Ulrich Peltzer (born 9 December 1956) is a German

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

Life

Peltzer was born in

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. Starting in 1975, he studied

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. He graduated as a psychologist in 1982. Since then he has been working as a full-time author. , he has written five novels. Four of them deal with his experiences in Berlin, but one takes place in New York (''Bryant Park''). Peltzer usually rejects conventional, realistic descriptions of reality. Instead, his characters are depicted through a stream-of-consciousness technique. Peltzer lives in Berlin.

Awards

Peltzer has received several awards: *1992 Bertelsmann-award at the

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize The Festival of German-Language Literature () is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of awards are given, the major one being the Ingeborg B ...

in Klagenfurt *1996 Berliner Literaturpreis of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung *1997

Anna Seghers Prize Anna Seghers Preis is a literary prize of Germany. The prize goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who stated in her testament that the revenues from her work should be used to encourage promising young writers. The award is ...

*2000

Preis der SWR-Bestenliste Preis der SWR-Bestenliste is a literature prize awarded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Winners *1978 Gerhard Roth *1979 Ludwig Fels *1980 Otto F. Walter *1981 Peter Weiss *1982 Franz Fühmann *1983 Oskar Pastior *1984 Christa Reinig *198 ...

*2001 Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis of the city of Krefeld *2003 Bremer Literaturpreis *2008 Berliner Literaturpreis for lifetime achievement *2009/2010

Stadtschreiber von Bergen The Stadtschreiber von Bergen ('City clerk of Bergen') is an annual German literary award. The prize money is €20,000 with one year of free living in the town clerk's house in Bergen-Enkheim, Frankfurt, "An der Oberpforte 4". It was the first S ...

*2015

Franz-Hessel-Preis Franz-Hessel-Preis or Franz Hessel Prize for Contemporary Literature is a literary prize of France and Germany for French and German authors. The prize was created as a tribute to the writer and translator Franz Hessel. This Franco-German prize i ...

*2016

Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany. The Deutscher Literaturfonds (German Literature Fund) based in Darmstadt has been awarding the prize since 1983. The prize money was raised in 2019 from €20,000 to €30,000. In addi ...

Novels

*''Die Sünden der Faulheit'' (''The Sins of Laziness''), Zürich: Ammann Verlag (1987), . *''Stefan Martinez'', Zürich: Ammann Verlag (1995), . *''Alle oder keiner'' (''All or No One''), Zürich: Ammann Verlag (2000), . *''Bryant Park'', Zürich: Ammann Verlag (2002), . *''Teil der Lösung'', Zürich: Ammann Verlag (2007) . ** Published in English as ''Part of the Solution''. Calcutta, London, New York: Seagull Books (2011). University of Chicago Pr. (2019), . *''Das bessere Leben'', Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer (2015), .

Interviews

* ''Ich setze mich einfach hin und fange an'' (I simply sit down and start) – Interview, in:

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Nr. 10, 2004.

References

External links

Peltzer's biography (German)Ulrich Peltzer
in:

NRW Literatur im Netz NRW Literatur im Netz is a German internet database with short biographies of persons who have lived or worked in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphälische Literaturbüro (Westphalian office for literature) in Unna operates the biggest database ...

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