Ulrike Draesner

Ulrike Draesner (2014)

Ulrike Draesner, born 1962 in Munich, is a German author.

Life and work

The daughter of an architect, Ulrike Draesner grew up in Munich, Germany. She received a the 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, Ulrike 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-Zentrum Deutschland 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. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. During the academic year 2015/16, Ulrike 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

• Louise Glück: Wilde Iris, Munich 2008.
• Louise Glück: Averno, Munich 2007.
• Charles Simmons: Belles Lettres, Munich 2003 (translated with Klaus Modick).
• William Shakespeare: Twin spin, Göttingen 2000.
• Gertrude Stein: The first reader, Klagenfurt 2001.

Awards (selection)

• 1994 Literary Stipend 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: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preises of the City of Bad Homburg
• 2002 Preis der Literaturhäuser
• 2006 den Droste-Preis der Stadt Meersburg
• 2006 Professor of Poetry at the University of Bamberg^[3]
• 2010 Solothurner Literaturpreis
• 2012 Grenzgänger-Recherchestipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung für Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt
• 2013 Roswitha-Preis
• 2014 Joachim-Ringelnatz-Preis
• 2014 Longlist beim Deutschen Buchpreis mit Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt

References

1. ↑ Information on the Knowledge Exchange partnership award for Karen Leeder
2. ↑ News bulletin of the Faculty for Medieval and Modern Languages 24 April 2015
3. ↑ Poetikprofessur an der Universität Bamberg

Secondary sources

• Stephanie Catani, Friedhelm Marx (eds.): Familien - Geschlechter - Macht - Beziehungen im Werk Ulrike Draesners, Wallstein Verlag, 2008, 161 S. ISBN 9783835308206
• 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 201 "Ulrike Draesner", Munich 2014 (features various essays on her work)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ulrike Draesner.

• Literature by and about Ulrike Draesner in the German National Library catalogue
• Persönliche Website von Ulrike Draesner
• Ulrike Draesner bei der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
• Draesner beim Bachmannpreis
• Linksammlung der University Library of the Free University Berlin
• Ulrike Draesner at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (German)
• Kunst als Wissenschaft: Ulrike Draesner
• Ulrike Draesner im Literaturportal Bayern
• Interview zu "Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt" / Video / 7 min / LeseZeichen vom 30. April 2014 / Bayerisches Fernsehen