Peter Wawerzinek

Peter Wawerzinek (birth name Peter Runkel, born September 28, 1954 in Rostock ) is a German writer.

Life

Peter Wawerzinek is the son of a single mother, who left him and his younger sister one years in 1956 in her apartment in Rostock and moved to the West. After they found the children in the completely dilapidated apartment, Wawerzinek spent separated from his sister for ten years in state children's homes until he was adopted by a teacher couple and grew up in various places on the Baltic Sea. After schooling Wawerzinek trained as a textile artist. He did his military service in the NVA; In 1978 he moved to East Berlin. There he began to study at the Art Academy Berlin -Weissensee, but he dropped out after two years. Subsequently, he worked in various jobs, including as a postman and waiter at the Mitropa. At the same time he was known as a performance artist and impromptu poet active and under the name " ScHappy " in the East Berlin literary scene in Berlin -Prenzlauer Berg already in the eighties, where he performed, among others, in the legendary neighborhood project Hirschhof. From 1988 to 1990 he undertook together with Matthias Baader Holst a kind of tour of the GDR. He is a member of PEN Center Germany since 1998.

Peter Wawerzinek published after the fall of the first a collection of parodies of GDR literature, then quirky, experimental prose texts in a breathless prose about an outsider of GDR society. Other works Wawerzinek are strongly autobiographical and have the home region of the author - Mecklenburg- Vorpommern - on the topic. Wawerzinek also writes plays and journalistic texts.

Prizes and awards

Wawerzinek in 1991 received the Bertelsmann scholarship at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the German Critics Prize for Literature, 1993, a grant from the German Literature Fund and the Radio Drama Award of the Academy of the Arts ( Berlin) for Nix. He was also a fellow of the Heinrich- Böll -Haus in Langenbroich (Eifel ) and received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts in Wewelsfleth. The text Small earthquake in 2007, he won the "wolfgang lake literary competition " and was three months " Seeschreiber " of Lake Wolfgang. In 2010 he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his novel extract Rabenliebe. The novel itself came on the shortlist for the German Book Prize.

Works

Print editions

  • Once upon a time ... - parodies of GDR literature, Berlin 1990
  • Nix, novel, Berlin 1990
  • The 6 tons emptying, Berlin 1990
  • Moppel Schappiks tattoos, Berlin 1991
  • The child that I was, Berlin 1994
  • My Babylon, Berlin 1995
  • Fallada I cringe, Berlin 1996 (together with Klaus Zylla )
  • Perhaps Peter comes over yet, Leipzig 1997
  • Café conspiracy, Berlin 1998
  • Olive is arsenic or Beijing deserts, Berlin 1998 (together with Klaus Bendler )
  • Scurvy, Augsburg 1998 ( together with Moritz Götze )
  • The Galionsfigurenschnitzer, Berlin 2000 (along with Tim von Veh )
  • The sea itself is less, prose, Berlin 2000
  • The war is still lost? , Rhine Bach 2001 ( together with Bodo Korsig )
  • Exclusion zone pure Germany. Scenes from a summer trip, Berlin 2001
  • My Salzkammergut. From sea voyages and voyages, essays, Vienna, St. Wolfgang 2008
  • The lack of interest, rabbits Verlag, Hall 2010, ISBN 978-3-939468-53-0
  • Rabenliebe, Galiani, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-020-4 as an audio book: read by Michael Redhead, argon book, Berlin 2011, 619 min, 9 CD.

Radio plays

Secondary literature

  • Andreas Erb (Ed. ): From Mecklenburg to Prenzlauer Berg: Peter Wawerzinek. Food: plain text Verlag 2005 ISBN 3-89861-343-7. .
  • The best of 2010. Klagenfurt texts ( Piper, Munich. 224 pp. ) published in September 2010.
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