1. Sibylle Lewitscharoff first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, Pong, appeared in 1998.
19 Facts About Sibylle Lewitscharoff
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff's parents were Kristo Lewitscharoff, a gynecologist who had immigrated from Bulgaria, and Marianne, a German woman.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff grew up with a brother, who went on to manage a Berlin-based advertising company that Lewitscharoff later worked under as a bookkeeper.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff's father suffered from depression and committed suicide when she was eleven years old.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff obtained her Abitur from a Protestant gymnasium for girls in 1972 and then studied theology and sociology at the Free University of Berlin.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff moved to Buenos Aires for an extended study trip of one year in 1977.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff graduated in 1982, and studied further in Paris in 1984.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff is obsessed with human perfection, especially that of women, and is portrayed as a misogynist.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff meets a woman called Evmarie whom he eventually marries.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff puts her on a rooftop to shelter two eggs which ultimately become a boy and a girl, who in turn have their own offspring.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff goes on to take a position as a private detective for an upper-class New Yorker who wants a possible murder solved.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff's poetic gesture is a brilliant recitative, a virtuoso rhetoric.
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On 2 March 2014, Sibylle Lewitscharoff gave the traditional Dresdner Rede at the Dresden Staatsschauspiel.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff voiced opposition to artificial insemination and surrogacy referring to the offspring through such methods as "twilight creatures", "half human, half artificial I-don't-know-whats".
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff later said she regretted a couple of phrases, but that her main points stood.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff was married from 1990 to the artist Friedrich Meckseper.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff provided illustrations to a 2013 edition of Pong.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff's religious faith was shaped by her maternal grandmother, who lived with the family when she was a child.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff died in Berlin on 13 May 2023, at age 69.