Moritz Heger

Moritz Heger (born April 24, 1971 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer .

Life

Heger studied fine arts in Saarbrücken from 1991 to 1992 and then from 1992 to 1999 German , Protestant theology , pedagogy and theater studies in Mainz . He finished his studies with a Magister Artium and the first state examination . From 1989 to 1997 he headed the youth theater group "TüTe" in Mainz. Today he lives as a high school teacher for German and Protestant religion in Stuttgart. From 2004 to 2011 he also directed the theater group “Die Bordratten” at the Evangelisches Heidehof-Gymnasium Stuttgart , which worked with texts he had written.

Moritz Heger has won several literary prizes . In 2008 his first novel In den Schnee was published by the Salzburger Verlag Jung und Jung .

2012: Irseer Pegasus, 2nd prize
2010: Vocabulary Rhineland-Palatinate (youth theater play competition), 2nd place
2007: MDR Literature Prize and Audience Prize
2003: Literature Prize of the City of Mainz
1996: Promotion Prize for the Joseph Breitbach Prize

with Erik Strub: FeuerLand. Youth play based on motifs from the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding . (Premiere: Mainz 1993). Buchner Theater Verlag, Krailling 1994. New edition: Impuls Theater Verlag, Planegg 2006.
In the swimmingpool. In: Michael Hametner (Ed.): The composition of the world. The best short stories from the 12th MDR literature competition 2007.
In the snow. Novel. Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902497-37-6 .
Air stuff. Play for professional youth theater. Kaiserverlag, Vienna 2010.
Headland. Play. Kaiserverlag, Vienna 2012.
Ears of utan and curse. Play for professional children's theater. Kaiserverlag, Vienna 2012.
Mothers. Play. Kaiserverlag, Vienna 2012.