Rolf Schönlau
Rolf Schönlau (born December 18, 1950 in Paderborn ) is a German writer .
Life
Rolf Schönlau grew up in Schlangen in the Lippe district . After graduating from high school , he completed training as a pharmacist assistant . He then studied literature and psychology in Berlin and Munich . He completed this course with a master's degree . Long stays in the Middle East and London followed . Afterwards Schönlau was a member of a translators collective for literary translations from English and lecturer for German as a foreign language .
In 1993 he returned to his hometown, where he has lived as a freelance writer ever since . Schönlau was also press spokesman for the Weser Renaissance Museum in Lemgo .
In 2004 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .
Rolf Schönlau received the 2000 Literature Prize of the city of Georgsmarienhütte .
Works
- Hot iron , Buxtehude 1990
- The Euro-Kids , Cologne 1998 (together with Gabriele Knör)
- Weser & Renaissance , Holzminden 2007 (together with Michael Bischoff )
- Nölting or The Torture of Invention / Novelle from the End of Inventions , Frankfurt am Main 2008 (The Science Novels)
- Das Hibernat , radio play, WDR, 2013
- Built in OWL: A foray into the history of architecture through East Westphalia-Lippe , Paderborn 2014 (together with Katja Schoene and Michael Bischoff)
- World surveyor. The Golden Age of Cartography , Dresden 2015 (together with Michael Bischoff and Vera Lüpkes)
- The small world surveyor , Dresden 2015 (together with Michael Bischoff and Vera Lüpkes)
- Moon travel. From Lukian to Wikitravel , Holzminden 2015
- Daniel Defoe: The Consolidator: Or: Memories of all kinds of events in the world of the moon, translation and epilogue, The Other Library: Berlin 2018
- Charles Gildon: Against Defoe. Robinson Crusoe and Freitag confront their author , translation and epilogue, Friedenauer Presse: Berlin 2019
Web links
- Own website
- Bachmann Prize
- Culture server NRW
- creare - short film on the history of creativity
- From no man's land to a restricted area
- Das Hibernat - 100 days blog ( Memento from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schönlau, Rolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |