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b. 1982, writer & photographer
(c) Rabea Edel
Awards & Residencies:
2022
Silver MEdal - Deutscher Fotobuchpreis »A Second Beating HEart«
Vonovia Award, Shorlist (»A Second beating heart«)
Belfast Photofestival, Shortlist (»A Second Beating Heart«)
Arbeitsstipendium des MWK Niedersachsen für die Arbeit an »Portrait meiner Mutter mit Geistern«
Stiftung Buchkunst, Longlist (»A Second Beating Heart«)
2021
INITIAL – Arbeitsstipendium der Akademie der Künste
2018
Arbeitsstipendium im Alfred-Döblin-Haus, Akademie der Künste
2016
Artist in Residency in Novo mesto/Goethe Institut Ljubljana, Slovenien
Arbeitsstipendium Literatur des Landes Niedersachsen
2015
Artist in Residency in Beijing, China. Goethe-Institut Peking (in Kooperation mit Red Gate Residency)
Recherche-Stipendium des Berliner Senats
2014
Arbeitsstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
2012
Stipendiatin des Künstlerhauses Edenkoben
2009
Stipendiatin in der Casa Baldi, Villa Massimo/ Deutsche Akademie Rom
2007
Deutsch-Israelische-Literaturtage der Böll-Stiftung in Tel Aviv
Nicolas-Born-Förderpreis für »Das Wasser, in dem wir schlafen«
2006
Kunstpreis Lotto Brandenburg für »Das Wasser, in dem wir schlafen«
CLIENTS
Berliner Festspiele, ilb - Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, Crespo Foundation, C.H.Beck Verlag, Berlin Verlag, Randomhouse/ Bertelsmann, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Aufbau Verlag, Blumenbar Verlag, THE GERMANS, Die Welt, Die Zeit, Tagesspiegel, L'Officel homme, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Akademie der Künste, Bayrische Akademie des Schreibens, Avallain, Chrismon Magazin, Brigitte Magazin e.a.
Rabea Edel, born in Bremerhaven, is a novelist and artist photographer.
After studying literature in Siena and Rome with a M.A. degree, she studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie Berlin under Sven Marquardt, Prof.Linn Schröder and Sibylle Fendt and graduated in 2021.
Previously her debut novel »The Water We Sleep In« (2006), as well as her second novel »A Dark Moment« (2011) were published by Luchterhand Literaturverlag and received several awards. In spring 2021 her radio play »Seeing Her Ghosts - Ihre Geister Sehen« was premiered at Deutschlandfunk Kultur with Sandra Hüller and awarded with the prestigious ARD Hörspielpreis (Public-Voting-Award). In 2025 her third novel »Portrait of my Mother with Ghosts« will be published by C.H.Beck.
She was editor-in-chief of the art and society magazine "REVUE - Magazine for the Next Society" and Co-Founder of "Urban Journalism" an inter-active salon and networking format.
Being mainly a photographer and writer, but also a text based artist, she does performances, cooperative projects with other artists and organizes events within the cultural sector of Berlin and abroad.
Rabea Edel is member of the »Treffen Junger Autor*innen« -Jury (Berliner Festspiele) and regularly teaches art- and writing workshops.
Contact: info at rabeaedel dot com
For any cooperations, readings, workshops or other projects please write me an email or use the contact form below.
You can also get in touch with my agency Landwehr&Cie info@landwehr-cie.de
Or with my publisher: tanja.warter@beck.de
Thank you!