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Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967 in East Berlin〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/281/217/217/129002/design1.html )〕) is a German director and writer. ==Life== Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props and wardrobe supervisor. From 1988 to 1990 Erpenbeck studied theatre at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. After the successful completion of her studies in 1994 (with a production of Béla Bartók's opera ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' in her parish church and in the Kunsthaus Tacheles, she spent some time at first as an assistant director at the opera house in Graz, where in 1997 she did her own productions of Schoenberg's ''Erwartung'', Bartók's ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' and a world premiere of her own piece ''Cats Have Seven Lives''. As a freelance director, she directed in 1998 different opera houses in Germany and Austria, including Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' in Aachen, ''Acis and Galatea'' at the Berlin State Opera and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Zaide'' in Nuremberg/Erlangen. In the 1990s Erpenbeck started a writing career in addition to her directing. She is author of narrative prose and plays: in 1999, ''History of the Old Child'', her debut; in 2001, her collection of stories ''Trinkets''; in 2004, the novella ''Dictionary''; and in February 2008, the novel ''Visitation''. In March 2007, Erpenbeck took over a biweekly column by Nicole Krauss in the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''. Erpenbeck lives in Berlin with her son, born 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jenny Erpenbeck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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