Patrick Findeis

Patrick Findeis (* 1975 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German writer .

Life

After training as a dental technician , Findeis studied comparative literature , psychology and communication research at the University of Bonn . From 2003 to 2006 he attended the German Literature Institute in Leipzig .

The chapters of his novel No Beautiful Land appeared in the literary magazines Edit and Language in the Technical Age in 2007 and 2008 , and with another excerpt from the novel, he won the 3sat Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 7,500 euros) in 2008 . In the opinion of the juror Burkhard Spinnen , Findeis found a "coherent language [...] in which the contemporary problems of the characters and the old tragic motifs of the downfall fit together perfectly".

In 2014 and 2015, together with Dieter Bongartz , who has since passed away, he ran the SK Stiftung Kultur's Cologne writing school for young people , and has been its sole director since 2016.

Awards

• 2006: Klagenfurt literature course
• 2007/08: Residence grant from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
• 2007: Scholarship from the authors' workshop of the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2008: Working grant from the Berlin Senate
• 2009: Art Prize for Literature from the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH
• 2010: Spreewald literary scholarship in the Hotel zur Bleiche, Burg / Spreewald
• 2011: Literature grant from the state of Baden-Württemberg
• 2011: Residence grant from the Villa Aurora Foundation in Los Angeles
• 2013 working grant from the Berlin Senate

Publications

novel

• No beautiful country (novel). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04417-4 .
• Where we find each other (novel). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04536-2 .

radio play

• Not a beautiful country . Production: SWR 2012, approx. 77 '. Directed by Kai Grehn . With Marianne Sägebrecht , Heinz-Josef Braun , and others
• Snow waltz . Production: SWR 2013, approx. 72 '. Director: Kai Grehn. With Pippa Galli , Heinz-Josef Braun, Thomas Huber .
• Hannelore, or a life that has been photographed, wants to be coped with . Production: SWR 2014, approx. 77 '. Director: Kai Grehn. With Dagmar Manzel .
• Wolves, wolves! Production: SWR 2015, approx. 53 '. Director: Kai Grehn. With Marek Harloff , Karina Plachetka , Carlo Ljubek , Thomas Huber.
• Metamorphoses. From the life of Maria Sibylla Merian . Production: SWR 2016, approx. 74 '. Director: Kai Grehn. With Anne Ratte-Polle, Lilith Stangenberg, Virginia Mukwesa.
• Zaïre 74 - Come quickly, but approach carefully . Production: SWR 2018. Directed by Kai Grehn . With Carlo Ljubek , Friederike Ott , Florian von Manteuffel , Michael Schütz u. a.
• Twenty on Selsky . Production: SRF 2020. Director: Mark Ginzler. With Sebastian Weber, Anne Müller, Daniel Lommatzsch, and others

Other publications

• Without a trace. In: Tippgemeinschaft , 2004.
• A head is still in my suitcase. In: Tippgemeinschaft , 2005.
• Good news tonight. In: open-mike , 2005.
• Senseless rebellion against one's own anatomy. In: Tippgemeinschaft , 2006.
• Not a beautiful country (Chapter 1). In: Edit 42, 2007.
• Not a beautiful country (Chapter 4). In: Language in the Technical Age , No. 185, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official website of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
2. ↑ Denitsa Rutseva: The writing school is like an island. (Report) “Herzgeburten Hirngespinste” of the writing school class 2014 presents its texts. In: SK Foundation Culture of Sparkasse KölnBonn. December 2014, accessed February 2, 2015 . 
3. ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography from LAND BRANDENBURG LOTTO GmbH. Retrieved December 14, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Wolves, wolves! by Patrick Findeis , WDR 5 radio play on Sunday, accessed April 4, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Patrick Findeis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Patrick Findeis at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Patrick Findeis at perlentaucher.de