Ulla Lenze

2012 at the Leipzig Book Fair

Ulla Lenze (born September 18, 1973 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German writer .

biography

Ulla Lenze studied school music and philosophy in Cologne , graduating with a state examination thesis on Hegel's theory of poetry. She lived in India for long periods of time , where she had already lived with an Indian family for six months as a sixteen-year-old student. In 2004 she was a writer in Damascus at the invitation of the Goethe Institute , and in 2010 she was writer-in-residence in Mumbai for nine months . Ulla Lenze lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. She runs writing workshops, a. a. In 2014 the prose workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for young authors. In September 2014 she accompanied Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on a delegation trip to New Delhi . In 2016 she took part in a meeting of Iraqi women poets in Basra . In the same year, she received the literature prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, endowed with 20,000 euros, for her entire work. In the jury statement by Nina Hugendubel : "Ulla Lenze convinces in her books with a poetic language and a great ability to reproduce situations and moods precisely and vividly ." Ulla Lenze is part of the literary portal WeiterSchreiben.jetzt, which selects authors War and crisis areas networked with German-speaking colleagues.

Awards and grants

• Bonn City Clerk 2020
• Lower Rhine Literature Prize 2020
• Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft 2016 "for your complete works"
• Residence grant at Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2014
• Residence grant at the German Study Center in Venice 2014
• Scholarship from the Heinrich-Heine-Haus of the City of Lüneburg 2012
• 9 months residency in Mumbai (Kunststiftung NRW and Goethe-Institut Mumbai) 2010
• Literature grant from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung ( Else-Heiliger-Fonds ) 2010/2011
• Working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW and the State Chancellery NRW 2010
• Residence grant from the City of Cologne for Istanbul (Atelier Galata) from October 1 to December 31, 2009
• Working grant from the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2009
• Grant from the Kunststiftung NRW 2005
• City clerk in Damascus (May 19 to June 20, 2004)
• Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2003
• Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation 2003
• Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship of the City of Cologne 2003
• Authors' workshop prose of the Literary Colloquium Berlin 2002

Publications

Novels

Autograph

• The recipient , Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3608964639

• The endless city , Roman. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-627-00210-7
• The little remnant of death , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-627-00179-7
• Archanu , Ammann, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3250601050
• Sister and Brother , DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3832178546 (TB 2006, ISBN 3442733243 )

• Translation into Chinese: Dharma Drum Publishing House, Taiwan 2006
• Translation into Arabic: Dar Canaan Verlag, Damascus 2005

in magazines and anthologies

• Contribution to "When I grow up, I'll become a poet", early texts by well-known authors, edited by Florian Werner. Ark 2015
• Ulla Lenze flies with Foreign Minister Steinmeier, in: DIE WELT, January 3, 2015
• In the no man's land of form. Essay, in: From trash to treasure, Kunsthalle Kiel. Kerber Verlag 2011
• Mumbai - a city in a state of emergency, in: NZZ, July 12, 2010
• The dialectical veil, in: FAZ, August 25, 2008
• Where the stars live. Through the Libyan Sahara by camel, in: Brigitte, December 2007
• Damascus Diary, in: The German-Arab city writer project, ed. by Johannes Ebert, Palmyra Verlag 2007
• Where India is cool, calm - and British. Mussoorie at the foot of the Himalaya, in: NZZ, September 20, 2007
• Is there a word in Arabic for land of longing? In: FAZ, July 3, 2007
• Summer in the mosque, in: Die Zeit, February 16, 2006
• Welcome to Arabia! In: NZZ, July 16, 2004
• The best 2003: Klagenfurt texts, the 27th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt (edited by Iris Radisch)
• Yesterday's shine, today's star. About Irmgard Keun. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, November 8, 2003
• Bells ringing, not visible, in: Full text June / July 2003
• Greetings, in: Language in the Technical Age, No. 165
• Im Augenfeld, BELLA triste No. 1, autumn 2001

Internet diary

• Damascus diary in the Internet project "Midad" of the Goethe Institute.

Web links

Databases

Commons : Ulla Lenze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ulla Lenze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Ulla Lenze at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and information on Ulla Lenze's work at Literaturport
• Official website of Ulla Lenze
• Ulla Lenze's video about her novel "The Endless City"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulla Lenze flies with Foreign Minister Steinmeier. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved May 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Ulla Lenze: In Basra, of all places. Die Zeit , February 18, 2016, accessed on February 25, 2016 . 
3. ↑ The novel "The Endless City" Irritierende Fremde , review by Manuela Reichart in Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 7, 2015, accessed March 11, 2015
4. ^ Review of the novel "The Endless City" in the taz
5. ↑ Damascus diary ( memento of February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Goethe Institute