Ulrike Draesner (born 1962 in

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) is a German author. She was awarded the 2016

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Life and work

The daughter of an architect, Draesner grew up in Munich, Germany. She received a Bavarian State scholarship for the best performing student at Gymnasium (Sixth Form) from the . She read Law, English and German literature as well as Philosophy in

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, and

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. She worked as a lecturer Institute for German Philology from 1989 to 1993. In 1992, she received her doctorate for a dissertation on the Middle High German romance

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. In 1993, Draesner quit her academic career in order to work as a full-time author. She has lived in Berlin since 1994, writing both poetry and prose. Her novel ''Vorliebe'' (2010) is a romance novel. In 2014, her groundbreaking novel ''Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt'' was published and a celebrated success. Draesner frequently collaborates in cross-media projects with other artists and merges literature with sculpting, performing arts, and music. She became a member of the

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in 1999. In 2010, she was elected to a Fellowship at the

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. She is a regular guest at international literary festivals, and currently (2018) serves on the prize jury at the Irseer Pegasus. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. During the academic year 2015/16, Draesner will be a visiting fellow at

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, working with Karen Leeder, leader of the Mediating Modernity project, on topics of bilingualism, poetry translation and negotiating identity as a Writer in residence at the Faculty for Medieval and Modern Languages at the

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. A symposium on her and her work is planned for April 2016.

Publications

; Single author titles * ''Wege durch erzählte Welten. Intertextuelle Verweise als Mittel der Bedeutungskonstitution in Wolframs Parzival'', dissertation, Frankfurt am Main .a.1993. * ''Gedächtnisschleifen'', poetry, Frankfurt am Main 1995, revised edition Munich 2008. * ''Anis-o-trop'', poetry, Hamburg 1997. * ''Lichtpause'', novel, poetry 1998. * ''Reisen unter den Augenlidern'', short stories, Klagenfurt 1999. * ''für die nacht geheuerte zellen'', poetry, München 2001. * ''Bläuliche Sphinx'', Berlin 2002 (with Lothar Seruset). * ''Mitgift'', novel, Munich 2002. * ''Hot Dogs'', short stories, Munich 2004. * ''kugelblitz'', poetry, Munich 2005. * ''Spiele'', novel, Munich 2005. * ''Schöne Frauen lesen'', essays, Luchterhand, Munich 2007, . * ''berührte orte'', poetry, Luchterhand, Munich 2008, . * ''Vorliebe'', novel, Luchterhand, Munich 2010, . * ''Richtig liegen. Geschichten in Paaren'', short stories, Luchterhand, Munich 2011, . * ''Heimliche Helden. Über Heinrich von Kleist, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Gottfried Benn, Karl Valentin u.v.a.'', Luchterhand, Munich 2013, . * ''Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt'', novel, Luchterhand, Munich 2014, . ; Editor * ''Verführung – Novellen von Goethe bis Musil'', Munich 1994 ; Literary translations *

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: ''Wilde Iris'', Munich 2008. * Louise Glück: ''Averno'', Munich 2007. *

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: ''Belles Lettres'', Munich 2003 (translated with

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). *

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: ''Twin spin'', Göttingen 2000. *

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: ''The first reader'', Klagenfurt 2001.

Awards (selection)

* 1994 Literary Scholararship awarded by the City of Munich * 1995 Advancement award: Leonce-und-Lena-Preis * 1997 Foglio-Preis für Junge Literatur * 1997 Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis für Literatur * 2001 Award Künstlerhaus Edenkoben * 2001 Advancement award:

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of the City of Bad Homburg * 2002

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* 2006 Droste-Preis der Stadt Meersburg * 2006 Professor of Poetry at the

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* 2010

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* 2012 Grenzgänger-Recherchestipendium der

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für ''Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt'' * 2013

Roswitha-Preis The Roswitha Prize (german: Roswitha-Preis) is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women. The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim. In 1998 it received its moder ...

* 2014 * 2014 Longlist beim Deutschen Buchpreis mit ''Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt'' * 2016

References

External links

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