Mirna Funk Explained

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antisemitismus: Ohne mich - ZEITmagazin. 4 December 2014. ZEITmagazin. 14 July 2015.
  2. Web site: S. Fischer Verlage - Winternähe (Hardcover) . German . fischerverlage.de. 14 July 2015.
  3. Web site: Uwe Johnson Förderpreis. Preisträgerin 2015: Mirna Funk für ihren Debütroman "Winternähe". 12 October 2015. de. https://web.archive.org/web/20150912074140/http://www.uwe-johnson-preis.de/forderpreis. 12 September 2015. dead.
  4. Ulrich Gutmair: Mirna Funk über Deutschland - „Es gibt diese Wut“. taz.de, 2015-11-1 (German)