Norbert Zähringer

Norbert Zähringer (born May 4, 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer.

life and work

Norbert Zähringer grew up in Wiesbaden . After training as a bank clerk, he studied literature and theater studies. He primarily writes novels and works as a freelance writer a. a. for Deutschlandradio Berlin.

Norbert Zähringer lives in Berlin.

So. Roman

VERBAG Bank (Vereinigte Banken AG) opens a new branch on the demolition dump of an old light bulb factory in the east of Berlin. However, it is only a corrugated iron container that Cordt Gummer now heads as branch manager. When his only employee calls in sick and his customers stay away, he leads the United Banks into a prosperous company that is based solely on Gummer's invention. When his landlord put him in the air shortly afterwards, he immediately moves into the container.

The characters move towards each other unnoticed in different places, at different times. Sometimes just to meet for a moment or to linger. Everyone finds a specific place in the finely woven net. From the list distributor Hugo Stunz, the shabby prostitute Iris Puh, the mysterious Valeska who drifts around the world, to the somewhat stupid burglar Willy Bein.

Norbert Zähringer describes their life unadorned. Although told in the style of an adventure novel, Zähringer also uses montage and collage techniques to adapt the tempo to the individual episodes. Large parts of the novel seem torn due to the unspecified leaps in time, but the details of the style mix are quite charming.

Single track

• So. Roman. Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0155-3 .
• When i slept. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-498-07665-5 .
• One of many. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-07664-1 .
• To the end of the world. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-07668-9 .
• Where we were. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-07669-6 .
• Zorro Vela. Novel. Thienemann, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-522-18530-1 .

anthology

• Berlin novel. Narrative. In: Ulrich Janetzki , Jürgen J. Becker (ed.): The city after the wall . Ullstein Verlag, Munich 1998.
• Suicide, Trakl. Crime story. In: Anne Enderlein, Cornelie Kister (Ed.): The corpse was hanging on the Christmas tree . Ullstein Verlag, Munich 1999.
• Ararat. Short story. In: Anne Enderlein, Cornelie Kister (ed.): Eisige Zeiten . Montage-Verlag, Berlin 2000.
• Lenin. Short story. In: Nobody. Berlin literary magazine, 1996.
• Excerpt from the novel So : Timing. In: Language in the Technical Age. 1998.

Awards

• 1997 participation in the authors' workshop prose of the literary colloquium Berlin
• 2002 working scholarships from the Berlin Senate (1999) and the German Literature Fund Darmstadt
• 2002 invitation to the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades / Los Angeles
• 2004 Working grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation
• 2015 scholarship from the Berlin Senate
• 2016 Robert Gernhardt Prize for his novel project Where we were
• 2016/2017 working grant from the German Literature Fund
• 2019 10-week residency in London at Queen Mary University from the German Literature Fund

literature

• Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Zähringer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Norbert Zähringer at Literaturport
• Book review: When I slept - Germany radio
• Feature about: When I slept with Michaela Schmitz's audio version on Deutschlandfunk

supporting documents

1. ↑ Residence grants , Börsenblatt dated May 28, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019