Julia Schoch

Julia Schoch (2017)

Julia Schoch (born on May 17, 1974 in Bad Saarow ) is a German writer and translator . She writes novels , stories , essays , radio plays and has worked as a columnist .

Life

Schoch was born as the daughter of an officer and a bookseller in Bad Saarow. She grew up in Eggesin , a small town on the southern bank of the Szczecin Lagoon . In 1986 the family moved back to Potsdam . Schoch attended sports school there in 1987/88. As a helmsman in the "Vierer mit", she and her team became GDR champion. From 1988 to 1992 she attended the extended secondary school "Hermann von Helmholtz" in Potsdam. After leaving school, Schoch studied German and Romance languages at the University of Potsdam , Montpellier and Bucharest . In the nineties she worked alongside her studies in the “Melodie” cinema in Potsdam. Before becoming a freelance writer and translator in 2003, she taught French literature at the University of Potsdam. She is a member of the German PEN Center . Apart from longer stays abroad, she lives in Potsdam with her husband and two children.

Awards (selection)

• 2001 Promotion Prize for the Brandenburg Literature Prize
• 2002 Award for the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg
• 2003 Promotional Prize for the Meersburger Droste Prize ; Hermann Lenz Scholarship
• 2004 Stefan George Prize for Forever Valley from Marie Redonnet
• 2005 Jury Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 2006 Dresden city clerk
• 2007 town clerk for Rheinsberg
• 2008 Art Prize for Literature from the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH
• 2008 scholarship, German Study Center in Venice
• 2009 nomination for the price of the book fair and first place on the SWR best list
• 2011 residency scholarship at Casa Baldi , Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo
• 2011 André Gide Prize for the translation of Georges Hyvernaud's La peau et les os

Works

Individual publications

• The body of the salamander. Stories. Piper, Munich 2001 ISBN 3-492-04375-5
• Appointments with Mattok. Novel. Piper, Munich 2004 ISBN 3-492-04574-X
• Steltz & Brezoianu. Prose miniatures. Edition AZUR by Glaux Verlag Christine Jäger, Jena 2007 ISBN 978-3-940265-02-9
• At the speed of summer. Novel. Piper, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-492-05252-8
• Self-portrait with Bonaparte. Novel. Piper, Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3-492-30306-4
• Beautiful souls and accomplices. Novel. Piper, Munich 2018 ISBN 978-3-492-05773-8
• Fontaneske . Write once, travel as if it were all about nothing . Vacat, Potsdam 2019 ISBN 978-3-930752-57-7

Publications in anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Hitting in passing. Narrative. In: Best German storytellers. DVA, 2002
• Landscape near Aigues-Mortes. Narrative. in: 20 under 30. Young German authors . Ed. Martin Brinkmann , Werner Loch-Lawrence . DVA, Stuttgart 2002 ISBN 3-421-05609-9
• The sixth card. Story, in: Bella triste , 4, 2002
• The classic hero and freedom, or: is the undisturbed person suitable for literature? Essay. In: Bella triste , 25, 2009
• I leave you. In: Read! The book . Piper 2020

Translations

• Fred Vargas : The fourteenth stone . Structure, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-351-03030-4
• Fred Vargas: The third virgin . Structure, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-7466-2455-6
• Fred Vargas: The black waters of the Seine . Structure, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-7466-2350-4
• Fred Vargas: The sign of Aries . Structure, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-351-03250-0
• Georges Hyvernaud : The cattle wagon . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-518-22422-9
• Georges Hyvernaud: skin and bones . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-22456-4
• Eugène Dabit : Hotel du Nord. Schöffling, Frankfurt 2015 ISBN 978-3-89561-166-7
• Daniel Anselme: Adieu Paris. Arche, Zurich 2015 ISBN 978-3-7160-2719-6
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : Confession of friendship. Insel, 2016 ISBN 978-3-458-20508-1
• Eugène Dabit: Petit-Louis . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2018 ISBN 978-3-89561-167-4
• Isabelle Eberhardt : “I was a nomad even as a child. My Algerian Diaries ”. Edition Erdmann, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7374-0044-2
• Maryam Madjidi : You jump, I fall . Structure, Berlin 2018 ISBN 978-3-351-05050-4
• Frédéric Beigbeder : Live endlessly . Piper, Munich 2018 ISBN 978-3-492-05923-7
• Victoria Mas: Die Tanzenden , Munich 2020 EAN 978-3-492-07014-0

Radio play and audio book

• Kaliningrad night . Original broadcast January 15, 2008, SWR. Print: “Rheinsberger Bogen, 25”, Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum, Rheinsberg
• At the speed of summer. Novel. Read by Claudia Michelsen , speak low, Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3-940018-69-4

Web links

Commons : Julia Schoch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Julia Schoch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Julia Schoch's website
• Short biography and information on Julia Schoch's work at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Julia Schoch at perlentaucher.de
• Author portrait of Julia Schoch on the website of the Potsdam university newspaper Portal
• Steltz & Brezoianu . Publishing website about Julia Schoch's book
• Interview in Bookmarks (BR) Video, 7 min. ( br-online.de ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ))
• Schoch in Volltext (magazine) , 1, 2019: The merciless memory of shame. Over the three (re) translations of works from 2017 to 2019 Annie Ernaux '

Individual evidence

1. ^ Prize for young translators of Francophone literature into German. Donated by the “Conseil International de la langue française”. Endowment € 2,500. The award ceremony was held by the Heinrich Heine University , Düsseldorf, study course in literary translation, chair Hans Theo Siepe .
2. ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography. Retrieved December 14, 2015 .