Mirna Funk (born 1981 in Berlin) is a German journalist, author and individualist feminist.
Life
Funk studied philosophy and history at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is currently working as a freelance journalist for works such as Der Freitag and Zeit Magazin and publishes texts on culture, society and the arts. In the summer of 2014, she contributed interviews from Israel to Zeit Magazine and wrote about her life there during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. In her article "Ohne mich" [Without Me][1] Funk wrote about antisemitism and her emigration to Israel.
On 23 July 2015, S. Fischer Verlag published her debut novel Winternähe.[2] Funk received the Uwe Johnson Prize in 2015.[3]
In 2022, she finished her work Who Cares? Von der Freiheit, Frau zu sein, in which she promotes an individualist, sex-positive feminism with several anecdotes of her life.
She is the great-granddaughter of the renowned writer Stephan Hermlin and lives in Berlin and Tel Aviv.[4]
Selected works
- Winternähe, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002419-0
- Wo ist Papa, 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-061319-7
- Zwischen Du und Ich, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, München 2021, ISBN 978-3-00-061319-7
- Who Cares! Von der Freiheit, Frau zu sein. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, München 2022, ISBN 978-3-423-44108-7
References
- ↑ "Antisemitismus: Ohne mich - ZEITmagazin". ZEITmagazin. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ↑ "S. Fischer Verlage - Winternähe (Hardcover)". fischerverlage.de (in German). Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ↑ "Uwe Johnson Förderpreis. Preisträgerin 2015: Mirna Funk für ihren Debütroman "Winternähe"" (in German). Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ↑ Ulrich Gutmair: Mirna Funk über Deutschland - „Es gibt diese Wut“. taz.de, 2015-11-1 (German)