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 )

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