Life and Works

Passig was born in 1970 in a small town in Lower Bavaria

Lower Bavaria

Lower Bavaria is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of the state.- Geography :Lower Bavaria is subdivided into two regions - Landshut and Donau-Wald. Recent election results mark it as the most conservative part of Germany, generally giving huge...

. She is editor and programmer of the blog “Riesenmaschine” 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

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

The Festival of German-Language Literature, formerly Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, is a literary competition which takes place yearly in Klagenfurt, Austria...

. 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

Rowohlt

Rowohlt Verlag is a publishing house based in Reinbek and also Hamburg and Berlin, part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group . The company was created in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt.- Parts of the company :* Kindler Verlag...

 in 2007.

She also works as a translator, among her translations are works by William Leonard Marshall

William Leonard Marshall

William Marshall is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series....

, Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Jacob Weisberg

Jacob Weisberg

Jacob Weisberg is an American political journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company. Weisberg is also a Newsweek columnist. He served as the editor of Slate magazine for six years, until stepping down in June 2008...

, and Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past and often have multiple plot twists...

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Works

• 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
  Sascha Lobo
  Sascha Lobo is a German blogger, writer, journalist and Copywriter. Lobo's work is primarily concerned with the Internet and with the social effects of new technology.- Career :...
  
  : Dinge geregelt kriegen – ohne einen Funken Selbstdisziplin (2009, Rowohlt)
• with Aleks Scholz: Verirren. Eine Anleitung für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene (2010, Rowohlt)