Stephan Lohse

Stephan Lohse (* 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German actor , theater director and writer .

Life

Stephan Lohse studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and from 1990 worked at large theaters such as the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz or the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. He also took on numerous engagements in the independent theater scene ( Schauspielhaus Wien , Hebbel am Ufer , Sophiensæle , Matthaei and many others) and also worked as a director.

In 2017, Suhrkamp Verlag published Lohse's first novel Ein lazy God about an eleven-year-old boy whose little brother is dying. He supports his badly hit mother in the grief. The book received very good reviews and was on the SWR best list in June 2017 . The critic Hubert Spiegel judged: “Stephan Lohse tells a strange floating story of grief and loss, of the wondrous adventures of childhood and of how a son and a mother find each other in pain and helplessness. His novel is sensitive, but never cheesy, touching and humorous and shows a great feeling for speaking details. A nice, impressive debut. "

At the invitation of Hubert Winkels , he read his text Lumumbaland in July 2018 during the 42nd Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt .

Awards

• 2017 Franz Tumler Literature Prize (audience award)
• 2017 aspects literature award (shortlist)
• 2018 Working grant for literature, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
• 2019 residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas

Works

• A lazy god , novel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-518-75094-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Lohse , Literature Agency Partner + Propaganda (accessed on July 5, 2018)
2. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 18, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Lohse in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stephan Lohse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stephan Lohse: Author profile at Suhrkamp
• Stephan Lohse reads from "A lazy God" (video)