Michael Kumpfmüller

Michael Kumpfmüller ( born July 21, 1961 in Munich) is a German writer.

Life

After studying German and history in Tübingen, Vienna and Berlin, where he earned his doctorate, he worked in the nineties as a freelance journalist for several daily and weekly newspapers and since 1999 has been a freelance writer.

His first novel Hampel alignment was pre- printed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and discussed in the German media, some of them very controversial. Translations appeared in the Netherlands, France, Finland, Great Britain and the United States. 2003 was succeeded by his Roman thirst.

In the 2005 election campaign for the parliamentary elections in Germany, he joined the initiated by Günter Grass election initiative in favor of the former red-green government. From April to November 2006, he held for six Lower Saxon literature offices under www.netznotizen.de current events in politics and society position.

Kumpfmüller is married to Eva Manasseh and lives in Berlin.

Awards

In 1993, Kumpfmüller the Walter Serner Prize for the short story The accomplice. In 2007 he was awarded for the novel manuscript of message to all the Alfred Döblin Prize. 2013, the Prix Jean Monnet, he was awarded the Salon de la Littérature Européenne de Cognac. Kumpfmüller felt personally ill-treated in the award event in Cognac and described the in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He had to leave enlighten the working as a publishing editor in France Martina Dorff guard over a few cultural differences and practices then.

Works

• The Battle of Stalingrad - Metamorphoses of a German myth dissertation Munich in 1995, Diss 95.6128
• Hampel escapes, Roman. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2000. As Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-14846-4.
• Thirst, novel, Cologne 2003
• Message to all, novel, Köln 2008
• The glory of life, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2011 ISBN 978-3-462-04326-6.