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The Time-Balance

Stories
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The Time-Balance / Die Zeitwaage
Stories
Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2010
Whether in the story of a play-acted shooting or in the everyday drama of a real-life separation – all the texts in The Time-Balance are about decisive turning-points, about the grotesque quality of life, and our often futile endeavours to alter the course of things.


»I go to the watchmaker Walinski once a week to put my watch on the timing machine. Ever since I discovered that I’m actually a dreamer (»a damn dreamer«, as my father always used to say), I am...
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Whether in the story of a play-acted shooting or in the everyday drama of a real-life separation – all the texts in The Time-Balance are about decisive turning-points, about the grotesque quality of life, and our often futile endeavours to alter the course of things.


»I go to the watchmaker Walinski once a week to put my watch on the timing machine. Ever since I discovered that I’m actually a dreamer (»a damn dreamer«, as my father always used to say), I am completely at peace; I am at peace and ease and only do what I want to. Things that I know are good for me.«

With the composure of an acrobat, this dreamer wanders Berlin after the fall of the wall. Of the things that come into his possession in the process is a unique watch whose ticks tell him the tale of what has happened to him.
Lutz Seiler’s long-anticipated new book contains thirteen other stories along side Turksib, which was awarded the Ingeborg Bachman Prize. Whether the stories relate a staged shooting or a real separation from the drama of daily life, all the works in The Time-Balance revolve around decisive turning points, the grotesque in life and our often futile struggle for another path.

»Vast, passionately poetic tenderness in every line of this nostalgic tale. ... A grandiose and original debut that sets itself clearly apart from the insipid, commercially successful self-centred prose of many young authors.« sandammeer.at

As a writer of prose fiction, too, the poet Seiler proves – like the clockmaker in The Time Balance – to be a gifted precision mechanic of language.« Wiener Zeitung

»[...] of well-nigh masterly perfection« »Lutz Seiler is a magnificently poised narrator of the collateral damage inflicted on the soul by the communist system.« Die Zeit Literaturbeilage

»Lutz Seiler has long been considered one of the most important German poets. [...] The appearance of these 13 short stories now places him indis-putably among the leading writers of prose.« Mannheimer Morgen

»Vast, passionately poetic tenderness in every line of this nostalgic tale. ... A grandiose and original debut that sets itself clearly apart from the insipid, commercially successful self-centred prose of many young authors.« sandammeer.at

As a writer of prose fiction, too, the poet Seiler proves – like the clockmaker in The Time Balance – to be a gifted precision mechanic of language.« Wiener Zeitung

»[...] of well-nigh masterly perfection«...
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2009, 284 pages
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The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2023 to Lutz Seiler.
Nachricht
The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2023 to Lutz Seiler.

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Nachricht
The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2023 to Lutz Seiler.

Persons

Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason and a carpenter and completed his studies in 1990. Since 1997, he has been the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Museum. He was writer-in-residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and at the German Academy in Rome. His many prizes include the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Bremen Prize for Literature, the Fontane Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, and most recently the Georg Büchner Prize.

Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

script for blind giants
Year of Publication: 2021
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2021
After publishing two novels, Lutz Seiler returns to the home port of poems. Back to the voices of childhood, to the Waldstadion, to the »bone park« and to the question of where our...
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Sweden (Edda)

Star 111
Year of Publication: 2020
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2020

»November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a secret dream they’ve harboured all their lives, set out for life in the West....

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UK & Commonwealth (And Other Stories),  USA & Canada (NYRB), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Verdier), Italy (Utopia), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Norstedts), Bulgaria (Black Flamingo), Lithuania (Hieronymus), Slovenia (Sodobnost), Greece (Patakis)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Entire Radio Readings (rbb & NDR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Kruso
Year of Publication: 2014
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2014
After the accident, Edgar Bendler decides to step out of his own life. He becomes a dishwasher on Hiddensee, that legendary island which is said to lie outside of time and »beyond the...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Scribe), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Catalan rights (Club Editor), Russia (Text), France (Verdier), Italy (Del Vecchio), Netherlands (Meridiaan / Dutch Media Group), Denmark (Batzer & Co.), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland (Jagiellonian UP), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Romania (RAO), Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Slovenia (Sodobnost), Turkey (Bence), Greece (Patakis), Macedonia (Goten), Armenia (Antares)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Serbia (Laguna)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Entire Radio Reading (NDR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg + Club Bertelsmann)

in field latin
Year of Publication: 2010
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2010
in field latin or in other words: to exist in a field of language, and at the same time explore a landscape’s legends, how they come to one’s ears, in walks, in whispers, in silence....
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English world rights (Seagull), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio), Sweden (selection, Faethon)

Turksib
Year of Publication: 2008
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2008
Lutz Seiler first came to be known thanks to his two poetry collections, pech & blende (2000) and vierzig kilometer nacht (2003). For the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize in 2007 he offered up his first short story, Turksib, and was subsequently declared the winner.

  Ilma Rakusa describes the text’s allure: »With poetic-grotesque...
In Case of Loss
Year of Publication: 2004
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2004

»In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler’s non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry....

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English world rights (And Other Stories), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio)

forty kilometres of night
Year of Publication: 2003
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2003

Lutz Seiler‘s poems, created between 2000 and 2003, undertake a journey through forty kilometres of night, they lead out of the native landscape, destroyed by uranium mining, depicted in pech...

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English world rights (And Other Stories)

Pitch & Glint
Year of Publication: 2000
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2000
»On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler’s childhood home, an East German village brutally...
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English world rights (And Other Stories)


DISCOVER

News
On June 8, 2023, Lutz Seiler celebrates his 60th birthday.
News
Since 1995, the City of Augsburg has been awarding the Bertolt-Brecht-Preis to writers who critically examine the present in their literary works.
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The Konrad Adenauer Foundation awards its prize for literature since 1993 to authors who let freedom speak.