Yevgeniy Breyger
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Yevgeniy Breyger
Yevgeniy Breyger was born in 1989 in Kharkiv, studied at the literary institutes in Hildesheim and Leipzig, and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He works as a translator, editor, curator, and editor. His most recent collection of poems, Frieden ohne Krieg (2023, kookbooks), he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Christine Levant Prize and the Klopstock Prize for New Literature. Breyger teaches at the Institute of Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he also lives.
Yevgeniy Breyger was born in 1989 in Kharkiv, studied at the literary institutes in Hildesheim and Leipzig, and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He works as a translator, editor, curator, and editor. His most recent collection of poems, Frieden ohne Krieg (2023, kookbooks), he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Christine Levant Prize and the Klopstock Prize for New Literature. Breyger teaches at the Institute of Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he also lives.
Awards (selection)
Reinhard Priessnitz Prize 2025
Literary Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft 2025
Reinhard Priessnitz Prize 2025
Literary Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft 2025
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2026
Yevgeniy BreygerYear of Publication: 2026
hello nobody
In a red Audi A6, our hero sets out opn a trip from Austria to Germany to become the federal chancellor. He pauses at autobahn rest stops and in Penny parking lots, ends up at left-wing and right-wing protests, parks in front of the Bundestag, at a circus ground, and ends up in a police interrogation room. On the different legs of his journey, he encounters bizarre characters that suggest an...