Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

The author Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler (* 1959 in Neumünster ) is a German writer .

Life

Ziegler studied visual communication in Dortmund , later modern German literature , linguistics and psychology at the Free University in Berlin, graduating with a master's degree . In the early 1990s he worked as an art editor for taz . He published essayistic works on art and photography . His first novel, Hamburger Hochbahn , took first place on the SWR best list in April 2007 and was shortlisted for the Aspect Literature Prize . His novel Nothing White , published in 2012 , about the life path of a typographer looking for the perfect font, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and at the same time on the shortlist for the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in the same year. His 2014 novel And now you, Orlando! tells "of appearance and reality in glittering London of the Millennium". In 2018 the short story volume Scotland and other short stories followed .

Ziegler lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Together with Uwe Scheid : Naked among the naked. Utopias of nude culture 1906–1942. Photographs from the Scheid Collection. Nishen , Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88940-051-5 .
Together with Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein : From word to image and back. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-433-02346-8 .
Together with Ulrich Beck and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl : Own life. Excursions into the unknown society in which we live. Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39417-5 (= exhibition catalog, with photographs by Timm Rautert ).
Magical alliances. Photography and art. Lindinger and Schmid, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-929970-24-4 .
Photographic works. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4791-X .
Hamburger Hochbahn. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-8353-0096-2 .
Wild meadows. Autogeography. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-8353-0275-2 .
The antagonist of the sun. Thought blocks. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0562-5 .
Nothing white. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42326-4 .
And now you, Orlando! Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42449-0 .
Together with Dominik Wichmann : Bernd & Hilla Becher in conversation. Two interviews. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8296-0752-0 . (With 45 illustrations)
Scotland and other stories Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2018, ISBN 9783518428269 .
The invention of the west. A German story with Will McBride. Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783518074992 .

^ Clearing up prejudices The shortlist for the German Book Prize Deutschlandradio Kultur from September 12, 2012 (accessed September 12, 2012)
↑ And now you, Orlando! on suhrkamp.de
↑ Comburg scholarship (website of the city of Schwäbisch Hall)