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German writer (born 1953)

Reinhard Jirgl (2009)

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

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]

In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature.[4] His 2013 novel Nichts von euch auf Erden was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.[5]

At the beginning of 2017, Jirgl withdrew completely from the public.[6] He lives in Berlin.[6]

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  7. ^ "Alfred Döblin Prize". Akademie der Künste, Berlin. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Joseph Breitbach Prize : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur". Mainz. 9 May 1980. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Reinhard Jirgl erhält Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 26 October 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Grimmelshausen-Preis geht an Reinhard Jirgl". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 26 October 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis – Reinhard Jirgl". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
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  13. ^ Thomas Rothschild: Gesamtdeutscher Steinbruch. In: Freitag, Nr. 46/2006.
  14. ^ Gunther Nickel: Deutsche Lebensläufe, polyphon erzählt. In: Die Welt, 28 February 2009.