Zoë Beck
Zoë Beck (* 12 March 1975 as Henrike Heiland in Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district[1]) is a German writer, publisher, translator, dialogue book author and dubbing director. She has one multiple awards for her books and translations.
Life
At the age of three she began to play the piano. Numerous performances and multiple awards at competitions followed. After graduating from high school she studied German and English literature in Giessen, Bonn and Durham as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.[2] She completed her studies with a master's thesis on the crime writer Elizabeth George. She then worked as an editor and TV producer for the Kirch Group. Since 2004 she has been working as a freelance author and lives in Berlin.
Beck first wrote screenplays, including the Christmas film "In der Weihnachtsbäckerei" (In the Christmas Bakery) with Rolf Zuckowski for ZDF children's television,[3] various episodes of Tabaluga tivi, Nelly Net(t) and the German version of the sitcom Disney's Kurze Pause for the Disney Channel. Since 2006 she has been publishing mainly prose as a writer.
After surviving cancer in 2007 she changed her name to Zoë Beck.[4][5]
Together with Jan Karsten Beck founded the literary publishing house CulturBooks in 2013.[6][7] The publishing house emerged from the online feuilleton Culturmag.[8]
In addition to her writing, Zoë Beck works as a literary translator and dubbing director for film and television (including Hackerville, Dietland, The Terror, The Mist, Fear the Walking Dead, Orange Is The New Black, Followers).[9][10] From September 2013 to August 2014, she was the columnist for the SWR2 programme LiteraturEN, a radio column that is awarded to a different contemporary author each year, and subsequently wrote literary reviews for the station.[11]
Zoë Beck acts as their German voice on reading tours of international authors, for example for Denise Mina, Val McDermid, Louise Welsh and Carl Nixon. She is on the board of directors of Litprom,[12] a member of the PEN Centre Germany,[13] co-founder of the feminist writers' network "Herland"[14] and co-initiator of the action alliance #verlagegegenrechts.[15] At the Leipzig Book Fair 2018 and 2019, she organised, among other things, the event series "Die Gedanken sind bunt".[16] Beck has been a member of the jury for the Kurt Tucholsky Prize since 2018.[17]
Awards
- 2010 Friedrich-Glauser-Preis[18]
- 2011 Friedrich-Glauser-Preis, Nomination[19]
- 2012 September, KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste[20]
- 2013 Goldene Leslie, Nomination[21]
- 2014 January, February, March, KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste[22]
- 2014 Radio-Bremen-Krimipreis[23]
- 2014 Virenschleuder-Preis, Marketingpreis der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Kategorie „Persönlichkeit“[24]
- 2014 25 Frauen für die digitale Zukunft[25]
- 2015 March, April, May, June KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste[26][27][28][29]
- 2015 Buchkultur: Die besten Krimis der Saison Top 10[30]
- 2016 Deutscher Krimi Preis, Category „National“, 3. Platz[31]
- 2017 July, August Krimibestenliste der FAS/Deutschlandfunk Kultur[32]
- 2017 Internationaler Literaturpreis des Haus der Kulturen der Welt und der Stiftung Elementarteilchen, Nomination[33]
- 2018 Goldene Auguste, Award for her services to women's crime literature[34]
- 2018 Wiesbadener Krimistipendium 2019[35]
- 2019 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Translation to Science Fiction for Pippa Goldschmidt, "Von der Notwendigkeit, den Weltraum ordnen", nomination[36]
References
- ^ https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/lesezeichen/lesezeichen-gespraech-304.html
- ^ "90 Jahre, 90 Köpfe" (in German). Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ^ "ZDF Jahrbuch 2007 - Einzelfilme". Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ Archived (Date missing) at br.de (Error: unknown archive URL)
- ^ http://denkzeiten.com/2013/08/31/zoe-beck-nachgefragt/
- ^ E-Book-Verlag Culturbooks
- ^ Andreas Platthaus (2014-03-16). "Wir gegen das Monopol". FAZ.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
- ^ Online-Feuilleton CULturMAG
- ^ https://zoebeck.wordpress.com/ubersetzungen/
- ^ Peter Körte (2017-08-08), "Krimi „Die Lieferantin": Wenn die Drogen mit der Drohne kommen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ISSN 0174-4909, retrieved 2017-08-24
- ^ SWR2 LiteraturEN
- ^ "Über Uns / LitProm". Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ http://www.pen-deutschland.de/de/pen-zentrum-deutschland/mitglieder/
- ^ "über uns", Herland, 2016-02-06, retrieved 2017-10-26
- ^ "Ein Zeichen gegen rechte Verlage auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017 – Kunst Mag". Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "Zoë Beck | herzkampf.de", herzkampf.de, retrieved 2018-08-22
- ^ "Die Jury". Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft (in German). 2016-05-28. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
- ^ Friedrich-Glauser-Preise an Zoran Drvenkar, Andreas Föhr und Zoe Beck / Hansjörg-Martin-Preis für Marlene Röder
- ^ Nominierte der Glauser-Preise 2011 stehen fest / Ehrenglauser für Jürgen Alberts
- ^ Tobias Gohlis, [online "KrimiZeit-Bestenliste: Die zehn besten Krimis im September 2012"], Die Zeit, no. 37/2012
{{citation}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ [[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kulturland.rlp.de/startseite/newssingle/archive/2013/november/article/goldene-leslie-2013-an-rolf-lappert-fuer-pampa-blues dead link] http://www.kulturland.rlp.de/startseite/newssingle/archive/2013/november/article/goldene-leslie-2013-an-rolf-lappert-fuer-pampa-blues@1@2Vorlage:Toter+Link/www.kulturland.rlp.de (Seite+nicht+mehr+abrufbar,+Suche+in+Webarchiven) Datei:Pictogram+voting+info.svg Info:+Der+Link+wurde+automatisch+als+defekt+markiert.+Bitte+prüfe+den+Link+gemäß+Anleitung+und+entferne+dann+diesen+Hinweis.+]
- ^ Die KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste März – hier zum Ausdrucken
- ^ Archived (Date missing) at radiobremen.de (Error: unknown archive URL)
- ^ http://virenschleuderpreis.de/preistraeger/
- ^ https://editionf.com/25-frauen-fuer-digitale-zukunft
- ^ Tobias Gohlis, [online "Krimi-Bestenliste: Die zehn besten Krimis im März 2015"], Die Zeit, no. 10/2015
{{citation}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Tobias Gohlis, [online "Krimi-Bestenliste: Die zehn besten Krimis im April 2015"], Die Zeit, no. 14/2015
{{citation}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Tobias Gohlis, [online "Krimi-Bestenliste: Die zehn besten Krimis im Mai 2015"], Die Zeit, no. 19/2015
{{citation}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Tobias Gohlis, [online "Krimi-Bestenliste: Die zehn besten Krimis im Juni 2015"], Die Zeit, no. 24/2015
{{citation}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ http://www.buchkultur.net/archiv/pdf/Buchkultur_160A.pdf
- ^ http://www.krimilexikon.de/dkp/16.html
- ^ "Krimibestenliste im August: Flieg, kleine Drohne, flieg!", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2017-07-02, ISSN 0174-4909, retrieved 2017-08-08
- ^ Haus der Kulturen der Welt. "Reclaim Your Fictions. Fest der Shortlist & Preisverleihung". Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ^ KrimmiautorInnen. "Verleihung der goldenen Auguste - Mörderische Schwestern" (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ^ "Krimi-Stipendium 2019 | Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden" (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ^ "KLP 2019 Beste Übersetzung". Retrieved 2019-04-02.