Ulrike Draesner

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Ulrike Draesner
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Draesner in 2018
Born1962

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

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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 Stiftung Maximilianeum  [ de ]. She read Law, English and German literature as well as Philosophy in Munich, Salamanca, and Oxford. She worked as a lecturer at the 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 was 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]

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Single author titles
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Literary translations

Awards (selection)

References

  1. "Information on the Knowledge Exchange partnership award for Karen Leeder".
  2. "Ulrike Draesner in Oxford | Mediating Modern Poetry". mmp.mml.ox.ac.uk.
  3. "2006 – Ulrike Draesner - Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Friedhelm Marx)". www.uni-bamberg.de.
  4. "Nicolas-Born-Preise 2016 / Ulrike Draesner und Joachim Meyerhoff ausgezeichnet". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  5. "Georg Dehio-Buchpreis". Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa e.V. (in German). 2024-03-25. Retrieved 2024-03-25.

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