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] From 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]
1998: Scholarship of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg[12]
2002: Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfond[12]
2007: Scholarship in Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
Works
Mutter Vater Roman. Aufbau, Berlin/Weimar 1990. ISBN 3-351-01311-6.
Uberich. Protokollkomödie in den Tod. Jassmann, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-926975-03-2.
Im offenen Meer. [Schichtungsroman]. Luchterhand, Hamburg/Zürich 1991, ISBN 3-630-86769-3.
together with Andrzej Madela: Zeichenwende. Kultur im Schatten posttotalitärer Mentalität. Bublies, Koblenz 1993, ISBN 3-926584-24-6.
Das obszöne Gebet. Totenbuch. Jassmann, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-926975-04-0.
Abschied von den Feinden. novel. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-446-18010-9.
Hundsnächte. novel. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-446-19118-6.
Die atlantische Mauer. novel. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-446-19118-6.
Genealogie des Tötens. Trilogie. Hanser, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-446-20171-8.
Gewitterlicht. stories, with the EssayDas poetische Vermögen des alphanumerischen Codes in der Prosa. In: Edition Einst und Jetzt Band 3. revonnah, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-934818-43-9.
Die Unvollendeten. novel. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-446-20271-4.
Abtrünnig. Roman aus der nervösen Zeit. Hanser, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446206-58-2. (Paperback: dtv 13639, Munich/Vienna 2008 ISBN 978-3-423-13639-6.)[13]
Land und Beute. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1996 bis 2006. Edition Akzente, Hanser, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23009-5.