Ulrike Draesner

Ulrike Draesner at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Ulrike Draesner (born January 20, 1962 in Munich ) is a German writer .

Life and work

Ulrike Draesner (2014)

Ulrike Draesner grew up as the daughter of an architect in Munich. After graduating from high school, she studied law, English , German and philosophy at the universities of Munich , Salamanca and Oxford with a grant from the Maximilianeum Foundation . From 1989 to 1993 she was a research assistant at the Munich Institute for German Philology. In 1992 she did her doctorate on a medieval topic. In 1993 she gave up her academic career in favor of writing. Ulrike Draesner has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1999 . In 2010 she was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since 2018 she has been Professor of German Literature and Erasmus Coordinator at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Ulrike Draesner interviewed herself in her various roles as a writer and professor of literary writing for the magazine Volltext . In it she reflects the tension between these roles and provides information about her understanding of the teachability of literary writing. She lives in Berlin and Leipzig.

Ulrike Draesner primarily writes poetry and prose and often works with visual artists and fellow writers on so-called "intermedial" projects. Draesner's texts enter into a tension with art forms such as sculpture , action art and music.

Draesner takes the position that the intelligence of a novel shows in its form. In her Frankfurt poetics lectures in the 2016/17 winter semester, she asks "what we can experience or know through literature". In 2019 Draesner won the first Gertrud Kolmar Prize with her poem Doggerland , and in 2020 she received the LiteraTour Nord Prize, endowed with 15,000 euros, by the VGH Foundation. With this decision, the jury and donor honored Ulrike Draesner for her previous work as well as for her most recently published novel Kanalschwimmer .

Works (selection)

ball lightning. 2005

Single track

Paths through narrated worlds. Intertextual references as a means of constituting meaning in Wolframs Parzival. (= Mikrokosmos. Volume 36). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-45525-9 . (Dissertation University of Munich 1992, on: Wolfram von Eschenbach , Parzival ).
Memory loops. Poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-11948-6 ; Revised version: Luchterhand, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-62132-6 .
Anise-o-trop. Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1997.
Blueprint. Novel. People and World, Berlin 1998.
Travel under the eyelids. Stories. Ritter, Klagenfurt 1999.
cells hired for the night. Poems. Luchterhand, Munich 2001.
Dowry. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2002.
Hot dogs. Stories. Luchterhand, Munich 2004.
ball lightning. Poems. Luchterhand, Munich 2005.
Games. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2005.
Beautiful women read. About Ingeborg Bachmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Friederike Mayröcker, Virginia Woolf and many others Luchterhand, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-62121-0 .
touched places. Poems. Luchterhand, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-87268-1 .
Preference. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87294-0 .
Being correct. Stories in pairs. Stories. Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87324-4 .
Secret heroes. About the Nibelungenlied, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean-Henri Fabre, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Karl Valentin, Gottfried Benn, Tania Blixen, Hans Joachim Schädlich, Gerd-Peter Eigner, Gerhard Falkner. Essays. Luchterhand, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87373-2 .
Seven leaps from the edge of the world. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87372-5 .
My Hiddensee. mare, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86648-213-5 .
The fifth dimension. Munich speeches on poetry. Edited by Holger Pils and Frieder von Ammon. Lyrik Kabinett , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-938776-38-4 .
Nibelungen. Visitation. with the illustrations by Carl Otto Czeschka . Reclam, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-011005-8 .
Happy aging. Ulrike Draesner tells about her menopause . 2 CDs, Suppose Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86385-011-1 .
A woman gets older. A departure. Penguin Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-328-60002-2 .
Grammar of ghosts. Frankfurt poetics lectures. Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3150111505 .
Channel float . Novel. mareverlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86648-288-3 .
Schwitters . Novel. Penguin Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-328-60126-5 .

Editions

Seduction. Novellas from Goethe to Musil. Goldmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-442-07645-5 .

Literary translations

Louise Glück : Wilde Iris. Munich 2008.
Louise Glück: Averno. Munich 2007.
Charles Simmons : Belles Lettres. With Klaus Modick . Munich 2003.
William Shakespeare : Twin spin. Göttingen 2000.
Gertrude Stein : The first reader. Klagenfurt 2001.

Awards (selection)

1994 literary scholarship from the city of Munich
1995 Promotion Prize for the Leonce and Lena Prize
1997 Foglio Prize for Young Literature
1997 Bavarian State Prize for Literature
2001 Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
2001 Award of the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Price of the city of Bad Homburg
2002 Prize of the Literature Houses
2005 longlist at the German Book Prize with Games
2006 Droste Prize of the City of Meersburg
2006 professorship in poetry at the University of Bamberg
2010 Solothurn Literature Prize
2012 Cross-border commuter research grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation for Seven Jumps from the Edge of the World
2013 Roswitha Prize
2014 Joachim Ringelnatz Prize
2014 Longlist German Book Prize with Seven Jumps from the Edge of the World
2015 Usedomer Literature Prize for Seven Jumps from the Edge of the World
2016 Orphil Poetry Prize for Subsong
2016 Nicolas Born Prize
2016/2017 Frankfurt Poetics Lecturer
2017 City Clerk Helsinki , Finland
2019 Gertrud Kolmar Prize
2020 Prize of the LiteraTour North
2020 German Prize for Nature Writing , together with Esther Kinsky

literature

Michael König: Poetics of Terror. Politically motivated violence in contemporary German literature. de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-2987-7 . (Dissertation University of Münster (Westphalia) 2014, including an interview with Ulrike Draesner: "I never wanted to understand terrorism." Ulrike Draesner on her novel "Spiele" (2005), which describes the events of the attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich is the focus, pp. 389–395).
Ulrike Draesner. edited by Susanna Brogi, Anna Ertel and Evi Zemanek. In: Text + Criticism . Issue 201, January 2014, ISBN 978-3-86916-341-3 .
Ulrike Vedder : Ulrike Draesner: dowry. In: literature and knowledge. An interdisciplinary manual. edited by Roland Borgards, Harald Neumeyer, Nicolas Pethes and Yvonne Wübben. Metzler, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02371-1 , pp. 415-420.
Anna Alissa Ertel: bodies, brains, genes. Poetry and natural science with Ulrike Draesner and Durs Grünbein (= linguae & litterae . Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022910-3 . (Dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau 2008).
Stephanie Catani, Friedhelm Marx (ed.): Families - Genders - Power - Relationships in Ulrike Draesner's work (= Poiesis . Volume 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0342-3 .
Cornelia Saxe: "Beautiful women read and write - The Ulrike Draesner Homestory". In: The ceiling of civilization is thin - encounters between women writers. Maike Stein (ed.). Ulrike Helmer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-89741-244-6 , pp. 21-32.
Roman Luckscheiter: Homeless. Ulrike Draesner differentiates between humans and bees. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 132, June 11, 2007, p. 36. (Review by: Ulrike Draesner: Zauber im Zoo. Four speeches on origins and literature (= Göttinger Sudelblätter ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0129- 0 ).