Marie-Luise Scherer | |
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Born | |
Died | 17 December 2022 | (aged 84)
Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | Writer Journalist |
Marie-Luise Scherer (15 October 1938 – 17 December 2022) was a German writer and journalist.
Scherer began her career as a reporter for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and later wrote for Berliner Morgenpost and Die Zeit. She was a journalist at Der Spiegel from 1974 to 1998, where she became known for her literary reports. More recently, she wrote autobiographical pieces for Sinn und Form, a bimonthly literature journal of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. [1]
In her writing, Scherer wrote a form she characterized as "syllable work", explaining that "two good sentences in one day are lucky". [2] For more than 20 years, she wrote a maximum of two reports a year for Der Spiegel. [3]
In 2012, Scherer received the Kunstpreis des Saarlandes for literature. [4] Her works have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. She lived in Damnatz [5] and died on 17 December 2022, at the age of 84. [6]