Reinhard Jirgl

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Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in

Biography

Jirgl was born in

In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature.^[4] His 2013 novel Nichts von euch auf Erden was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.^[5]

At the beginning of 2017, Jirgl withdrew completely from the public.^[6] He lives in Berlin.^[6]

Awards

Scholarships

• 1994: Scholarship in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen^[12]
• 1995: Scholarship of the Berliner Kultursenat^[12]
• 1996: Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium^[12]
• 1997: Scholarship in Künstlerhof Schreyahn^[12]
• 1998: Scholarship of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg^[12]
• 2002: Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfond^[12]
• 2007: Scholarship in Künstlerhaus Edenkoben

Works

• Mutter Vater Roman. Aufbau, Berlin/Weimar 1990.
  ISBN 3-351-01311-6
  .
• Uberich. Protokollkomödie in den Tod. Jassmann, Frankfurt am Main 1990,
  ISBN 3-926975-03-2
  .
• Im offenen Meer. [Schichtungsroman]. Luchterhand, Hamburg/Zürich 1991,
  ISBN 3-630-86769-3
  .
• together with
  ISBN 3-926584-24-6
  .
• Das obszöne Gebet. Totenbuch. Jassmann, Frankfurt am Main 1993,
  ISBN 3-926975-04-0
  .
• ISBN 3-446-18010-9
  .
• Hundsnächte. novel. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 1997,
  ISBN 3-446-19118-6
  .
• Die atlantische Mauer. novel. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 2000,
  ISBN 3-446-19118-6
  .
• Genealogie des Tötens.
  ISBN 3-446-20171-8
  .
• Gewitterlicht. stories, with the
  ISBN 3-934818-43-9
  .
• ISBN 3-446-20271-4
  .
• ISBN 978-3-423-13639-6.)^[13]
• Land und Beute. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1996 bis 2006. Edition Akzente, Hanser, Munich 2008,
  ISBN 978-3-446-23009-5
  .
• Die Stille. Roman. Hanser, Munich 2009,
  ISBN 978-3-446-23266-2.^[14]
• Nichts von euch auf Erden. Hanser, Munich 2013,
  ISBN 978-3-446-24127-5
  .
• Oben das Feuer, unten der Berg. Hanser, Munich 2016,
  ISBN 978-3-446-25052-9
  .