Discipline: Literature

Anna Winger

Discipline: Literature
Region: Berlin, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997

Anna Winger is an American writer who lives in Berlin, Germany. She is creator of the television drama Deutschland 83 and author of the novel This Must Be the Place (Riverhead). Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Winger's radio series for NPR Worldwide, Berlin Stories, is a literary archive about the city. It has been on the air since 2009.

Studios

Nef

Anna Winger worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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