Ulrike Draesner
Draesner in 2018
Born1962

Ulrike Draesner (born 1962 in Munich) is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize.

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 Stiftung Maximilianeum. She read Law, English and German literature as well as Philosophy in Munich, Salamanca, and Oxford. 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 Parzival.

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 PEN Centre Germany in 1999. In 2010, she was elected to a Fellowship at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. 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 New College, Oxford, working with Karen Leeder, leader of the Mediating Modernity project,[1] on topics of bilingualism, poetry translation and negotiating identity as a Writer in residence at the Faculty for Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.[2] 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 [u.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, ISBN 978-3-630-62121-0.
  • berührte orte, poetry, Luchterhand, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-87268-1.
  • Vorliebe, novel, Luchterhand, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87294-0.
  • Richtig liegen. Geschichten in Paaren, short stories, Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87324-4.
  • Heimliche Helden. Über Heinrich von Kleist, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Gottfried Benn, Karl Valentin u.v.a., Luchterhand, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87373-2.
  • Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt, novel, Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87372-5.
Editor
  • Verführung – Novellen von Goethe bis Musil, Munich 1994
Literary translations

Awards (selection)

References

Further reading

  • Stephanie Catani, Friedhelm Marx (eds.): Familien – Geschlechter – Macht – Beziehungen im Werk Ulrike Draesners, Wallstein Verlag, 2008, 161 S. ISBN 978-3-8353-0820-6
  • Cornelia Saxe: Schöne Frauen lesen und schreiben – Die Ulrike-Draesner-Homestory, In: „Dünn ist die Decke der Zivilisation – Begegnungen zwischen Schriftstellerinnen“, Maike Stein (eds.), Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Frankfurt/M., 2007, S. 21 – 32, ISBN 978-3-89741-244-6
  • Susanna Brogi (et al.), Text+Kritik, no. 201, "Ulrike Draesner", Munich 2014 (features various essays on her work)
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