Jenny Erpenbeck (b. 1967) is an East German (and East Berlin-based) author of novels, prose, short stories, and plays. Although it is difficult to tie Erpenbeck’s works down to one or two fields, her writing plays with overlapping and convergent spaces, times, and histories. Much of her work deals in some way with East Germany and the difficulties of reunification, but she also writes about family, memory, and migration.
Lessons on Erpenbeck’s Work
Lessons from Related Themes
- al-Mozany, Der Marschländer: Bagdad, Beirut, Berlin (1999)
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module: Writing the Self/Other
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module
- Ein Virus kennt keine Moral Module, 1993
- Keça Filankes, “Zwei Çaylöffel Şekir,” 2020
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner, “Die Kindermörderin,” 1775
- Ostashevsky, “The Feeling Sonnets,” 2019
- Popoola, Also By Mail, 2013
