Nina Bußmann
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Nina Bußmann

Nina Bußmann, born in Frankfurt/Main in 1980, studied General and Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Berlin and Warsaw and currently lives in Berlin. She has received various awards for her work, including the 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2011 for an excerpt from her debut novel Große Ferien.

Nina Bußmann, born in Frankfurt/Main in 1980, studied General and Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Berlin and Warsaw and currently lives in Berlin. She has received various awards for her work, including the 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2011 for an excerpt from her debut novel Große Ferien.


PUBLICATIONS

Three Weeks in August
Year of Publication: 2025
Nina BußmannYear of Publication: 2025

A remote holiday house on the French Atlantic coast. This is where Elena wants to spend three relaxing weeks with her children. Her husband has stayed behind in Germany – their marriage has...

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Thicket
Year of Publication: 2020
Nina BußmannYear of Publication: 2020

Only a very few people manage to get sober on their own. If you want to stop drinking, you should connect with a group. Addict Ruth knows phrases like these, but she doesn’t believe in them. She manages best on her own. However, when she wakes up in hospital after a heavy fall, she needs support and turns to a fellow patient, Katja.


This happens to Katja all the time; people asking...

Earth’s Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten
Year of Publication: 2017
Nina BußmannYear of Publication: 2017

On a clear day in the Caribbean a propeller plane with the 32-year-old seismologist Nelly on board suddenly disappears from the radar. After months of searching, pieces of wreckage are found in the jungles of Nicaragua. But of Nelly not a trace remains. At home in Frankfurt, her girlfriend cannot get over her disappearance. She travels to Managua, settles into Nelly’s old room, reads the notes...

Long Vacation
Year of Publication: 2012
Nina BußmannYear of Publication: 2012
It's been months since Schramm quit teaching; they say something happened between him and one of his students. His colleagues knew all along, and used to talk about him behind his back – he who was also so strait-laced.


And indeed, over time Schramm had grown porous in his dealings with the boy, whose radicalness toward himself seemed so similar to his own, and suddenly Schramm heard him...

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