Peter Stephan Jungk (born December 19, 1952, in

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) is an American German-speaking novelist.

Life

Jungk is the son of futurologist

Robert Jungk Robert Jungk (; born ''Robert Baum'', also known as ''Robert Baum-Jungk''; 11 May 1913 – 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Life Jungk was bor ...

. He grew up in the United States and after 1957 in Vienna. From 1968 to 1970 he attended the Rudolf-Steiner-School in Berlin. He lived in Salzburg from 1970 till he took his ''

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'' in 1972. In 1973 Jungk worked with the theater of Basel as an assistant director. From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. From 1976 to 1979 he lived in Salzburg again. In 1979 he worked with

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on filming Handke's '' The Left-Handed Woman'' (''Die linkshändige Frau'')as an assistant director. In 1980 Jungk attended a

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school in Jerusalem. He moved back to Vienna in 1981. Since 1988 he is living in Paris with his wife, photographer . In 1994 their daughter Adah Dylan was born. Jungk is an author of novels, essays and scripts. In some cases he also directed the movie version of his own works. Besides that he translates from English. In January 2013 the opera '' The Perfect American'' by Philip Glass, based on Jungk's novel ', premiered at the

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in Madrid. Jungk is a member of the Austrian

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Awards

* 2001: * 2011: Buchpreis der Salzburger Wirtschaft

Publications

As author

* '. Frankfurt am Main 1978 * '. Frankfurt am Main 1981 * ''Franz Werfel'', Frankfurt am Main 1987; translated as ''

Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian- Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of ''The For ...

: A Life in Prague, Vienna and Hollywood'' (1990) * ''Tigor''. Frankfurt am Main 1991 * '. Heidelberg 1994 (with Lillian Birnbaum) * '. Munich 1996 * '. (''The Inheritance'') Munich 1999 * '. (''The Perfect American'') Stuttgart 2001 * ' (''Crossing the Hudson'') Stuttgart 2005 * ' (The electric heart), Vienna 2011 * ' (The dark rooms of Edith Tudor Hart – a life's stories), Frankfurt, 2015

As editor

* ''Das Franz-Werfel-Buch'', Frankfurt am Main 1986

As translator

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: '. Frankfurt am Main 1989 *

Christopher Durang Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s. ...

: '. Frankfurt am Main 1987 * Christopher Durang: '. Frankfurt am Main 1989 * Raymond Fitzsimons: ''Edmund Kean''. Frankfurt am Main 1987 *

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: ''Hotel Orpheu''. Frankfurt am Main 1994 *

Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel '' The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' and for the plays ''Our Town'' and '' The Skin of Our Teeth'' — ...

: '. Frankfurt am Main 1999 * Thornton Wilder: '. Frankfurt am Main 1999 * Thornton Wilder: '. Frankfurt am Main 1999 * Thornton Wilder: '. Frankfurt am Main 1999

Documentaries

* ''Franz Werfel – '' (ZDF/ORF, 1988) * ''

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– '' (ZDF/ORF, 1989) * '' – '' (ZDF/ORF, 1992) * '' André Previn – '' (Dor-Film, 2008) * ''Tracking

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'' (peartree-entertainment, 2016)

References

External links

* *
Jungk's homepage
at the University of Alabama

by

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, ''

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'', September 29, 2008
The Perfect American / by Peter Stephan Jungk, Michael Hofmann (Translation)
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