Draft:Fabienne Pakleppa

Fabienne Pakleppa (born 27 September 1950 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer.

Life
Although she grew up in French-speaking Switzerland, she writes exclusively in German, the language that once kept her out of school. After graduating from high school in 1970, she studied German, Romance languages and philosophy at University of Geneva. She has lived in Germany since 1972, first in Heidelberg and since 1976 in Munich. She has held various jobs, particularly in psychiatry and the film industry, as a French teacher, lecturer at the adult education centre, translator, editor and journalist. Since 1990, she has lived primarily as a writer, also as a ghostwriter.

Works

 * Himmelsjäger, novel, Phantastische Bibliothek Suhrkamp 1993 ISBN 3-51838-714-6
 * Die Aufsässigen, novel, Insel Verlag 1995 ISBN 3-45816-687-4
 * Schließ die Augen, short story collection, Attika Verlag 1997
 * Die Birke, novel, Luchterhand Verlag 1999 ISBN 3-63087-031-7
 * LustOpfer (F. Pakleppa, Volker Derlath) 2002 ISBN 3-93403-683-X
 * Mein unverschämter Liebhaber, erotic short stories, Heyne Verlag 2000 ISBN 3-45319-532-9
 * Marben, Ashti (Iraq) Im Schatten des Diktators. My life in Iraq recorded by Fabienne Pakleppa. Ullstein-Verlag 2003 ISBN 3-548-36470-5
 * As if the snow covered everything. Eine Krankenschwester erinnert sich by Ingeborg Ochsenknecht, recorded by Fabienne Pakleppa, Econ Verlag 2004 ISBN 3-430-17245-4
 * Die Welt in meinen Händen. Ein Leben ohne Hören and Sehen. by Peter Hepp, with Margherita Hepp and Fabienne Pakleppa, List Verlag 2005 ISBN 3-471-79534-0
 * Peter Wirt geht baden, novel


 * Sucht. Therapy report in 10 sessions. Radio play. Directed by Klaus Dieter Pittrich. Prod.: WDR, 1995.
 * Durchhalten . Radio play, produced by: SWR, 1999
 * Dachschaden. Radio play. Prod.: SWR, 2001.
 * In vino veritas. Radio play. Prod.: SDR, 2002
 * Ahnenforschung. Radio play. Prod.: SDR 2003

Awards

 * Literaturstipendium der Stadt München 1991
 * Pro Helvetia commission for the novel Die Birke 1997
 * Gratwanderpreis 1997
 * Würth-Literaturpreis 2000 (together with Friedrun Schütze-Schröder and Hellmut Seiler)
 * Ernst Hoferichter Prize 2002 (together with Georg Maier)
 * Yours and theirs*

Criticism
"The mechanisms of power, adaptation and refusal are described by Fabienne Pakleppa, as if the book were an epilogue to the former workers' and peasants' state; There, too, anyone who proved to be too unruly was thrown out or ostracised. However, as the author was born and grew up in Switzerland, such a short-sighted view can hardly do justice to the book. Die Aufsässigen is about the perversion of power and society; in a very pessimistic way, Pakleppa lets the world perish because of the people, and the people with it. Sexual intercourse is just a frequent and unsuccessful attempt at love... The world has already come to an end. We just haven't realised it yet."