Albert Ostermaier
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Albert Ostermaier
Albert Ostermaier, born in Munich in 1967, was playwright-in-residence at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim and at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel. He was writer-in-residence in New York and has been a visiting lecturer at various German universities for the past few years. Ostermaier gained a high reputation as the artistic director of different festivals.
Albert Ostermaier, born in Munich in 1967, was playwright-in-residence at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim and at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel. He was writer-in-residence in New York and has been a visiting lecturer at various German universities for the past few years. Ostermaier gained a high reputation as the artistic director of different festivals.
Awards (selection)
Ernst Toller Pize 1997
Writer-in-Residence at New York University 2001
Kleist Prize 2003
Bertolt Brecht Prize 2010
Writer-in-Residence at New York University 2001
Kleist Prize 2003
Bertolt Brecht Prize 2010
Ernst Toller Pize 1997
Writer-in-Residence at New York University 2001
Kleist Prize 2003
Bertolt Brecht Prize 2010
Writer-in-Residence at New York University 2001
Kleist Prize 2003
Bertolt Brecht Prize 2010
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2021
Albert OstermaierYear of Publication: 2021
Tar
Albert Ostermaier’s new poems come just at the right time, as they talk with urgency, powerful imagery and tremendous intensity about »what that / was the future and how we can / win it back«. He juxtaposes the dragging monotony of the Corona present, the quarantine of »I live / in inverted commas« with lively poems that illuminate everyday life, conjure confidence...
Year of Publication: 2015
Albert OstermaierYear of Publication: 2015
Lenz in Lebanon
Between Europe and the Middle East, between self-abandonment and war: Lenz in the 21st century
In Georg Büchner’s novella, the writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz withdraws...
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Arabic world rights (Al Kamel)
Year of Publication: 2013
Albert OstermaierYear of Publication: 2013
His Time to Die
An enthralling, powerful thriller out of the gleaming world of Kitzbühel.
The Streif in Kitzbühel: the most dangerous downhill ski race in the world, a hell-trip on naked ice. The city in an annual emergency: all eyes on the Hahnenkamm, on this glittering snow world and the final straight. It’s a breath-taking day, perfect alpine weather, and the mood...
The Streif in Kitzbühel: the most dangerous downhill ski race in the world, a hell-trip on naked ice. The city in an annual emergency: all eyes on the Hahnenkamm, on this glittering snow world and the final straight. It’s a breath-taking day, perfect alpine weather, and the mood...
Year of Publication: 2012
Albert OstermaierYear of Publication: 2012
The Lover
After the success of his novel Schwarze Sonne scheine, which described the birth of the artist prototypically through betrayed trust, Albert Ostermaier now turns to one of his other big literary themes: love. »Trust and deception, love and loss – those are Albert Ostermaier’s big themes.« (From the laudation at the WELT-Literaturpreis...
Year of Publication: 2011
Albert OstermaierYear of Publication: 2011
May the Black Sun shine
The young man’s delving into the past, the detailed and sober account of his boarding school life and the lost years of his adolescence, gradually reveal the disturbing panorama of...
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)
Year of Publication: 2008
Albert OstermaierYear of Publication: 2008
Zephyr
Albert Ostermaier's first novel is a dazzling puzzle narrated with swift shifts of perspectives, a fast-and-furious pendant to the »film noir«, a dark song of love, whose rhythm...
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Italy (Scritturapura)
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