Jens Petersen (writer)

Jens Petersen (2009)

Jens Petersen (born March 20, 1976 in Pinneberg ) is a German writer and doctor .

life and work

After studying in Munich , Lima , New York , Florence and Buenos Aires , Petersen lives as a doctor in Zurich . In literary terms, the author initially emerged with stories , especially in anthologies for young people . He has received numerous awards for his novel project The Housekeeper . According to the judgment of the aspects jury in 2005, Petersen describes in this generational novel "unsentimental, straightforward and yet multi-layered the story of a father-son relationship on a knife's edge". At the Klagenfurt Competition in 2009 , Petersen was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

Publications

novel

• The housekeeper , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05786-9 (as paperback: Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-423-13539-9 )

stories

• La Marocaine in: Jacques van Schalkwyk (Ed.): Schall und Rauch , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935376-02-2
• Ehrentraud in: Christine Knödler (Hrsg.): Without network: stories from the very first time , Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-551-35280-1
• An encounter in: Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn (ed.): More beautiful than flies , Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-551-35330-1
• In the eye of the hunter in: Christine Knödler (Ed.): Angel next door: Stories between heaven and earth , Aarau 2006, ISBN 3-7941-7058-X
• Torpedo at six o'clock in: Christine Knödler (Ed.): The story case for treasure hunters , Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-414-82008-0
• Wamba and the boat in: Christine Knödler (Hrsg.): Geschichtenkoffer für Glückskinder , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-414-82050-1
• Je t'aime beaucoup in: Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn (Ed.): At Another Place , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-62309-4
• Until death. Excerpt from a novel in: Ijoma Mangold (Hrsg.): Die Beste 2009: Klagenfurter Texte , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3492053426

Awards

• 2003 literature grant from the city of Munich
• 2005 Aspect Literature Prize
• 2005 Bavarian Art Prize
• 2005 Kranichstein Literature Prize
• 2007 Evangelical Book Prize
• 2009 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2009 working year for the city of Zurich

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Petersen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jens Petersen at perlentaucher.de

Texts

• Petersen on German doctors in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (March 27, 2006)
• Petersen on euthanasia in ZEIT (July 17, 2009)

About the author and work

• Petersen in conversation, schauinsblau.de , 2009
• Portrait in ZEIT , 2009
• Interview on Bayern 2, 2009
• Laudation for the Evangelical Book Prize by Petra Bahr, 2007