Reinhard Jirgl

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Jirgl in 2009

Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East Berlin) is a German writer.

Biography

Jirgl was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain.[1] He became a skilled worker for electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in electronics at Humboldt University, Berlin.[1] He made first attempts at prose during his studies in the early 1970s.[1] Since 1975 he worked as an engineer at the Academy of Sciences. He gave up his profession in 1978 to devote more time to writing.[2] He worked as a lighting and service technician at the Volksbühne in Berlin.[2] After submitting his first novel Mutter Vater Roman to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history".[2] The publication of the novel was refused.[2] Until 1989, none of his manuscripts were published.[2] Since 2009 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.[2] and he is member of the PEN Centre Germany.[3]

Jirgl received the 2003 Rheingau Literatur Preis for his collected works and in particular The Unfinished, which is about the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans and inspired by his own family's history.[4][5] In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature.[6] His 2013 novel Nichts von euch auf Erden was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.[7]

At the beginning of 2017, Jirgl withdrew completely from the public.[8] He lives in Berlin.[8]

Awards

Scholarships

Works

References

  1. "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Mitglieder – Reinhard Jirgl – Selbstvorstellung". Akademie (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  2. "Reinhard Jirgl". dtv (in German). 30 June 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  3. "Jirgl". Akademie der Künste, Berlin (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  4. "Rheingau Literatur Preis 2003 an Reinhard Jirgl". Buchmarkt (in German). 6 October 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  5. Graf, Guido (6 April 2003). "Die Unvollendeten" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  6. "Urkundentext" (PDF). Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  7. "Meyer und Jirgl für Buchpreis nominiert". Die Zeit (in German). 11 September 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  8. "Reinhard Jirgl – Autoren". Hanser Literaturverlage (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  9. "Alfred Döblin Prize". Akademie der Künste, Berlin. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  10. "Joseph Breitbach Prize : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur". Mainz. 9 May 1980. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  11. "Reinhard Jirgl erhält Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 26 October 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  12. "Grimmelshausen-Preis geht an Reinhard Jirgl". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 26 October 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  13. "Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis – Reinhard Jirgl". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  14. "Reinhard Jirgl - Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  15. Thomas Rothschild: Gesamtdeutscher Steinbruch. In: Freitag, Nr. 46/2006.
  16. Gunther Nickel: Deutsche Lebensläufe, polyphon erzählt. In: Die Welt, 28 February 2009.