Hans-Ulrich Treichel

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Hans-Ulrich Treichel
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Born (1952-08-12) August 12, 1952 (age 71)
Versmold, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
Occupation Author
Germanist
Poet
Alma mater Free University of Berlin
Notable awards Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie (2007)
Deutscher Kritikerpreis (2006)
Eichendorff-Literaturpreis (2006)
Herman Hesse Award (2005)
Margarete Schrader Award (2003)
Literature Prize of the city of Bremen (1993)
Leonce-und-Lena-Preis (1985)

Hans-Ulrich Treichel (born 12 August 1952) is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success of his first novel Der Verlorene (translated into English as Lost). Treichel has also worked as an opera librettist, most prominently in collaboration with the composer Hans Werner Henze.

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Early life and education

Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold in Westphalia in 1952 and lived there until 1968. After graduating from high school in Hanau, he studied German philology, philosophy and political science at the Free University of Berlin, where he earned his degree in 1983 with a thesis on Wolfgang Koeppen. [1] He habilitated in 1993 and from 1995 to March 2018 taught as Professor for German literature at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut Leipzig. [2] (German literature institute)

Career

Treichel became known in particular through his novel The Lost (Der Verlorene), in which he set the flight of his parents from the "Eastern Territories" and the loss of their first-born son towards the end of World War II about his own childhood and youth. [3] In 1995 he became Professor at the German Literature Institute (Deutsche Literatur Institut) Leipzig and retired in 2018.

Treichel is a member of the PEN Center Germany.

Awards and honours

Works

Source: [4]

Poetry

Prose

Literary Studies, Essays

Libretti

Editions

Audiobooks

Interviews

Personal life

Treichel lives in Berlin and Leipzig.

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References

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