Katja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works.

The daughter of Inge Lange, an East German party functionary, Katja Lange-Müller was expelled from school at the age of 17 for "unsocialist" behavior. From an early age, she and her circle of friends were carefully watched by the Stasi

Stasi

The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered...

. Prevented from attending college, she first learned to be a typesetter, and later worked as a nurse in a psychiatric clinic. At the age of 28, she was accepted to the "Johannes R. Becher" Literature Institute in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, marking the beginning of her career as a writer.

Works

• Wehleid – wie im Leben, Frankfurt am Main 1986
• Kasper Mauser – die Feigheit vorm Freund, Köln 1988
• Verfrühte Tierliebe, Köln 1995
• Bahnhof Berlin, München 1997 (ed.)
• Die Letzten, Köln 2000
• Biotopische Zustände, Berlin 2001
• Preußens letzte Pioniere, Rheinsberg 2001
• Stille Post, Schwetzingen 2001 (with Hans Scheib)
• Vom Fisch bespuckt, Köln 2002 (ed.)
• Der süße Käfer und der saure Käfer, Berlin 2002 (zusammen mit Ingrid Jörg)
• Was weiß die Katze vom Sonntag?, Berlin 2002 (with Jonas Maron and Monika Maron
  Monika Maron
  Monika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began...
  
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• Die Enten, die Frauen und die Wahrheit, Köln 2003
• Der nicaraguanische Hund, Berlin 2003
• o.ä., München 2003 (with Traute Langner-Geißler)
• Böse Schafe, Köln 2007

Awards

• 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...
  
  , 1986
• Alfred-Döblin-Preis, 1995
• Berlin Literature Prize, 1996
• Preis der Bestenliste des Südwestrundfunks, 2001
• Stadtschreiber-Literaturpreis of the city Mainz
  Mainz
  Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
  
   and the television station ZDF
  ZDF
  Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
  
  , 2002
• Roswitha Prize
  Roswitha Prize
  The Roswitha Prize is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women.The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim....
  
   of the city Bad Gandersheim
  Bad Gandersheim
  Bad Gandersheim is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Northeim. , it had a population 10,572.Bad Gandersheim has many half-timbered houses and is located on the German Framework Road .- Geography :...
  
  , 2002
• Kassel Literary Prize
  Kassel Literary Prize
  The Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor , established 1985, is an annual prize awarded by the Stiftung Brückner-Kühner foundation in recognition of "grotesque and comic work" at a high artistic level. It is also given to literary professors whose work is connected to this theme...
  
  , 2005