Jo Lendle

Jo Lendle at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2013

Jo Lendle (born February 28, 1968 in Osnabrück ) is a German writer . He is the publisher of Carl Hanser Verlag .

Live and act

Jo Lendle grew up in Göttingen . He studied literature, cultural studies and philosophy in Hildesheim and Montreal and was the first graduate of the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . In 1996/1997 he published the literary magazine Edit . From 1997 he was involved in developing the DuMont literature program as a lecturer for German-language literature. He also taught as a visiting professor and lecturer at the Universities of Munich, Leipzig, Hildesheim and at the Swiss Literature Institute. In 2006 Lendle became program manager for German-language literature and in 2010 Managing Director of DuMont Buchverlag. Since the beginning of 2014 he has been the publisher of Carl Hanser Verlag. He is the publisher of the literary magazine Akzente and a member of the board of trustees of the Munich Literature House , the publishers' committee of the German Book Trade Association  and the board of trustees of the German Literature Fund and a juror for the German Bookshop Prize .

Awards

• Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
• Leipzig Prize for Literature 1997
• Grant of the German Literature Fund 2005
• Scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW 2006
• Scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation 2006

Publications

• Among martens. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1999.
• The cosmonaut. Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2008.
• My last attempt to save the world. Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04391-7 .
• All land. Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04525-6 .
• Zenzi likes it cold. Illustrated by Kat Menschik and Sascha Menschik, Carlsen / Pixi, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3551040930 .
• What we call love. Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3421046062 .

Translation:

• Jáchym Topol : I know this one. (Co-translation) Galrev Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-910161-70-2 .
• Adam Mansbach : Damn it, go to sleep. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9658-5 .
• Mira Gonzalez: I will never be beautiful enough to be beautiful with you. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24940-0 .
• Shaun Usher (ed.): Lists of Note: Records That Mean the World. (Co-translation) Heyne Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-27000-8 .

Web links

Commons : Jo Lendle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jo Lendle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jo Lendle's private website
• Author page by Jo Lendle of the Randomhouse publishing house
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jo Lendle at perlentaucher.de
• NDR reports with and about Jo Lendle
• Interview (FAZ January 9, 2014, p. 27)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Hanser Verlag in the generation change. In: FAZ from December 15, 2012, page 35.
2. ↑ The right one. Why Jo Lendle is a brilliant choice as the new Hanser boss. In: Die Zeit from December 19, 2012.