Rainald Goetz
Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, studied history and medicine in Munich and obtained a PhD in both subjects. He briefly worked as a physician but quit the profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel Irre, set in a psychiatric hospital, was published in 1983. Goetz subsequently also succeeded as a playwright. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary »Rubbish for Everyone«, probably the first literary blog in Germany, which was published in book form in 1999 and together with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration and Dekonspiratione, constitutes Heute Morgen, Goetz’s great history of the present. Rainald Goetz has received numerous prizes, most notably the Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.
Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, studied history and medicine in Munich and obtained a PhD in both subjects. He briefly worked as a physician but quit the profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel Irre, set in a psychiatric hospital, was published in 1983. Goetz subsequently also succeeded as a playwright. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary »Rubbish for Everyone«, probably the first literary blog in Germany, which was published in book form in 1999 and together with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration and Dekonspiratione, constitutes Heute Morgen, Goetz’s great history of the present. Rainald Goetz has received numerous prizes, most notably the Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.
Georg Büchner Prize 2015
Marieluise Fleißer Prize 2013
Schiller-Gedächtnispreis 2013
Berliner Literaturpreis along with the Heiner Müller Guest Professorship at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin 2012
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2000
Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis 1999
Heinrich Böll Prize 1991
Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 1988, 1993,...
Georg Büchner Prize 2015
Marieluise Fleißer Prize 2013
Schiller-Gedächtnispreis 2013
Berliner Literaturpreis along with the Heiner Müller Guest Professorship at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin 2012
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2000
Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis 1999
Heinrich Böll Prize 1991
Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 1988, 1993, 2000
Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 1983
»Rainald Goetz is the most important trendsetter in German literature.« Süddeutsche...
»Rainald Goetz is the most important trendsetter in German literature.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
PUBLICATIONS
Lapidarium
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
wrong
Writing as if you were talking, as if you wanted...
Johann Holtrop
For the charismatic, clever, successful chief executive Dr. Johann Holtrop,...
Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Fazi)
Jeff Koons
France (L'Arche)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Oberon Books), Korea (Sung Kyun Kwan UP), Japan (Ronsosha), Poland (Ksiegarnia Akademicka), Czech Republic (Zivilverein Transteatral)
Rave
»Rave tells stories from life in the depths of the night. What are they really doing, these people who live at night, when they go somewhere to party every weekend? They listen to...
English world rights (Fitzcarraldo), Netherlands (Het Balanseer), Denmark (Det poetiske Bureau), Sweden (it-lit)
Insane
English world rights (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish world rights (Sexto Piso), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Het Balanseer)