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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Katja Behrens
- Katja Behrens (born Katja Oswald; 18 December 1942) is a German author and translator of Jewish descent. The daughter of Josef Oswald, a photographer, and Leni Oswald, an author and journalist.
- With her mother and grandmother, she went into hiding in the home of a Catholic priest in Austria during World War II and returned to Germany after the war.
- Behrens began working as a translator in 1960, translating works by authors such as William S.
- Burroughs, Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen into German.
- She lived in Israel from 1968 to 1970.
- From 1973 to 1978, she was a reader for publisher Luchterhand Literaturverlag, moving to Darmstadt.
- Behrens has travelled to India, north Africa, the United States and South America.
- She is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and of the German author's association Verband deutscher Schriftsteller.Behrens has been a visiting professor at Washington University in St.
- Louis and at Dartmouth College.She has been awarded the Förderpreis by the Festival of German-Language Literature, the Märkisches Stipendium für Literatur, the Thaddäus-Troll-Preis, the stipend from the Villa Massimo, the Mainzer Stadtschreiber by the ZDF and the city of Mainz, the George-Konell-Preis and recognition by the Deutsche Schillerstiftung.In her writings, she explores the limitations imposed on Jewish women in Germany while accepting that life elsewhere might not be any better.
- While her literary universe is centred on Germany, she extends her observations to the world at large.
- Her work also draws on her own experiences to explore the relationships between women of different generations.She married Peter Behrens in 1960.
- The couple had a daughter but later divorced in 1971.
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