Hans-Ulrich Treichel: 70th Birthday on August 12, 2022

Hans-Ulrich Treichel, born in Versmold/Westphalia in 1952, lives in Berlin and Leipzig. He studied German Studies at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on Wolfgang Koeppen. He was a lecturer in German Philology at the University of Salerno and at the Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa. From 1985 to 1991, he was a research assistant for Modern German Literature at the FU Berlin and habilitated in 1993. From 1995 to 2018 Hans-Ulrich Treichel was a professor at the German Literature Institute at the University of Leipzig.

Treichel has received numerous prizes for his works, including the Eichendorff-Literaturpreis 2006, the Hermann-Hesse-Preis 2005, the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Preis 2003. In 1988, he was a fellow at the Villa Massimo in Rome 1988. His most widely translated novel Lost (1998) has been published in 28 languages.