She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for "[re-exploring] the boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.".

[1][3] She obtained her Abitur from a Protestant gymnasium for girls in 1972, and then studied theology and sociology at the Free University of Berlin.

[4] When she returned to Berlin the following year she began work as a bookkeeper in her brother's company, a job that she kept for decades.

[4] Published in 2006, her novel Consummatus [de] is named for the last saying of Jesus on the cross according to the Gospel of John, "consummatum est [it is completed]".

[4] The book follows the inner monologue of German teacher Ralph Zimmermann and as he sits alone in a Stuttgart café drinking vodka and coffee.

His thoughts circle around death; of both of his parents from an accident, of his girlfriend Johanna (Joey), and of pop icons such as Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison and Edie Sedgwick.

Lines are drawn to Hieronymus, Marc, Thomas Mann and other historical figures related to lions.

[7] In 2013 she received the Georg Büchner Prize for "[re-exploring] the boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.

[8][9] Lewitscharoff received praise for her playful mastery of language, described by the jury of the Berlin Literature Prize in 2010 as "uncommonly dense and original prose works ... that oppose all classifications with their own peculiar amalgam of humor and profundity.

"[1] Literature expert Ulrike Veder puts Lewitscharoff in the magical realism tradition and has further expressed on Lewitscharoff's writing that "It's the constellation of profound knowledge and a writing style that is funny and headstrong and that not only plays with language but actually enriches the language.

"[1] Invited to write about her favourite authors, she wrote the essay Der Dichter als Kind (The poet as a child), including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Gottfried Keller, Karl Philipp Moritz, Clemens Brentano and Bettina Brentano.

Die wissenschaftliche Bestimmung über Geburt und Tod"[12] she criticised what she considered medical mechanisation of reproduction and death.