlag) 2003[2]
- *Hochleben*, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2006
- *Der Himmel ist ein Fluss*, Graf Verlag 2012 (hardcover), List Verlag 2014 (softcover)[3]

## Awards

- 1997 Weddinger Literaturpreis
- 2003 Wiepersdorf – Stipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung
- 2004 Grenzgängerstipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
- 2004 Hörspielstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
- 2007 Arbeitsstipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung

## References

1. [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung](/source/Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung) 28 February 2013: "Masurisches Schicksal" by Andreas Platthaus

1. [Deutschlandradio Kultur](/source/Deutschlandradio_Kultur) 26 January 2004: [„Zartes und Krasses“ by Bettina Hesse](http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zartes-und-krasses.700.de.html?dram:article_id=81610)

1. [Leipziger Volkszeitung](/source/Leipziger_Volkszeitung) 2012, October 26th: [„Berauschend, tragisch, groß“ by Janina Fleischer](http://www.annakaleri.de/LVZ261012.jpg) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20131220055717/http://www.annakaleri.de/LVZ261012.jpg) 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.annakaleri.de)

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