Roman Ehrlich

Roman Ehrlich (* 1983 in Aichach ) is a German writer .

biography

Ehrlich grew up in Neuburg an der Donau . After a discontinued professional training as a radio and television technician, he studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He then matriculated to study Modern German Literature at the Free University of Berlin , but dropped out after a while. He writes prose and drama. In 2011 he was a finalist at the 19th open mike . At the invitation of Paul Jandl , he took part in the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt in 2013 . In July 2013 his debut novel The Cold Year was published by DuMont Buchverlag and in 2014 his collection of short stories Urwaldgäste . Ehrlich was co-editor of the betting community and the literary anthology Edition NB . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Roman Ehrlich lives in Berlin .

Awards

• 2010 literature course of the 34th days of German-language literature
• 2010 Workshop days of the Vienna Burgtheater
• 2011 working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2011 Authors' workshop prose at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2014 Literature Prize of the City of Bremen (sponsorship prize)
• 2014 Robert Walser Prize for the novel The Cold Year
• 2015 residency grant from Villa Aurora in Los Angeles
• 2016 Ernst Toller Prize
• 2017 Alfred Döblin Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz

Works

Standalone publications

• The cold year (novel). DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8321-9725-4 .
• Jungle guests (stories). DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-9753-7 .
• The terrible days of terrible horror (novel). S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002531-9 .
• Das Theater des Krieg / Theater of War (with Michael Disqué). Spector Books, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-95-905101-9
• Crossing (with Michael Disqué). Spector Books, Leipzig, 2020, ISBN 978-3-95-905369-3

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Dog Day Cicadas . In: Anke Bastrop and Katja Thomas (eds.), No hill for the wild horses, Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-937799-51-3 .
• A request . In: 19th open mike - International competition for young German-language prose and poetry, Allitera Verlag , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86906-224-2 .
• Tiffany the manatee . In: Edit - paper for new texts 59, summer 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roman Ehrlich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Roman Ehrlich at perlentaucher.de
• Homepage of the author on the website of the publisher

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
2. ↑ Homepage TDDL 2013
3. ↑ Romy Träber: Stories of a higher order , review on literaturkritik.de from August 3, 2015, accessed July 8, 2019
4. ↑ Homepage TDDL 2010
5. ↑ nachtkritik.de
6. ^ Homepage Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
7. ^ Homepage Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
8. ↑ Homepage Villa Aurora
9. ^ Petra Plättner: Alfred Döblin Medal for Roman Ehrlich. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, press release from February 1, 2017 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on February 1, 2017.