Ulrich Peltzer

Ulrich Peltzer at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Autograph

Ulrich Peltzer (born December 9, 1956 in Krefeld ) is a German writer .

Life

Ulrich Peltzer studied psychology from 1975 with a minor in philosophy at the Free University and graduated in 1982 as a psychologist . In his diploma thesis he dealt with "Aspects of the formation of bourgeois individuality in court society".

Peltzer works as a freelance writer and has published several books. In it he processes his time in Berlin and experiences in New York. Characteristic of Peltzer's city novels is the lack of a conventional, realistic portrayal of the outside world. Instead, the focus is on the reproduction of the protagonists' consciousness processes. He describes his turn to the metropolis as follows: I lack the feeling of nostalgia . Landscapes don't evoke much for me. I like to be in big cities.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He has been an elected member of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) since 2010 and director of the literature section since 2015, of which he became deputy head in 2012. The German Academy for Language and Poetry elected him a member in 2015.

Works

• The sins of laziness , novel, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-250-10067-6 ; as paperback: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18908-3 .
• Stefan Martinez , Roman, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1995, ISBN 978-3-250-10270-0 ; as paperback: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18907-6 .
• All or none , Roman, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 978-3-250-10408-7 ; as paperback: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19631-9 .
• Bryant Park , short story, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-250-60035-0 ; as paperback: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19630-2 .
• Part of the solution , Roman, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-250-60113-5 ; as paperback: rororo, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-24844-3 .
• About the disappearance of illusions and the things found again. Speech to the high school graduates of the year , Gollenstein Verlag, Merzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-938823-37-8 .
• Unter dir die Stadt , screenplay (co-author), 2010.
• It starts right in the middle. Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-060806-2 .
• The better life , Roman, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-060805-5 ; as paperback: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-18742-3 .

Awards

• 1992: Bertelsmann scholarship at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
• 1996: Berlin Literature Prize of the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
• 1997: Anna Seghers Prize
• 2000: Prize of the SWR best list
• 2001: Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis der Stadt Krefeld
• 2003: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen
• 2008: Berlin Literature Prize for his complete works
• 2008: Düsseldorf Literature Prize
• 2008: Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize
• 2009/2010: City Clerk of Bergen
• 2010: German Film Award for the screenplay for Unter dir die Stadt (together with Christoph Hochhäusler )
• 2010: Member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin .
• 2010/2011: Frankfurt poetics lectures under the motto "we start in the middle"
• 2011: Heinrich Böll Prize for his "clairvoyant, incorruptible analysis of our present"
• 2013 Carl Amery Literature Prize
• 2015: Marieluise Fleißer Prize
• 2015: Peter Weiss Prize
• 2015: Franz Hessel Prize for Better Life
• 2016: Gerty Spies Literature Prize
• 2016: Kranichsteiner Literature Prize "in recognition of his previous work with special consideration of the novel The Better Life "

Interviews

• I just sit down and start - interview. In: BELLA triste No. 10, 2004.
• "Why are feelings not the real thing, Mr. Peltzer?" - Interview by Jesko Bender in the FAZ March 28, 2011

literature

• Helmut Böttiger : Ulrich Peltzer. The dream of history. In: Helmut Böttiger: After the utopias. Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05301-8 , pp. 171-184.
• Christian Jäger: Berlin Heinrichplatz. The Novels of Ulrich Peltzer. In: Stephen Brockmann (Ed.): Writing and Reading Berlin. Special Issue of Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 28.1 (2004), pp. 183-210.
• Susanne Ledanff: Berlin turning novels at the end of the nineties: Cees Nooteboom, Peter Schneider, Ulrich Peltzer. In: Susanne Ledanff: Capital fantasies: Berlin city readings in contemporary literature 1989-2008. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-725-1 , pp. 310-345.
• Paul Fleming, Uwe Schütte (ed.): Telling the present: Ulrich Peltzer and the aesthetics of the political. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-83762-489-2 .
• Bernard Banoun, Maren Jäger (Ed.): Ulrich Peltzer. Heft 226, Edition Text and Critique, München 2020, ISBN 978-3-96707-058-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Peltzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ulrich Peltzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Figure lexicon for part of the solution by Eva D. Becker in the portal Literaturlexikon online
• Mr. Peltzer's feeling for pain - review of part of the solution on Spiegel Online , September 18, 2007
• Temporal body, tattooed - review of part of the solution in DIE ZEIT , issue 45, 2007
• Membership page on the homepage of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
• Ulrich Peltzer in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Since 2015 director of the AdK literature section
2. ↑ Press release: New members of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , June 16, 2015
3. ↑ Heinrich Böllpreis 2011 goes to Ulrich Peltzer , PM of the City of Cologne from July 8, 2011
4. ↑ donaukurier.de of Aug. 15, 2015
5. ↑ Kranichsteiner Literature Prize goes to Ulrich Peltzer , buchmarkt.de, June 24, 2016, accessed on June 24, 2016
6. ↑ "Why are feelings not the real thing, Mr. Peltzer?" In the FAZ , March 28, 2011