Mirna Funk
{{Short description|German writer and journalist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox writer
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| name = Mirna Funk
| image = File:Mirna Funk 2020 (1).jpg
| caption = Mirna Funk (2020)
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1981|03|02}}
| birth_place = East Berlin (modern Pankow)
| occupation = Writer
Journalist
| language = German
| education = Philosophy
History
| alma_mater = Humboldt University of Berlin
| period = 21st century literature
| genre = Novel
Political essay
| movement = Contemporary literature
Individualist feminism
Liberal Zionism
| notable_works = Winternähe (2015)
Who Cares! Von der Freiheit, Frau zu sein (2022)
| awards = Uwe Johnson Prize 2015
Aspekte-Literaturpreis 2015
| website = [https://mirnafunk.com/ mirnafunk.com/]
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Mirna Funk (born 2 March 1981 in East 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]{{cite web|url=http://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2014/50/antisemitismus-deutschland-mirna-funk|title=Antisemitismus: Ohne mich – ZEITmagazin|date=4 December 2014|work=ZEITmagazin|accessdate=14 July 2015}} Funk wrote about antisemitism and her emigration to Israel.
On 23 July 2015, S. Fischer Verlag published her debut novel Winternähe.{{cite web|url=http://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/winternaehe/9783100024190|title=S. Fischer Verlage – Winternähe (Hardcover) |language=German |work=fischerverlage.de|accessdate=14 July 2015}} Funk received the Uwe Johnson Prize in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.uwe-johnson-preis.de/forderpreis|title=Uwe Johnson Förderpreis. Preisträgerin 2015: Mirna Funk für ihren Debütroman "Winternähe"|accessdate=12 October 2015|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912074140/http://www.uwe-johnson-preis.de/forderpreis|archive-date=12 September 2015|url-status=dead}}
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.Ulrich Gutmair: [https://taz.de/Mirna-Funk-ueber-Deutschland/!5240578/ Mirna Funk über Deutschland - „Es gibt diese Wut“]. taz.de, 2015-11-1 (German)
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
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Category:21st-century German writers
Category:Individualist feminists
Category:Sex-positive feminists