Max Scharnigg

Max Scharnigg (* 1980 in Munich ) is a German writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Scharnigg attended a journalism school and has been working as a journalist and author ever since.

He belongs to the editorial team of Jetzt and works as an author for Architectural Digest , Cosmopolitan and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, among others . He also writes a column in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , a selection of which was published in 2010 as a book under the title That I have not understood acoustically now .

In 2011 his debut novel appeared with The Ascent of the Eiger North Face Under a Staircase , which was funded by the City of Munich's Literature Scholarship and awarded the Bavarian Art Prize and the Mara Cassens Prize .

Scharnigg lives and works in Munich.

Awards

• Young talent award for travel journalists from the Swiss canton of Graubünden (1st place) 2006
• Munich literature scholarship 2009 for the work The ascent of the Eiger north face under a staircase
• Nomination for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2010
• Bavarian Art Prize 2011 for the novel The ascent of the north face of the Eiger under a staircase
• Mara Cassens Prize 2011 for the novel The Ascent of the Eiger North Face under a staircase

Works

• Hotel Fatal , Erzählungen, Verlag Herder , March 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30259-6
• I didn't understand that acoustically , short prose, S. Fischer Verlag , October 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18679-2
• The ascent of the Eiger north face under a staircase , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40313-8
• Preliminary chronicle of heaven over Pildau , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40388-6
• The silence before the bite - fishing , Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-70008-4
• The rest of the summer , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-40494-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Scharnigg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Max Scharnigg at perlentaucher.de
• Homepage of Max Scharnigg
• Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/kult/kulturfoerderung/stipendien/literaturstipendien/338599/jury2009.html
2. ↑ http://bachmannpreis.eu/de/autoren/2293