Ulrike Draesner
Ulrike Draesner (born 20 January 1962 in Munich) is a German author.
Ulrike Draesner
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- Born
- 20 January 1962
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- writer · translator · poet · literary critic · essayist · university teacher · medievalist · librettist
- Education
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Honours
- Roswitha Prize · Solothurner Literaturpreis · Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg · Nicolas Born Award · Friedrich Hölderlin Prize · Usedom Literature Prize
- Languages
- German
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Ulrike Draesner (born 20 January 1962 in Munich) is a German author.
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Ulrike Draesner (born 1962) is an essayist, librettist and literary critic, among other activities, of German nationality. The essayist was born in Munich.
Ulrike Draesner was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The essayist worked for Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and is a member of North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts and PEN Germany. Ulrike Draesner worked in Berlin.
Languages used include German. Honours include Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg and Roswitha Prize, among others.
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Biography
Ulrike Draesner studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Employment is recorded with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Distinctions recorded are Roswitha Prize, Solothurner Literaturpreis, Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg and Nicolas Born Award.
Ulrike Draesner bei der Vorstellung ihres Romans Spiele auf dem Blauen Sofa während der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2005.
Blaues Sofa · Flickr: Ulrike Draesner im Gespräch mit Volker Panzer
Ulrike Draesner bei der Vorstellung ihres Romans Spiele auf dem Blauen Sofa während der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2005.
Blaues Sofa · Flickr: Ulrike Draesner im Gespräch mit Volker Panzer
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 20 January 1962
Life and work
Life and work
The daughter of an architect, Draesner grew up in Munich, Germany. She received a Bavarian State scholarship for the best performing student at Gymnasium (Sixth Form) from the Stiftung Maximilianeum. She read Law, English and German literature as well as Philosophy in Munich, Salamanca, and Oxford. She worked as a lecturer at the Institute for German Philology from 1989 to 1993. In 1992, she received her doctorate for a dissertation on the Middle High German romance Parzival. In 1993, Draesner quit her academic career in order to work as a full-time author. She has lived in Berlin since 1994, writing both poetry and prose. Her novel Vorliebe (2010) is a romance novel. In 2014, her groundbreaking novel Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt was published and a celebrated success. Draesner frequently collaborates in cross-media projects with other artists and merges literature with sculpting, performing arts, and music. She became a member of the PEN Centre Germany in 1999. In 2010, she was elected to a Fellowship at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. She is a regular guest at international literary festivals, and currently (2018) serves on the prize jury at the Irseer Pegasus. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. During the academic year 2015/16, Draesner was a visiting fellow at New College, Oxford, working with Karen Leeder, leader of the Mediating Modernity project, on topics of bilingualism, poetry translation and negotiating identity as a Writer in residence at the Faculty for Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.
Publications
• Single author titles • Wege durch erzählte Welten. Intertextuelle Verweise als Mittel der Bedeutungskonstitution in Wolframs Parzival, dissertation, Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] 1993. • Gedächtnisschleifen, poetry, Frankfurt am Main 1995, revised edition Munich 2008. • Anis-o-trop, poetry, Hamburg 1997. • Lichtpause, novel, poetry 1998. • Reisen unter den Augenlidern, short stories, Klagenfurt 1999. • für die nacht geheuerte zellen, poetry, München 2001. • Bläuliche Sphinx, Berlin 2002 (with Lothar Seruset). • Mitgift, novel, Munich 2002. • Hot Dogs, short stories, Munich 2004. • kugelblitz, poetry, Munich 2005. • Spiele, novel, Munich 2005. • Schöne Frauen lesen, essays, Luchterhand, Munich 2007,. • berührte orte, poetry, Luchterhand, Munich 2008,. • Vorliebe, novel, Luchterhand, Munich 2010,. • Richtig liegen. Geschichten in Paaren, short stories, Luchterhand, Munich 2011,. • Heimliche Helden. Über Heinrich von Kleist, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Gottfried Benn, Karl Valentin u.v.a., Luchterhand, Munich 2013,. • Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt, novel, Luchterhand, Munich 2014,. • Editor • Verführung – Novellen von Goethe bis Musil, Munich 1994 • Literary translations • Louise Glück: Wilde Iris, Munich 2008. • Louise Glück: Averno, Munich 2007. • Charles Simmons: Belles Lettres, Munich 2003 (translated with Klaus Modick). • William Shakespeare: Twin spin, Göttingen 2000. • Gertrude Stein: The first reader, Klagenfurt 2001.
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- “Ulrike Draesner”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q96334: Ulrike Draesner
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Awards (selection)
• 1994 Literary Scholararship awarded by the City of Munich • 1995 Advancement award: Leonce-und-Lena-Preis • 1997 Foglio-Preis für Junge Literatur • 1997 Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis für Literatur • 2001 Award Künstlerhaus Edenkoben • 2001 Advancement award: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the City of Bad Homburg • 2002 Preis der Literaturhäuser • 2006 Droste-Preis der Stadt Meersburg • 2006 Professor of Poetry at the University of Bamberg • 2010 Solothurner Literaturpreis • 2012 Grenzgänger-Recherchestipendium der Robert Bosch Stiftung für Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt • 2013 Roswitha-Preis • 2014 Joachim-Ringelnatz-Preis • 2014 Longlist beim Deutschen Buchpreis mit Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt • 2016 Nicolas Born Prize • 2020 Bayerischer Buchpreis – belles-lettres, for Schwitters • 2021 Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds • 2024 Georg Dehio Book Prize • 2025 Christine Lavant Preis
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- 1.Information on the Knowledge Exchange partnership award for Karen Leeder.
- 2.Ulrike Draesner in Oxford | Mediating Modern Poetry. mmp.mml.ox.ac.uk.
- 3.2006 – Ulrike Draesner - Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Friedhelm Marx). www.uni-bamberg.de.
- 4.Nicolas-Born-Preise 2016 / Ulrike Draesner und Joachim Meyerhoff ausgezeichnet. www.boersenblatt.net.
- 5.Georg Dehio-Buchpreis. Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa e.V. 2024-03-25.
- 6."Christine Lavant Preis für Ulrike Draesner vergeben". wdr.de, 6 October 2025 (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2025.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Stephanie Catani, Friedhelm Marx (eds.): Familien – Geschlechter – Macht – Beziehungen im Werk Ulrike Draesners, Wallstein Verlag, 2008, 161 S.
- Cornelia Saxe: Schöne Frauen lesen und schreiben – Die Ulrike-Draesner-Homestory, In: „Dünn ist die Decke der Zivilisation – Begegnungen zwischen Schriftstellerinnen“, Maike Stein (eds.), Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Frankfurt/M., 2007, S. 21 – 32,
- Susanna Brogi (et al.), Text+Kritik, no. 201, "Ulrike Draesner", Munich 2014 (features various essays on her work)
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