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Sibylle Berg was born in Weimar, lived with a foster family and in Israel, Germany and various countries that no longer exist. She has Swiss and German citizenship. Berg briefly studied oceanography in Hamburg until she decided to write books - she was active in judo, kung fu and GST diving, can milk, drive a tractor and speaks several foreign languages moderately well. Sibylle Berg has no hobbies, does not believe in systems and principles, she never drinks on principle, does not take drugs, does not smoke and does not eat meat. Sibylle Berg has been an unsuccessful data protection campaigner for years and says: "Privacy means privacy because it is private. Sibylle Berg is a supporter of the LGTBQ movement. To date, she has published 32 theatre plays, 18 novels, numerous anthologies and radio plays. Her works have been translated into 34 languages. For her novel "GRM - Brainfuck", Sibylle Berg was awarded the Swiss Book Prize, among others. In 2020, she received the Grand Prix Literature, Switzerland's highest honour for literary creation, for her work. Berg was elected to the European Parliament together with Martin Sonneborn in the 2024 European elections. She is now an EU parliamentarian and is trying, within very limited possibilities, to inform about the upcoming surveillance measures, to give scientists a stage, to fight poverty and discrimination. And to explain her vision of a new social system after the peaceful abolition of capitalism.
Awards
2008 - Wolfgang Koeppen Prize
2009 - Invitation to the Mühlheimer Theatertage
2010 - Culture Prize of the Canton of Zurich
2010 - Long List German Book Prize
2012 - Nomination Swiss Book Prize (2012)
2012 - Culture Prize of the City of Zurich
2014 - Es sagt mir nichts. Best play of the year elected by "Theater Heute"
2016 - Friedrich Luft Prize for the play "Und dann kam Mirna"
2016 - Radio play award of the war-blind for "Und jetzt: Die Welt"
2016 - Audience Award of the Mülheim Festival "Stücke - 2016" for "Und dann kam Mirna"
2016 - Else-Lasker-Schüler Drama Prize
2019 - Kassler literature prize for grotesque humor
2019 - Thuringian Literature Prize
2019 - Nestroy Theater Prize
2019 - Swiss Book Prize for the novel "GRM - Brainfuck"
2020 - Grand Prix Literature
2020 - Berthold Brecht Prize
2020 - Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis
2021 - "Play of the Year" in Theater heute's critics poll: And surely the world has disappeared with me
2022- Dreitannen Literaturpreis