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Thomas von Steinaecker

Photo: © Joachim Unseld

Thomas von Steinaecker, born 1977 in Traunstein (Bavaria), studied Literature in Munich and Cincinnati, and gained a doctorate with a thesis on literary photo-texts. He lives in Augsburg, and works as a freelance writer, film-maker, television director and journalist.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2018 Rudolph Dirks Award
  • 2018 Golden Prague, International Television Festival
  • 2018 City of Wetzlar Phantastik Prize
  • 2017 Carl Amery Literature Prize
  • 2015 Bavarian Culture Prize
  • 2015 International Classical Music Award
  • 2015 ECHO Klassik
  • 2010 Authors Prize of the Autorenstiftung Frankfurt
  • 2008 Cultural Committee of the Federation of German Industries - Literature Prize
  • 2007 Aspekte Literature Prize

More Publications

Der Sommer ihres Lebens
Reprodukt, Berlin 2017.
 
Die Verteidigung des Paradieses,
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2016.
 
Schutzgebiet
Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2009.
 
Geister
Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2008.
 
Wallner beginnt zu fliegen
Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2007.

Featured Books

Book cover The year in which I stopped worrying and began to dream

Das Jahr, in dem ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und anfing zu träumen
[The year in which I stopped worrying and began to dream]

S. Fischer Verlag

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