Christoph Peters

Christoph Peters ( born October 11, 1966 in Kalkar ) is a German writer.

Life

Christoph Peters was from 1977 to 1986 High School Student of the Catholic boarding school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck where Franz Joseph van der Grinten was one of his teachers. After Peters studied from 1988 to 1994 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, including Horst Egon Kalinowski and Günter Neusel finally as a master student of Meuser. From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a passenger controller at Frankfurt Rhein -Main Airport.

Peters was established in Mainz until 2000, since he lives in Berlin. With his wife, the writer Veronika Peters, he has a daughter (* 2003). His novel was The cloth of Night (2003) in the U.S. and translated into Chinese.

Peters is a member of PEN Center Germany.

Awards

Works

  • Heinrich Grewents work and love. Narrative. Triangle -Verlag, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-930559-26-9.
  • City country river. Novel. Frankfurt publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-627-00066-8.
  • Come and go, sometimes staying. 14 stories. Frankfurt publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-627-00085-4.
  • The cloth of night. Novel. btb, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-75090-3. Engl: The fabric of night, Nan A. Talese - Doubleday, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-51447-7
  • Heinrich Grewents work and love. Narrative. Revised edition. btb, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-75141-1.
  • A room in the house of war. Novel. btb, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-75129-2.
  • Museum Schreiber 1 Hetjens Museum. In the possession of beauty. Essay. Publisher XIM Virgenes, Dusseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-934268-46-3.
  • Mitsukos restaurant. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87273-5.
  • Visions of the letter. Tübingen poetry chair 2008 ( along with Kiran Nagarkar ), ed Dorothee Kimmich and Philipp Ostrowicz. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2009.
  • Minga enchants the world. Children's book. with pictures of Matthias Beckmann, Luchterhand 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87325-1.
  • Japan begins on the Baltic Sea - Ceramics by Jan Kollwitz. With photos by Götz Wrage. Wachholtz 2010, ISBN 978-3-529-02763-5.
  • Sven Hofestedt seeking money for enlightenment. Stories. Luchterhand, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87337-4.
  • The cat beckons to the tax collector. Essay. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2010 ( = "Good Read " No. 101 ), ISBN 978-3-941592-21-6.
  • We Kahl Beck. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87321-3.
  • Registered recording. with drawings by Matthias Beckmann.Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-069-9.
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