Ulrich Woelk

Ulrich Woelk (born August 18, 1960 in Bonn ) is a German writer .

life and work

Ulrich Woelk grew up in Cologne in the Porz am Rhein district . From 1980 to 1987 he studied physics and philosophy at the University of Tübingen . In his diploma thesis he dealt with a topic from chaos theory . From 1987 to 1995 he worked as an astrophysicist at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of Göttingen . During this time his first literary works fall. a. his debut novel Freilang , 1990, and the novel Rückspiel , 1993. In 1991 Woelk received his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin on white dwarfs in close binary star systems .

Woelk has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 1995. He has received several grants from the German Literature Fund and the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation . His novel Freilang was awarded the Aspect Literature Prize in 1990. In 2005 he received the Thomas Valentin Literature Prize of the city of Lippstadt for his work .

Woelk held poetry and writing professorships in Tübingen and at the University of Paderborn and in 2009 was Writer in Residence at the Goethe Institute and the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg , South Africa.

His novel The Last Performance About the Assassination of a Fictional RAF Terrorist was filmed in 2004 by Matti Geschonneck under the title Mord am Meer for ZDF with Heino Ferch and Nadja Uhl in the leading roles, broadcast in spring 2005 and awarded the Critic's Prize at the Film Festival in Hamburg as well as the prize in the drama category at the New York Festival. Woelk's novels thematically revolve equally around German present and history ( lovers , return match , The Last Presentation , What Love Is ) as well as the role of the natural sciences and the natural scientist in modern times ( Die Einsamkeit des Astronomen , Einstein on the Lake ). A specialty in his work is the narrative non-fiction book Sternenklar . In it, a father and astronomer explains modern astronomy and cosmology to his daughter who has just started school.

Woelk was awarded the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2019 for his novel project For a Life .

Woelk's work includes novels, plays, radio plays and essays. His plays were a. a. performed in Berlin, Cologne and Zurich. His novels have been translated into numerous languages.

Single track

prose

• Clearance . Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1990.
  • Paperback: dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-13397-5 .
• Return leg . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1993.
  • Paperback: dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-13559-7 .
• American trip . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1996.
  • Paperback: dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13648-8 .
• Lovers . Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001.
  • Paperback: dtv, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-423-13092-9 .
• The last performance . Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002.
  • Paperback: dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-423-13253-4 .
• Einstein on the Lake. A summer story . dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-24427-5 .
• The solitude of the astronomer . Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-455-07912-8 .
• Schrödinger's bedroom . Novel. dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24561-6 .
• Starry - A little book about the sky . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-832-18060-7 .
• Joana Mandelbrot and me . Novel. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-24664-4 .
• What love is . Novel. dtv, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-24949-2 .
  • Paperback: dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-14520-6 .
• Pentecost offerings . Detective novel. dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-26048-0 .
• Night without angels . Novel. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-28111-9 .
• I see what you don't see in: Berlin Noir, HG. Thomas Wörtche , CulturBooks Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-95988-101-2 .
• My mother's summer . Novel. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73449-6 .

theatre

• Death love transfiguration . Premiere: Schauspiel Köln , 1993.
• Marienbad :: coming soon . Premiere: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich , 2009, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin , 2010.
• Close to the big city . WP: Theater Kanton Zürich , 2011.
• Homo faber . Stage version based on the novel of the same name by Max Frisch. WP: Theater Kanton Zürich , 2016.

radio play

• Passage of time . Deutschlandradio Kultur , 2002.
• Jurek's trip . Deutschlandradio Kultur , 2008.
• Four walls . WDR , 2010.
• The man in the moon . WDR , 2012.
• Stalk radio . With Jens Harzer and the instrumental soloists Annette Müller-Philippek (piano) and Ulrike Wiebelitz (violin). WDR , 2014.
• Aging 2.0 . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , 2016.
• I am here to help you . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , 2018.

Movie

• Murder on the Sea based on the novel The Last Performance , ZDF , 2004.
• Death of a schoolgirl based on the script Der Test , ZDF , 2010.

Artist book

• Sputnik - a diary , with seven original drawings by Hartmut Andryczuk and own handwritten pages, Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2008.
• The loneliness of the astronomer - fragments , with nine original drawings by Hartmut Andryczuk, Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin, 2010.
• Wernher von Braun - radio play , with eleven original drawings by Hartmut Andryczuk, Hybriden-Verlag Berlin 2012.
• Stalk-Radio-Monologue and Stalk-Waltz-Suite for violin and piano , with original drawings by Hartmut Andryczuk, Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2014.
• Apocalypse canceled - essays , with original drawings by Hartmut Andryczuk, Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2015.
• Eliza , essay, with original drawings by Hartmut Andryczuk, Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2017.

Essay and other prose

• Literature and physics . Stuttgart 1994.
• Flow conditions or are there fashions in the natural sciences? In: Neue Rundschau 3/1998, Frankfurt.
• Why write (you?) - Departure from the self . Paderborn University Speeches, Paderborn, 2005.
• Fresh and me. Identification of a reader . In: Max Frisch - Citoyen and Poet , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011.

Specialist literature

• Rydberg Atoms in Uniform Magnetic Fields: Uncovering the Transition from Regularity to Irregularity in a Quantum System . Physical Review Letters, 26, 1986.
• Spectra of the Strongly Magnetized Hydrogen Atom Close to the Ionization Threshold . In: Atomic Spectra and Collisions in External Fields II . Plenary Press New York, 1988.
• Cyclotron radiation in particle-heated atmospheres of magnetic white dwarfs . Berlin, 1991.
• Particle heated atmospheres of magnetic white dwarfs . Astronomy and Astrophysics, 256, 1992.
• Temperature structure of a particle-heated magnetic atmosphere . Astronomy and Astrophysics, 280, 1993.
• Stationary Radiation Hydrodynamics of Accreting Magnetic White Dwarfs . Astronomy and Astrophysics, 306, 1996.

literature

• Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Ulrich Woelk at perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Ulrich Woelk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Woelk receives Alfred Döblin Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on May 19, 2019
2. ↑ From one second to the other , review by Hajo Steinert on Deutschlandfunk from January 31, 2013
3. ^ Crumbling facades , review by Anne Suter, Neue Zürcher Zeitung from September 17, 2011