Lutz Seiler
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 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.
Berliner Literaturpreis 2023 (Germany)
Bertolt-Brecht-Preis 2023 (Germany)
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger for Stern 111 2022 (France)
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for Stern 111 2020 (Germany)
Kakehashi Prize for Literature for Kruso 2020 (Japan)
German Book Prize for Kruso 2014 (Germany)
Fontane Prize for Die Zeitwaage 2010 (Germany)
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize...
Berliner Literaturpreis 2023 (Germany)
Bertolt-Brecht-Preis 2023 (Germany)
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger for Stern 111 2022 (France)
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for Stern 111 2020 (Germany)
Kakehashi Prize for Literature for Kruso 2020 (Japan)
German Book Prize for Kruso 2014 (Germany)
Fontane Prize for Die Zeitwaage 2010 (Germany)
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2007
Bremen Literature Prize 2004
Anna Seghers Prize 2002
Meran Poetry Prize 2000
Kranichstein Literature Prize 1999
»Since the mid-1990s, Lutz Seiler has been moving through the genres, crossing borders, gaining new fascinating aspects from each genre, especially through literary interplay. ... His work, throughout which our time pulsates palpably, is characterised by a...
»Since the mid-1990s, Lutz Seiler has been moving through the genres, crossing borders, gaining new fascinating aspects from each genre, especially through literary interplay. ... His work, throughout which our time pulsates palpably, is characterised by a challenging of patterns of perception, by new beginnings on unfamiliar ground, observations of nature damaged by humans – the present as a network of tension formed by the remembered past.« Jury of the Berliner Literaturpreis 2023
PUBLICATIONS
script for blind giants
Sweden (Edda)
Star 111
»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....
UK & Commonwealth (And Other Stories), USA & Canada (NYRB), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Verdier), Italy (Utopia), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Norstedts), Poland (ArtRage), 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)
Film rights optioned
Kruso
English world rights (Scribe), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Catalan rights (Club Editor), Russia (Text), France (Verdier), Italy (Del Vecchio), Denmark (Batzer & Co.), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland (Jagiellonian UP), Hungary (Europa), 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), Netherlands (Meridiaan / Dutch Media Group), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Serbia (Laguna)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Entire Radio Reading (NDR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg + Club Bertelsmann)
in field latin
English world rights (Seagull), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio), Sweden (selection, Faethon)
The Time-Balance
Catalan Rights (selection, Club Editor), Arabic world rights (Al'Asreya), France (Verdier), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore)
Turksib
In Case of Loss
»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....
English world rights (And Other Stories), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio)
forty kilometres of night
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...
English world rights (And Other Stories)
Pitch & Glint
English world rights (And Other Stories)