Thorsten Krämer

Thorsten Krämer (* 1971 in Wuppertal ) is a German writer .

Life

Thorsten Krämer was born in Wuppertal in 1971 and studied linguistics in Cologne. From 1991 to 1997 he was a member of the Cologne Authors' Workshop . His novels are close to pop literature , in them he often uses motifs from music and films and combines them into complex structures. Thorsten Krämer is married to the author Hung-min Krämer and has two children. He currently lives (after many years in Cologne) as a freelance writer and journalist in Wuppertal and works for magazines and radio.

Works (selection)

• My name is Hal Hartley. Film in words (Tropen Verlag, 1998)
• Almost lucky. Stories (Emons, 1998)
• New music from Japan. Roman ( Kiepenheuer & Witsch , 1999)
• The Democratic Forest. Poems ( parasite press , 2008)
• The change. Prose (yeh.de, 2015)
• The Democratic Forest. Poems (Brueterich Press, 2016)
• Marty. Prose ( Literature Quickie , 2016)

Awards

• 1996 Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature
• 1997 Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship from the City of Cologne
• 1998 Scholarship from the Arno Schmidt Foundation

literature

• The Cologne Authors' Lexicon, second volume, Emons, 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Thorsten Krämer in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.thorstenkraemer.de