Rainer Merkel

Rainer Merkel at a reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2012

Rainer Merkel (born May 26, 1964 in Cologne ) is a German writer .

Life

Rainer Merkel completed a degree in psychology and art history in Berlin , which he graduated with a diploma. He worked in a multimedia agency and as a psychologist on a fee basis . Today he lives as a freelance writer in Berlin.

Rainer Merkel received the following awards, among others: in 1999 a scholarship from the Literary Colloquium Berlin , in 2001 the literature award from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation , in 2002 a scholarship from the artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg and in 2003 a scholarship from the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles . He has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2005 .

In 2009 his novel Lichtjahreaway was nominated for the German Book Prize and reached the finals of the best six novels.

The year of miracles , Frankfurt am Main 2001.
Looking out , Bamberg 2002.
The feeling in the morning , Frankfurt am Main 2005.
Light years away , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-048442-0 .
The misfortunes of others. Kosovo, Liberia, Afghanistan , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-048443-7 .
Bo , Roman, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-048444-4 .
Go Ebola Go. A trip to Liberia , Fischer E-Books, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-403510-9 .
City without God , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397348-8 .

Elective Affinities , Berlin 2002 (together with Jörg Paulus and David Wagner )

Interview: Humility in front of the material , in: BELLA triste No. 13, Hildesheim 2005.

Commons : Rainer Merkel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ cf. dpa : Six novels nominated for the German Book Prize at zeit.de, September 16, 2009 (accessed October 12, 2015)
^ Erich Fried Prize to Rainer Merkel. In: derStandard.at. September 19, 2013, accessed December 13, 2017 .