Georg Klein (writer)

Georg Klein at the Leipzig Book Fair 2010

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Georg Klein, reading in the Literaturhaus Cologne on June 21, 2010 from his "Novel of Our Childhood"

Georg Klein (born March 29, 1953 in Augsburg ) is a German writer .

Career

After graduating from high school and completing his community service, Georg Klein studied German, history and sociology at the universities of Augsburg and Munich. In 1984 his first stories appeared in German literary magazines. His first book publication, the agent novel Libidissi , was celebrated as one of the best German-language books of the year in 1998 and was awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize in 1999 . The jury justified its decision: "The author designs [...] a fantastic, oriental world that captivates the reader by changing perspectives and confronts him with ever new puzzles." Also in 1999 was the volume of short stories Calling the Blind Fish . In 2000 Klein was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In the spring of 2001 the detective story Barbar Rosa was published , followed by two more novels, The Sun Shines Us and Sin Goodness Lightning .

In the novel of our childhood , Georg Klein brings to life a childhood world of the 1960s that was still shaped by the post - war era . On their summer forays through fallow land and subterranean corridors, the children of a newly emerging settlement on the outskirts of Augsburg encounter the unreal world of war-disabled tank drivers. In 2010 he received the Leipzig Book Fair prize in the “ Fiction ” category for the work . He received another nomination in 2018 for his novel Miakro .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Klein lives with his wife, the writer Katrin de Vries , and two sons in the East Frisian town of Bunde .

Awards

Awarded the Lower Saxony State Prize 2012 by the then Prime Minister David McAllister

• 1999: Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau
• 2000: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2010: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair (Category: Fiction )
• 2012: Lower Saxony State Prize
• 2018: Arno Schmidt grant

Works

• Libidissi. Novel. Fest, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8286-0072-7 .
• Invocation of the blind fish. Stories. Fest, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8286-0087-5 .
• Barbarian Rosa. A detective story. Fest, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0134-0 .
• Of the Germans. Stories. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-498-03513-4 .
• The sun is shining on us. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-498-03522-3 .
• Sin goodness lightning. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-498-03532-7 .
• Bad bad media. 2 CD set. supposé, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-932513-77-0 .
• Night with the molester . In: Johannes Ullmaier (Ed.): Shift! Work reports for the end times. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 238-258.
• Novel of our childhood. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-03533-4 .
• The logic of sweetness. Stories. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-03555-6 .
• Trash & Blessings 77 Required texts . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-03566-2 .
• The future of Mars. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-03534-1 .
• Miaco. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-03410-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bachmann Prize 2000
• Georg Klein in the Augsburg Wiki
• Georg Klein in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winner of the Brothers Grimm Prize ( Memento from June 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Bizarre Figurenkabinett , book review by Deutschlandradio Kultur (accessed March 8, 2010)
3. ↑ Georg Klein: Miakro - Fiction. Leipziger Messe, February 8, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2018 . 
4. ^ The Lower Saxony State Prize. ( Memento from September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on: niedersachsen.de