Anke Elsner

Anke Elsner studied German, sociology and journalism at the University of Münster, completing her degree with a master’s qualification in 1985. She subsequently carried out a two-year research assignment at the Bocholt City Archive. From 2002, she taught German as a foreign language at the Münster adult education centre; in 2013, she began working as an author. Her texts have appeared in more than 40 publications in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Elsner won first prizes in several writing competitions, including the Göllheim Short Story Competition (2017), Erfurter Federlesen (2019) and the Mölltaler Schreibader (2019). She also published her own anthology of short crime fiction.