Steffen Kopetzky

Steffen Kopetzky (born January 26, 1971 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ) is a German writer who is involved in local politics .

life and work

Steffen Kopetzky studied philosophy and romance languages in Munich , Paris and Berlin . Since 1993 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin for a few years before returning to his birthplace in Hallertau (between Munich and Ingolstadt). He is married and has two children.

Steffen Kopetzky, who is a member of the PEN Center Germany , writes novels , radio plays , radio features and plays . While the first two novels show Kopetzky's enormous reading in a playful form, Grand Tour is a sprawling, postmodern narrative in which the author u. a. processed personal experience as a sleeper car attendant and as a Baldreit scholarship holder in Baden-Baden.

From 2002 to 2008 he was artistic director of the Bonn Biennale.

Since 2007 Steffen Kopetzky has been in the local politics of Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm committed. In the local elections in 2008 he was elected to the city council as a non-party on the list of the SPD and works there as a cultural advisor.

Single track

• An improper trip. Hand encyclopedia of the basic problems of Europe at the end of the 20th century . Novel. Verlag Volk & Welt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-353-01087-4 .
• Burglary and madness . Novel. Verlag Volk & Welt, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-353-01121-8 .
• Reliable report on insomnia . Baldreit Edition, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-9806836-4-8 .
• Grand Tour or The Night of the Great Complication . Novel. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-8218-0897-7 .
• Lost, found . Stories. btb-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-75139-6 .
• Morocco. Diary of a trip . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-73415-3 .
• The last thief . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-87274-2 .
• Risk . Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-93991-0 .
• Propaganda . Novel. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0064-9 .

radio play

• 1995: The discovery of the pyramids . Director: Ulrich Simontowitz . Dummy head radio play. SFB 1995.

Machining

• Blank verses for Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz . Romantic opera in three acts . Libretto: Johann Friedrich Kind .

Awards

• 1996: Kurt Magnus Prize
• 1997: Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 1999: Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize
• 2000: Caroline Schlegel Prize (journalism / arts section)
• 2001: Baldreit grant from the city of Baden-Baden
• 2012: Literature grant from the Free State of Bavaria

Web links

• Literature by and about Steffen Kopetzky in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.steffen-kopetzky.de
• City councilor Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
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