Peter Renz

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Peter Josef Renz (born June 8, 1946 in Weingarten , Württemberg ) is a German writer .

Life

Peter Renz completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter and then trained as a technical draftsman. After eight years of work in the metal industry, he studied from 1969 to 1973 with a scholarship from the “ Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes ” at the Weingarten University of Education . From 1973 he studied linguistics, German and political science at the University of Konstanz , which he completed in 1978 with a master's degree. From 1978 to 1983 he worked there as a research assistant.

Renz, who had already started writing in the 1960s, took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt in 1980. From 1983 to 1987 he was co-owner and editor of the Drumlin publishing house . Renz now lives as a freelance writer in Waldburg, Upper Swabia .

Peter Renz is the author of novels, short stories, essays, plays, television scripts and radio plays.

Peter Renz is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Association of German Writers . He received the following awards: 1981 the Bodensee Literature Prize , 1986 a New York grant from the German Literature Fund and in 2001 the Ravensburger Literature Prize .

Works

  • Temporary reassurance . Novel. Hoffman & Campe, Hamburg 1980
  • Linguistics and literary studies in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR . Erlangen 1981
  • The lucky skin . Novel. Hoffman & Campe, Hamburg 1982
  • Upper Swabia . Marco Polo travel guide. Ostfildern 1995
  • Idée fixe de la mort, danse macabre de la vie . Saulgau 1997
  • Contrasts in Upper Swabia. Pictures and stories . Schwäbische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 1997 (together with Rupert readers)
  • We were born in 1946 . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2005
  • Friedrichshafen. A German city on the lake. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2008
  • Homeland. Excursion to an unknown country. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2015

Editing

  • See him . Biberach 1982
  • Far away, but clearly to the eye . Weingarten 1983
  • Jan Peter Tripp: The downside of things . Weingarten 1984
  • Poetry reading . Friedrichshafen 1988
  • Imagination on rails . Friedrichshafen 1989
  • In the mood for adventure . Friedrichshafen 1989
  • Nice area . Friedrichshafen 1989
  • Hermann Waibel . Friedrichshafen 1990
  • Playground for poets. A reader . Eggingen 1993 (together with Oswald Burger)
  • The Ravensburger Kreis. A literary society in Germany . Eggingen 1999
  • Weingarten - tradition and present . Weingarten 2001
  • Stories from Upper Swabia . Tübingen 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Renz, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renz, Peter Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Weingarten , Württemberg