Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974 in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
) is a German writer and former judge.
Biography
Her first book was ''Adler und Engel'' (translated into English as ''
Eagles and Angels
''Eagles and Angels'' (german: Adler und Engel) is a 2001 novel by the German writer Juli Zeh.
Reception
Josh Lacey wrote in ''The Guardian'': "Zeh's style is always enjoyable. She writes brittle little sentences, trying to shock and often succ ...
'' by Christine Slenczka), which won the 2002
Deutscher Bücherpreis for best
debut novel
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. She traveled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book ''Die Stille ist ein Geräusch''.
Her other books are ''Das Land der Menschen'', ''Schilf'' (translated into English as ''
Dark Matter
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'' by Christine Lo), ''Alles auf dem Rasen'', ''Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde'', ''Spieltrieb'', ''Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik'', ''Nullzeit'' and ''Corpus Delicti'' (translated into English as ''
The Method'' by Sally-Ann Spencer).
Zeh lived in
Leipzig
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from 1995, and currently resides outside Berlin. Zeh studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches
Staatsexamen
The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, teachers, pharmacists, food chemists, psychotherapists and jurists (i.e., lawyers, judges, publi ...
– comparable equivalent to the U.S.
bar exam
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Australia
Administering bar exams is the responsibility of the bar associat ...
– in 2003, and holds a doctorate in international law from Universität Saarbrücken.
Since January 2019, she is an honorary judge at the constitutional court of the state of
Brandenburg
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.
She also has a degree from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig.
Zeh was one of the first signers of the
Open letter on the German position regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine in April 2022, who demanded not to support Ukraine with arms in order to "prevent a third world war".
Zeh is married and has two children.
Bibliography
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References
Further reading
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External links
An interview about her social commitment, recent translated books and her recent play, ''Corpus Delicti'' ''
Trouw
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'', September 2008
Interview about ''Corpus Delicti'', the role of state observation and civil disobedience April 2011
Article about the translation of ''Corpus Delicti'' as ''The Method'' April 2012
in:
NRW Literatur im Netz
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1974 births
Living people
Studienstiftung alumni
German women novelists
21st-century German novelists
21st-century German women writers
Scientists from Bonn
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany