David Wagner (writer)

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David Wagner at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018

David Wagner (born April 17, 1971 in Andernach ) is a German writer . His work includes novels , short stories , poems , feature pages and prose forms that cannot be clearly assigned to a genre, and has been awarded several literary prizes.

Life

David Wagner grew up in the Rhineland and studied general and comparative literature and art history in Bonn , Paris and Berlin . He spent a long time in Rome , Barcelona and Mexico City and currently lives as a freelance writer in Berlin.

David Wagner became famous for his debut novel Meine Nachtblaue Hose , published in 2000 , in which he describes a childhood in the Rhineland in the seventies and eighties of the 20th century. This was followed by a volume of short stories ( Was alles sucht , 2002) as well as a volume of poetry and numerous short stories, which he published in the series “ Schönerlesen” by the independent publisher SuKuLTuR . From 1999 to 2001 Wagner wrote feature articles for the Berlin pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and in 2002 and 2003 a column for Die Zeit .

In 2009 the novel Vier Äpfel , which was on the longlist for the German Book Prize , and the novel Spricht das Kind were published . Wagner suffers from autoimmune hepatitis , which made him dependent on a liver transplant . He processes this experience in the book Leben , which consists of 277 numbered miniatures and which received the Leipzig Book Fair 2013 prize. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In the spring semester of 2014, Wagner was the first to hold the Friedrich Dürrenmatt visiting professorship for world literature at the University of Bern .

Wagner has a daughter.

Works

David Wagner receives the Leipzig Book Fair 2013 (fiction) prize from Sabine von Schorlemer , State Minister for Science and Art of the Free State of Saxony.
  • My midnight blue pants. Novel. Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • In Berlin. Feature sections. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2001.
  • What is missing - twelve stories. Piper, Munich 2002.
  • White Night. Narrative. Sukultur, Berlin 2004. (Series " Beautiful Reading ", No. 24.)
  • The art shooter was one of the few artists. Poems. Sukultur, Berlin 2005. (Series “Beautiful Reading”, No. 37.)
  • Endive. Sukultur, Berlin 2007. (“Beautiful Reading” series, No. 62.)
  • I am the man. She is the woman. Sukultur, Berlin 2007. (“Beautiful Reading” series, No. 70.)
  • Heroes. Sukultur, Berlin 2008 (“Beautiful Reading” series, No. 79.)
  • The child speaks. Droschl Verlag, Graz / Vienna 2009.
  • For new life. Sukultur, Berlin 2009 (“Beautiful Reading” series, No. 85.)
  • Four apples. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2009.
  • What color is Berlin. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940426-96-3 .
  • When the children slept. Sukultur, Berlin 2011 (“Beautiful Reading” series, No. 108.)
  • Life. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-07371-8 .
  • Mauer Park. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943167-41-2 .
  • Over and over. Two German childhoods , together with Jochen Schmidt . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-498-06055-8 .
  • Falling in love helps. About books and series. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3957321572 .
  • A room in the hotel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, 2016, ISBN 978-3498073732 .
  • Romania. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95732-306-4 .
  • The forgetful giant. Rowohlt, Hamburg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-07385-5 .

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. Information on Wagner's visiting professorship on the website of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  2. David Wagner: Helmut Kohl, my favorite enemy. In: welt.de . June 17, 2017, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. boersenblatt.net of July 23, 2014 ( Memento of October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. China Daily of December 31, 2014 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : David Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files