Peter Renz
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
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Renz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Renz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Renz on literaturbuero.de
personal data | |
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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 |