Der Sommer ihres Lebens by Thomas von Steinaecker

He has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature since 2018. He has won many awards including the Aspekte Literature Prize, the Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, and the Carl Amery Literature Prize. His radio plays and features are mostly dedicated to literary figures and composers such as Arno Schmidt, Heinrich Böll, Paul Celan, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His films include »Richard Strauss und seine Heldinnen«, which won the International Classical Music Award as well as an ECHO Klassik Award, and »Leonard Bernstein – Das zerrissene Genie«, which received the Golden Prague at the 2018 International Television Festival. Von Steinaecker dramatized Roger Willemsen’s last text »Wer wir waren« for a one-off performance at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in 2017. Das Buch der gescheiterten Kunstwerke« employs small essays to explore the reasons why novels, films, paintings, and compositions by well-known artists were not completed. His most recent non-fiction book ✾nde offen. He tries to preserve the knowledge and art of the lost civilization until the group finally sets off on a dangerous journey westward to a supposedly better life.

In this dystopia, the teenager Heinz grows up in the mountains amongst a small group of survivors after the decline of humanity. His futuristic fifth novel ✽ie Verteidigung des Paradieses«, which was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize, uses post-apocalyptic imagery.

In his Leipzig Book Fair Prize-nominated fourth novel, ✽as Jahr, in dem ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und anfing zu träumen«, he tells the story of an insurance saleswoman who encounters a supposed revenant of her grandmother who runs an amusement park in Russia, blurring the lines between reality and fairground fantasy. The novel was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.

The novel is a family saga that spans three generations while asking whether it is even possible to tell the true story of a family. He worked as a freelance journalist and published several short stories during his studies.Īfter the first broadcast of his debut radio play »Meine Tonbänder sind mein Widerstand« on Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2007, he published his acclaimed first novel »Wallner beginnt zu fliegen« the same year. He studied German, English, and American literature in Munich and Cincinnati and received his doctorate in 2006. The German writer, film director, and journalist Thomas von Steinaecker was born in Traunstein, Bavaria in 1977.

Der Sommer ihres Lebens by Thomas von Steinaecker