Kathrin Passig
Kathrin Passig is a German author.
Biography
Passig was born in 1970 in Deggendorf, a small town in Lower Bavaria. She is editor and programmer of the blog "Riesenmaschine" which received the Grimme Online Award 2006, awarded by the renowned Adolf-Grimme-Institut. The same year, her short story "Sie befinden sich hier" got her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. One of her most successful books is "Lexikon des Unwissens – Worauf es bisher keine Antwort gibt" published by Rowohlt in 2007.She also works as a translator, among her translations are works by William Leonard Marshall, Bob Dylan, Jacob Weisberg, and Harlan Coben.
Works
- with Ira Strübel: Die Wahl der Qual
- Sie befinden sich hier
- with Holm Friebe: Das nächste große Ding
- with Aleks Scholz: Lexikon des Unwissens
- with Ira Strübel: Strübel & Passig. Gesammelte Kolumnen
- with Sascha Lobo: Dinge geregelt kriegen – ohne einen Funken Selbstdisziplin
- with Aleks Scholz: Verirren. Eine Anleitung für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene
- with Aleks Scholz and Kai Schreiber: Das neue Lexikon des Unwissens.
- with Sascha Lobo: Internet – Segen oder Fluch
- with Johannes Jander: ''Weniger schlecht programmieren''