Born 1974 in Potsdam, Antje Rávic Strubel majored in American and German literature at Potsdam University and New York University. While in New York, she worked as a lighting technician at the Wings Theater. She lives and works as an author and free-lance journalist in Berlin. She is the recipient of several literary prizes, including the Bremer Literature Promotion Prize (2005), Marburger Literature Prize (2005), the Roswitha-von-Gandersheim-Prize (2003), Promotion Prize for Literature from the Academy of Arts (2002), and the Ernst-Willner-Award, Klagenfurt (2001). She was writer-in-residence at the Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations.
Publications:
Unter Schnee (2001)
Offene Blende (2001)
Fremd Gehen: Ein Nachtstück (2002)
Tupolew 134 (2004)
Kältere Schichten der Luft (2007)
Vom Dorf. Abenteuergeschichten zum Fest (2007)
Gebrauchsanweisung für Schweden (2008)
Sturz der Tage in die Nacht (2011)
Gebrauchsanweisung für Potsdam und Brandenburg (2012)