Elisabeth Pape
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Elisabeth Pape
Elisabeth Pape was born in 1995 as the daughter of a Ukrainian migrant mother. She studied theatre and literary studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and then dramatic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. She was awarded the Kleist Prize for Emerging Playwrights in 2023 and received the Leonhard Frank Scholarship in 2023, which is awarded by the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Her plays have premiered at venues such as Staatstheater Augsburg, Theater Koblenz and Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Halbe Portion is her debut novel.
Elisabeth Pape was born in 1995 as the daughter of a Ukrainian migrant mother. She studied theatre and literary studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and then dramatic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. She was awarded the Kleist Prize for Emerging Playwrights in 2023 and received the Leonhard Frank Scholarship in 2023, which is awarded by the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Her plays have premiered at venues such as Staatstheater Augsburg, Theater Koblenz and Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Halbe Portion is her debut novel.
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Year of Publication: 2025
Elisabeth PapeYear of Publication: 2025
Half Serving
Born in Germany to a Ukrainian single mother and raised in a household where money was scarce and love was measured in calories, grades, and the numbers on a scale, the protagonist carries these inherited patterns of control and deprivation into adulthood.
Now a writer who hasn’t written a single line in months, she leads a precarious existence in Berlin. She moves from sublet to...
Now a writer who hasn’t written a single line in months, she leads a precarious existence in Berlin. She moves from sublet to...
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