Jörg Matheis

This article is about the writer. For the former athlete see Jörg Mattheis .

Jörg Matheis (* 1970 in Altenglan -Mühlbach, Pfalz ) is a German writer .

Life

Jörg Matheis completed until 1994, a study of German literature , philosophy and political science at the University of Mainz . He published narrative and lyric texts in magazines and anthologies . In 2002 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt ; In 2003 his first volume of stories ( mono ) was published. Andreas Dorschel wrote about the book : "Matheis does not want to expose either the provincial world or the big city. He wants to show them how they are. In doing so, he manages to put moods and atmospheres into words. He has a feeling especially for that Above is the undercurrent of violence in everyday life, between the sexes and between the generations, before which the difference between the province and the big city is irrelevant. "

In March 2008, Matheis' debut novel, A Photo by Mila was published ; the novel deals with the Ramstein flight conference in which 70 people died. Matheis, who works in the marketing department of a Wiesbaden bank , now lives in Ingelheim .

Works

• Mono , Munich 2003
• A photo by Mila , Munich 2008

Scattered publications

• Triangle , in: BELLA triste No. 8, Hildesheim 2004

Awards (selection)

• 1998: Sponsorship award for the Georg K. Glaser Prize
• 2000: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis
• 2001: Prize of the Eifel Literature Festival
• 2003: Special jury award for the Rhineland-Palatinate Book of the Year for Mono
• 2003: Hermann Lenz Scholarship
• 2004: Bremen Literature Prize
• 2005: Advancement award for the Pfalzpreis für Literatur
• 2009: Koblenz Literature Prize
• 2009: Book of the year for a photo by Mila
• 2009: Georg K. Glaser Prize

Remarks

1. ↑ Andreas Dorschel , 'In Resopalmanövern', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 154 (July 8, 2003), p. 16.

Web links

• Poetry world: Jörg Matheis
• Bachmann Prize: Jörg Matheis
• Jörg Matheis - FAZ
• Literary March: Jörg Matheis