Florian Wacker

Florian Wacker, Erlanger Poetenfest 2015

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

1. ↑ MDR Literature Prize 2010. Chronicle of the ARD , May 3, 2010, accessed on December 9, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Senta Wagner: From the 6th Wartholz literature competition. CulturMag, February 27, 2013, accessed December 9, 2017 . 
3. ^ Limburg Prize 2015. Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim eV, accessed on December 9, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Jan Millenet: Florian Wacker is the new Mannheim " fire pen ". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , January 24, 2017, accessed on December 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ 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.  
6. ↑ Judith Scholter: Ass bombs and abysses. Die Zeit , September 28, 2015, accessed on December 9, 2017 . 
7. ^ Florian Wacker - Stromland. Berlin Verlag , accessed on December 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ 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.