Iris Wolff

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Iris Wolff (2020)

Martina Iris Wolff (born July 28, 1977 in Sibiu / Transylvania ) is a German writer .

life and work

Iris Wolff grew up in Sibiu and in Semlak / Banat .

In 1985 she emigrated to Germany with her family. She studied German language and literature, religious studies and graphics and painting at the Philipps University of Marburg .

From 2003 to 2013 she worked at the German Literature Archive in Marbach and lectured on art education. From November 2013 to March 2018 she was the coordinator of the Network for Cultural Education in Freiburg.

Iris Wolff, who is a member of the International Exile PEN, primarily writes short stories and novels. In 2012 she made her debut with the novel Halber Stein at Otto Müller Verlag (Salzburg).

In 2013 and 2015 she was a juror for the school writing competition Stiftung Kinderland Baden-Württemberg. In 2018 she gave the literary opening lecture of the International Library Congress in Graz: Poetry as optics that shapes the world. Why reading overcomes boundaries .

Iris Wolff lives in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Single track

Anthologies and journals (selection)

  • About the width of a razor. Schiller's work on the Piccolomini manuscript . In: Under Parnassus . The Schiller National Museum, Stuttgart 2009.
  • Literature touches. Cooperation between school and museum using the example of the Marbach literature school LINA . Literature museum as a place of learning. Contributions to cultural education, Göttingen 2011.
  • Child scenes. Writing and remembering with Walter Benjamin . In: German lessons . Issue 6, 65th year 2012.
  • Leaf fall. Short story. In: Edition ErLesen . Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2013.
  • House with a ladder to heaven. Short story. In: reflections. Multicultural Banat , Regensburg 2015.
  • Slow days. Short story. In: reflections. Literatures in times of change , Regensburg 2015.
  • Leaf fall . Short story. Sibiu. In: facts, pictures, words . Sibiu 2017.
  • Dragon house . Short story. In: Apartment block blues with a shepherd's flute. Tell Romania anew . Berlin 2018.
  • A third room. Reading tour in Romania . In: Literature & Criticism . No. 525/626, 2018.

Exhibitions Lectures (selection)

  • Ice worlds on the Lahn . Photo exhibition. Cars, Marburg 2006.
  • Literary writing, calligraphy and painting. Rotenfels Castle Academy, Gaggenau 2007.
  • Christian Jankowski . Video workshop. Art Museum, Stuttgart 2008/09.
  • Art to Coal . Exhibition. EnBW power plant, Affaltrach 2009.
  • Fit for Abitur in five days. Kafka's trial and tribe of Agnes. Lecture. Baden-Baden 2010–2016.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Iris Wolff receives Alpha 2018 Literature Prize . Article dated October 23, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Support group of German writers in Baden-Württemberg: Scholarship holders 2019 . Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ Thaddäus Troll Prize 2019 to Iris Wolff. In: omvs.at. October 29, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Reinhold Schneider Prize 2020
  5. ↑ The nominated titles for the German Book Prize 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Iris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Martina Iris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu , Transylvania