Jens Sparschuh
Jens Sparschuh ( born May 14, 1955 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a German writer.
Life
Jens Sparschuh grew up in East Berlin. He passed his Abitur in Halle ( Saale) and studied from 1973 to 1978 Philosophy and Logic in Leningrad. From 1978 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the Humboldt University, where he in 1983 became a Doctor of Philosophy. Since then he works as a freelance writer in Berlin. He was involved in the civil rights movement of the GDR and after the turn at times a member of the "New Forum ". In the nineties, he held several guest lectures in the United States.
Jens Sparschuh is the author of novels, often on topics of German history and literature, as well as essays, poems, and radio plays. For a column in the literature part of the Tagesspiegel, he also writes once a month about the latest reviews audiobooks.
Jens Sparschuh is a member of the PEN center of Germany.
Prizes and awards
- Anna Seghers Prize, 1988
- Hörspielpreis the War Blind, 1990
- Ernst Reuter Prize 1990
- Bremen Literature Prize, 1996
- Calw Hermann Hesse Scholarship, 1999
Works
- Epistemological and methodological studies on the heuristic expression of propositional proof terms, Dissertation, Berlin 1983
- Forest Windwärts, Berlin 1985
- The big coup, Berlin 1987
- Plunge, Berlin 1989
- Indwendig, Winsen / Luhe 1990
- The snow man, Cologne 1993
- Parzival Unlucky, Zurich ( among others ) 1994
- The representatives seminar, Cologne 1995
- The indoor fountains, Cologne 1995 French: Fontaine d' appartement, 1999
- Italian: Il venditore di Fontane, 2000
- Russian: Komnatnyi fontan, 2004
Editorship
- Friedrich von Schiller: The Ghost-Seer, Berlin 1984
- Friedrich Hebbel: lice of reason, Berlin 1987