Eva Weissweiler
German non-fiction writer and writer
Eva-Ruth Weissweiler (born 14 February 1951 in Mönchengladbach) is a German writer, musicologist and non fiction writer.
Life
Weissweiler entered the Mönchengladbach State Girls' Grammar School in 1961, where she graduated in 1969 (Abitur). She comes from a music-loving merchant family and has two older brothers.
In addition to school lessons, she attended the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. She was twice State winner in the Jugend musiziert competition on the concert of alto recorder and at the age of 14 she made concert tours with this instrument as a soloist, among others to England. After short piano studies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, she enrolled in the winter semester 1969/70 to study musicology, German and Islamic studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where she received her doctorate in 1976. Her dissertation was published under her married name at the time, Eva Perkuhn, which she took again shortly before the birth of her first child, to take up her maiden name, Weissweiler, again. After her studies she worked as a radio editor and freelance writer.
Weissweiler is the author of biographies, novels, short stories, radio features and documentaries. She has written articles for almost all German-language stations and texts for the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the Süddeutsche, Emma and the Kölner Stadtanzeiger.
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