Stephan Wackwitz

Stephan Wackwitz at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

Stephan Wackwitz (born January 20, 1952 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer .

Life

Stephan Wackwitz attended the Evangelical Theological Seminary of the Württemberg regional church in Schöntal and Urach. He studied German, history and philosophy in Munich and Stuttgart and did his doctorate with Heinz Schlaffer on Hölderlin's elegy. After a time as a lecturer at King's College London , he worked in various functions for the Goethe-Institut from 1986 , with stations in Frankfurt am Main, New Delhi, Tokyo, Munich , Kraków , Bratislava , New York , Tbilisi and Minsk. He lives in Berlin.

With the exception of the literary and social satire “Walker's equation”, Wackwitz's literary works are essayistic and autobiographical in nature. His family history, his Marxist involvement during his studies and his job-related stays in various parts of the world play an important thematic role .

Wackwitz has published regularly in Merkur since 1987 . His literary reviews appear in various German-language feature sections . His literary work has been published by S. Fischer since 2002 .

Awards

• 1996 Prize for the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
• 2010 Wilhelm Müller Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
• 2012 Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize together with Andrzej Bart
• 2016 Wilhelm Lehmann Prize for My Mother's Pictures

Publications

• Mourning and Utopia around 1800 , Stuttgart 1982
• Friedrich Hölderlin , Stuttgart 1985
• Flying slaves - an attempt on Tom Waits in: Lettre International Heft 3 (1988), pp. 44-46.
  • English version with Nina Sonenberg: The Flying Slaves: An Essay on Tom Waits , in: The Threepenny Review No. 40 (Winter, 1990), pp. 30-32.
• Tokyo , Zurich 1994.
• Walker's equation , Göttingen 1996
• Small trips , Göttingen 1997
• The truth about Sancho Panza , Munich [u. a.] 1999
• Self-humiliation by walking , Frankfurt am Main 2002
• An invisible land , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • An invisible country. Translated by Stephen Lehmann, Paul Dry Books 2005
  • Un pays invisible. Translated by Barbara Fontaine, Éditions Teper 2007
• New people , Frankfurt am Main 2005
• Eastward expansion. Twelve trips. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Fifth Avenue , Frankfurt am Main 2010
• The forgotten center of the world - On the way between Tbilisi, Baku, Yerevan , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
• My mother's pictures , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002420-6 .

literature

• Dirk Knipphals: Go for a walk with your own thinking. About the essayist Stephan Wackwitz. In: Neue Rundschau 123,4 (2012), pp. 223–230.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Wackwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stephan Wackwitz , at S. Fischer-Verlag
• Short biography and reviews of works by Stephan Wackwitz at perlentaucher.de