Gunther Geltinger

Gunther Geltinger (* 1974 in Erlenbach am Main ) is a German writer .

Gunther Geltinger at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2013

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Gunther Geltinger studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and as a postgraduate at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . He has lived there since then.

In 2011 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2011 at the invitation of Alain Claude Sulzer . His debut novel Mensch Engel has been translated into various languages ​​and also published as a paperback . In 2013, Moor , his second novel, appeared. In this, Geltinger describes the love affair between a depressed mother and her stuttering son. Der Spiegel described the work as "sophisticated literature in the good old Suhrkamp tradition"

Awards (selection)

• 2004: Literature Prize of the Gay Bookshops for Life 200 Meters in: Im Paradies (story)
• 2007: Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship from the City of Cologne
• 2008: Nomination for the aspekte literature prize
• 2011 participation in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2011: Heinrich Heine scholarship holder from the city of Lüneburg
• 2011: Inselschreiber
• 2013: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 2015: Residence grant from the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg
• 2015: August Graf von Platen Prize

Works

• Human angel. Schöffling & Co. , 2008, ISBN 978-3-89561-366-1 .
  • Mens angel. Anthos , Amsterdam, 2010, ISBN 978-90-414-1427-4 .
  • Hombre Ángel. Editorial Pre-Textos, 2012, ISBN 978-8415297529 .
• Moor. Novel. Suhrkamp , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42393-6 .
• Petrol. Novel. Suhrkamp , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3518428597

Web links

Commons : Gunther Geltinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gunther Geltinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Gunther Geltinger at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Gunther Geltinger at perlentaucher.de
• Gunther Geltinger at the Bachmann Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coping with life in writing. Deutschlandfunk
2. ↑ Mirror of the soul: The new novel by Gunther Geltinger. 3sat culture time .
3. ↑ Der Spiegel, No. 2., January 6, 2014, p. 94.
4. ↑ The authors of the Bachmann Prize 2011: Gunther Geltinger 3sat
5. ↑ Gunther Geltinger is the new island writer on Sylt. Börsenblatt
6. ↑ The stork brought all the children, except Dion, who made the moor