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
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She’s eating again. That wasn’t always the case. Having grown up in poverty, just her and her obsessively thin mother, who migrated to Berlin from Ukraine, her future seemed immutable. Now, in her late twenties, she has things more or less under control. Sure, she goes jogging a lot, okay, she counts every calorie, but (almost) every morning, noon, and night, she eats some kind of food. Even if...