Yannic Han Biao Federer

Yannic Han Biao Federer at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2019

Yannic Han Biao Federer (* 1986 in Breisach am Rhein ) is a German writer.

Life

Yannic Han Biao Federer grew up as the son of an Indonesian and a German in southern Baden . After graduating from high school, he studied German and Romance languages in Bonn, Florence and Oxford. He worked as a freelancer for the Badische Zeitung and the German Press Agency . He completed his studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a doctorate ; the title of his dissertation is: Mass & Apocalypse. For the narrative development of an authoritarian construction in the zombie genre . In 2018 he started working in public relations at the Literaturhaus Köln . He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Bonn.

The first stories appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including metamorphosen . For his prose text Stay Hungry , published in the magazine Karussell , he received the main prize of the Wuppertal Literature Biennale 2018, endowed with 3,000 euros.

In 2019 his novel Und alles wie aus papier maché was published by Suhrkamp Verlag , which was positively received by the critics. Federer accompanies four young people on their search for identity and orientation in a world that is becoming fragile. In the Frankfurter Rundschau , Martin Oehlen praised how cleverly arranged and closely observed Federer captures the development and alienation of some friends in Breisgau . In an article for literaturkritik.de , Sascha Seiler said: “The special highlight of the novel [...] is the art of condensation, which Federer has mastered in a playful way: in their accumulation and rapid succession, the events often seem bizarre, exaggerated and not very credible . However, if you add the time between the episodes, all the secrecy [...], you quickly notice that you are only confronted with parts of a life that were formative and groundbreaking. "

At the invitation of Hildegard Elisabeth Keller , Yannic Han Biao Federer took part in the 43rd Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt in 2019 and read his text I don't know . As part of the competition, he was awarded the 3sat prize.

Awards

2016 Prize of the Wuppertal Literature Biennale
2017 Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship from the City of Cologne
2018 Harder Literature Prize for Stay Hungry
2018 Main Prize of the Wuppertal Literature Biennale for Stay Hungry
2019 3sat Prize for Kenn ich nicht at the 43rd Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
2020 annual scholarship for writers from the Ministry of Science and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg for everything like paper mache

Publications

And everything like paper mache , Roman, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-518-46939-2

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Yannic Federer and Franziska Kopp new to the team at Literaturhaus Köln , BuchMarkt, June 26, 2018.
↑ Yannic Han Biao Federer, Masse & Apokalypse , transcript-verlag.de (accessed June 26, 2019).
↑ Bonn Germanist Yannic Han Biao Federer nominated for Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , University of Bonn, June 25, 2019.
^ Main prize to Yannic Han Biao Federer , Börsenblatt, March 22, 2018.
↑ Frankfurter Rundschau , February 26, 2019.
↑ In Search of the Lost Youth , literaturkritik.de, April 4, 2019.
↑ Full text , ort.at (accessed June 30, 2019).

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personal data
SURNAME	Federer, Yannic Han Biao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Breisach on the Rhine

[bm-2018-1] Yannic Federer and Franziska Kopp new to the team at Literaturhaus Köln , BuchMarkt, June 26, 2018.

[2] Yannic Han Biao Federer, Masse & Apokalypse , transcript-verlag.de (accessed June 26, 2019).

[3] Bonn Germanist Yannic Han Biao Federer nominated for Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , University of Bonn, June 25, 2019.

[4] Main prize to Yannic Han Biao Federer , Börsenblatt, March 22, 2018.

[5] Frankfurter Rundschau , February 26, 2019.

[6] In Search of the Lost Youth , literaturkritik.de, April 4, 2019.

[7] Full text , ort.at (accessed June 30, 2019).