Jan Michaelis (Author)

Jan Albert Michaelis (* 1968 in Heilbronn ) is a German author .

From 1990 to 1992 Michaelis did an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Heilbronn, during which time he also gave first readings, received reading grants and exchanged letters with Holger Benkel and Oskar Pastior . Afterwards he was a bookseller several times and had several appearances in the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen . He has been working as a freelance journalist since 1997, writing theater reviews and short stories for newspapers.

Jan Michaelis lives in Düsseldorf .

Publications

• 2006: “Poetry in the head”, poems
• 2007: "Altweibermorde", short stories
• 2007: “The Sea at the Gate”, short stories
• 2008: "Ernest Flatter - A Vampire in Prague", children's book
• 2009: “Palazzo der eloquence”, short stories
• 2009: "Never Ask Too Much - A St. Petersburg Crime", detective novel
• 2010: “Derendorfer”, short stories
• 2011: "Ernest Flatter - A Vampire in St. Petersburg", children's book
• 2013: "Mord in Heilbronn: Krimi", detective novel

Awards / Scholarships

• 1999: Otto Rombach scholarship from the city of Heilbronn 1999.
• 2008: Literature Prize of the Advanced Training Academy for Business (FAW) gGmbH
• 2011: Literature Prize Recovery History first place among German-language contributions
• 2011: Recognition prize for the literature competition “Kleist and I” from the Free German Association of Authors

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Michaelis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Self-presentation