Klaus Ungerer

Klaus Ungerer (born April 10, 1969 in Northeim ) is a German writer , journalist , satirist and court reporter .

Life

Klaus Ungerer grew up in Lübeck and studied Scandinavian , English and folklore in Göttingen , Lund and Kiel . Since 1998 he has been an author in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , for which he also worked as an editor in Frankfurt am Main and Munich from 2001 to 2003 . He has lived in Berlin since 2003 and has been running a column with literary court reports in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 2004 . He was the chief cultural editor of the Netzeitung and editor of the satirical website "Spam" on Spiegel Online . September 2017 he became text editor of the weekly newspaper der Freitag .

Klaus Ungerer has published short prose and poetry since 1990 . He made his novel debut in 2008 with Alles über die Welt , which was followed by various prose volumes and narrative non-fiction books . Two edited volumes of Ungerer's court column have also appeared. From 2015 to 2017 Ungerer ran the poetry project #kungstag on his Twitter page , in which he turned a moment of his life into a short poem every day. Since 2017 he has curated and moderated the literary show Das Bunte Reh in Berlin .

Works

• Everything about the world, novel, Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89667-386-2
• Casa Zia Lina, story, SuKuLTuR , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937737-09-6
• Please press the Eins, Sachbuch, Ullstein, Berlin 2011 (together with Susanne Berkenheger ), ISBN 3-548-37416-6
• What does the judge know about love ?, court reports , Klett-Cotta (Tropen), Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-608-50316-1
• The first person, short prose, Sukultur, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95566-002-4
• Grlwow, short drama, e-book (Amazon), 2014
• The songs are waiting in the poplars, short prose, e-book (Amazon), 2014
• #kungtag, lyric poetry, twitter.com, since 2015
• How I saved the world, Klett-Cotta (Tropen), Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-50337-1 .
• The weeping murderer, court reports, image and home, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95958-037-3 .
• The super gender (author's pseudonym: Nick Wahlberg), Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-50247-3 .
• It's spring. Must be beautiful, short stories, Periplaneta, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95996-179-0 .

Awards / grants

• Working grant from the Thyll-Dürr-Foundation on Elba (2003)
• Nomination for the Michael Althen Prize (2016)

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Ungerer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Ungerer's blog
• Short biography and information on the work of Klaus Ungerer at Literaturport
• Discussion of “Alles über die Welt” in the FAZ
• Discussion of “Alles über die Welt” in the WAZ
• Literature by and about Klaus Ungerer in the catalog of the German National Library