Reinhard Jirgl

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Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer.

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] Since 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]

In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature.^[4] His 2013 novel Nichts von euch auf Erden was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.^[5]

At the beginning of 2017, Jirgl withdrew completely from the public.^[6] He lives in Berlin.^[6]

• 1994: Scholarship in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen^[12]
• 1995: Scholarship of the Berliner Kultursenat^[12]
• 1996: Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium^[12]
• 1997: Scholarship in Künstlerhof Schreyahn^[12]
• 1998: Scholarship of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg^[12]
• 2002: Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfond^[12]
• 2007: Scholarship in Künstlerhaus Edenkoben

• 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 Essay Das 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.
• Die Stille. Roman. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23266-2.^[14]
• Nichts von euch auf Erden. Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24127-5.
• Oben das Feuer, unten der Berg. Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25052-9.