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https://lutzseiler.de/. Lutz Seiler (born 8 June 1963 in Gera, Thuringia) is a German poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the most important German poets living today, [2] he is the author of numerous books of poetry, prose, and essays, and gained national attention for his debut novel Kruso. In 2023 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize ...
Oct 20, 2024 · Lutz Seiler’s novel “Star 111” is a braided tale that follows both Carl’s search for himself in the burgeoning Berlin counterculture and his parents’ struggle to find their footing as ...
Nov 28, 2023 · Photo: Heike Steinweg / Suhrkamp Verlag. Celebrated genre-crossing author and Büchner Prize winner Lutz Seiler on his three new English translations, the literary significance of objects, and what it takes to write both poetry and prose. This year, the Büchner Prize – Germany’s most prestigious literature award – was given to Lutz ...
Feb 26, 2023 · And Other Stories will publish near-simultaneously in UK in September and November this year three books in three genres by Lutz Seiler. Namely: Seiler’s prize-winning second novel Star 111, a volume of essays entitled In Case of Loss and his era-defining poetry collection Pitch & Glint.
edit data. Lutz Seiler grew up in the Langenberg district of Gera, Thuringia (former East Germany). After training as a skilled building construction worker, he worked as a bricklayer and carpenter. During his national service in the National People’s Army (NVA) of the DDR, he started to take an interest in literature and wrote his first poems.
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It took Lutz Seiler, born in East Germany, thirty years to give to the moment [of the Fall of the Berlin Wall] the full richness of fertile and ambiguous human experience. With its ample narrative and powerful imagination, Star 111 is the “Wenderoman” par excellence, the great novel of the “turn”, as German reunification is called.’
978-3-518-42925-9. Star 111 (German: Stern 111) is a 2020 novel by the German writer Lutz Seiler. It follows the East German bricklayer and student Carl Bischoff during his everyday life in Berlin at the time of the German reunification. [1][2][3][4] The book received the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. [5]
