Peter Stephan Jungk

Peter Stephan Jungk (born December 19, 1952 in Santa Monica , California ) is an Austrian-American German-speaking writer.

life and work

Peter Stephan Jungk's parents were journalist and futurologist Robert Jungk and Ruth Jungk, née Ruth Suschitzky. He grew up first in the United States and after 1957 in Vienna . From 1968 to 1970 he attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Berlin , and from 1970 until his Matura in 1972 he lived in Salzburg . In 1973 he worked as an assistant director at the Basel Theater . From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles .

From 1976 to 1979 he was resident in Salzburg again. In 1977 he worked as Peter Handke's assistant director on the filming of Handke's The Left-Handed Woman . In 1980, the native Jew Jungk attended a Torah school in Jerusalem . In 1981 he moved back to Vienna. Since 1988 he has lived in Paris with his wife, the photographer Lillian Birnbaum . In 1994 the daughter Adah Dylan was born. In 2011 he took on a visiting professorship for contemporary German literature at Washington University in St. Louis and in 2012 a visiting professorship at the University of Salzburg .

Peter Stephan Jungk is the author of novels , essays and screenplays , some of which he directed himself to film . He also translates from English.

Peter Stephan Jungk is a member of the Austrian PEN Club.

Holly forest . Frankfurt am Main 1978

Tour . Frankfurt am Main 1981

Franz Werfel (biography). Frankfurt am Main 1987

Tigor . Frankfurt am Main 1991

Four women . Heidelberg 1994 (together with Lillian Birnbaum)

The unrest of Stella Federspiel . Munich et al. 1996

The inheritance . Munich 1999

The King of America . Stuttgart 2001

The trip across the Hudson . Stuttgart 2005

The electric heart , Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2011 ISBN 978-3-552-05527-8

Theater: Oblomov . Based on the novel Oblomow by Iwan Gontscharow , world premiere at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , 2005

The darkrooms of Edith Tudor-Hart . Biography. S. Fischer, 2015

Woody Allen : God . Frankfurt am Main 1989
Woody Allen : Death .
Christopher Durang : Betty, Boo and Marriage . Frankfurt am Main 1987
Christopher Durang: Roared with laughter . Frankfurt am Main 1989
Raymond Fitzsimons : Edmund Kean . Frankfurt am Main 1987
Gabriel Gbadamosi : Hotel Orpheu . Frankfurt am Main 1994
Thornton Wilder : In Shakespeare and in the Bible . Frankfurt am Main 1999
Thornton Wilder: The doorbell rings . Frankfurt am Main 1999
Thornton Wilder: Youth . Frankfurt am Main 1999
Thornton Wilder: Underground rivers . Frankfurt am Main 1999
Pascal Rambert: End of a love . Frankfurt am Main, 2013, German world premiere Thalia Theater (Hamburg) , 2014

Franz Werfel - A World Friend Between Worlds (ZDF / ORF, 1988)
Leo Perutz - The Master of the Night (ZDF / ORF, 1989)
Eugen Bavcar - Dark Light (ZDF / ORF, 1992)
André Previn - A Bridge Between Worlds (Dor-Film, 2008)
In Edith's footsteps, tracking Edith . (peartree-entertainment, 2016) (Via Edith Tudor-Hart )

Jerusalem: who owns the city. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980.1, pp. 8-30. Informative experience report. ISSN 0342-8311

The Perfect American by Philip Glass . Libretto by Rudy Wurlitzer based on Jungk's novel The King of America , UA: January 22, 2013 at the Teatro Real in Madrid , Spain

personal data
SURNAME	Jungk, Peter Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-American German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santa Monica