Angelika Overath

Angelika Overath
Overath at Frankfurt Book Fair, 2018
Born1957 (age 68–69)
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
LanguageRomansh
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
SpouseManfred Koch
Children3

Angelika Overath (born 17 July 1957 in Karlsruhe) is a German author and journalist.

Overath studied German literature, history, Italian Studies, and cultural studies at the University of Tübingen and wrote a PhD-thesis in 1986 about the colour blue in modern literature.

She regularly works as Writer in Residence for the German Section in the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, and at Queen Mary's College, London. She also teaches creative writing for the Swiss Hyperwerk and has founded the Schreibschule Sent which offers seminars in creative writing both in German and Romansch.

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