Florian Wacker
Florian Wacker (* 1980 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer .
Life
During and after training to support workers and the study of special education Florian Wacker worked in the disability assistance , the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the youth services .
From 2010 to 2014 he studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . In 2010 he was the second winner of the MDR Literature Prize , in 2013 he won the Young Talent Prize at the Wartholz Literature Prize and received the Limburg Prize in 2015 . In 2017 he was city clerk for children's and youth literature for the city of Mannheim .
In the fall of 2014 his book of short stories Albuquerque was published by the Hamburg publishing house mairisch . In the summer of 2015, the youth book Dahlenberger in the publishing house Jacoby & Stuart followed , which was awarded the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize in the same year and, according to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, is “a breathtaking book about a last summer”. In 2018 his novel Stromland was published by Berlin Verlag .
Florian Wacker lives in Frankfurt am Main and works as a web designer .
Awards
- 2010: 2nd winner of the MDR Literature Prize
- 2011: Workshop grant from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
- 2013: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
- 2013: Newcomer Prize for the Wartholz Literature Prize
- 2013: 3rd winner of the Swabian Literature Prize
- 2014: Working grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
- 2014: Finalist PROSANOVA literature competition
- 2015: Limburg Prize
- 2015: 2nd recipient of the Swabian Literature Prize
- 2015: Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize for Dahlenberger
- 2017: City writer for children's and youth literature in the city of Mannheim
- 2018: Robert Gernhardt Prize for his novel project Dikson
Works
Standalone publications
- Albuquerque. Narratives . mairisch Verlag , Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-938539-32-3
- Dahlenberger . Publishing house Jacoby & Stuart , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-942787-69-7
- Stromland . Berlin Verlag , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8270-1360-6
theatre
- Wolf expectation land . Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-88661-387-8 . Premiere: March 23, 2018 at the Schauspiel Leipzig
Anthologies and literary journals (selection)
- The prince. In: Concepts No. 31, Federal Association of Young Authors e. V., Bonn 2011, ISSN 0179-0676
- The redemption. In: Carolin Beutel, Moritz Malsch (Ed.): Re-covered. New German-language literature. Lettrétage Verlag , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9812062-9-6
- Andy. In: Bella triste 36, summer 2013
- Playa del sol. In: Das Magazin , April 2015
- Transit. In: Alexander Broicher (Ed.): Unhoused. 23 authors on being a stranger. Nicolai Verlag , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89479-712-6
- Taxi drive. In: Florian Kessler (Ed.): Taxi Germany. Stories from the street. Hanser Verlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-25144-1
- Gold. In:] trash [pool 7, 2016
- And before me Eddy Merckx. In: Miromente , 2018
- Mouse. In: SAND 19, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Florian Wacker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Florian Wacker's website
- Florian Wacker on the Piper Verlag website
- Florian Wacker on the website of the publishing house of the authors
- Short biography and information on Florian Wacker's work at Literaturport
- Short biography and information on the work of Florian Wacker at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ MDR Literature Prize 2010. Chronicle of the ARD , May 3, 2010, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Senta Wagner: From the 6th Wartholz literature competition. CulturMag, February 27, 2013, accessed December 9, 2017 .
- ^ Limburg Prize 2015. Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim eV, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Jan Millenet: Florian Wacker is the new Mannheim " fire pen ". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , January 24, 2017, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ 2015 Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize awarded. (No longer available online.) City of Oldenburg , November 9, 2015, archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; Retrieved December 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Judith Scholter: Ass bombs and abysses. Die Zeit , September 28, 2015, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ^ Florian Wacker - Stromland. Berlin Verlag , accessed on December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Julia Wolf and Florian Wacker receive the Robert Gernhardt Prize 2018 - Robert Gernhardt Prize - Literature Prize from WIBank and the State of Hesse . Article dated July 2, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wacker, Florian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |