Ingo Schulze
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"This is not reunification literature, this is world literature," reads a review of Schulze's novel Neue Leben. Indeed, reunification and unity play a role in many of his texts - which should come as no surprise given the fact that, despite everything, we still distinguish between the old and new federal states.
But Schulze's texts are not only sharp-eyed and precise - for example in their criticism of the "economization of all areas of life" - they also testify throughout to an ironic and laconic, casual superiority, not least by constantly trying out new forms and styles.
Image: Dontworry (Wikimedia Commons; CC-BY-SA-3.0)Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962. He studied Classical Philology and German Studies in Jena, worked as a dramaturge at the Landestheater Altenburg and as a journalist. He has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 1993. He writes short stories, novels and essays, among other things, and occasionally goes over the top in his literary work, for example with Der Herr Augustin (2008), a book for children "aged four and over".
GPP events with Ingo Schulze
Ingo Schulze was Grimm Poetics Professor of the Year 2009 at the University of Kassel. The Grimm Poetics Professorship series of events began on October 14 with the lecture "Das Wort für die Sache halten. On some terms in our everyday language". This was followed by a public seminar on October 15 and a reading from one of his texts on October 16.