Gunther Geltinger
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Gunther Geltinger

Gunther Geltinger was born in Erlenbach in 1974 and currently lives in Cologne. He studied scriptwriting and drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His critically acclaimed debut Mensch Engel was published in 2008, followed by his second novel Moor in 2013; Benzin is his third novel.

Gunther Geltinger was born in Erlenbach in 1974 and currently lives in Cologne. He studied scriptwriting and drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His critically acclaimed debut Mensch Engel was published in 2008, followed by his second novel Moor in 2013; Benzin is his third novel.


PUBLICATIONS

Fuel
Year of Publication: 2019
Gunther GeltingerYear of Publication: 2019

This isn’t the first time Alexander and Vinz have taken a trip together because their relationship has reached a crisis point. The road trip through South Africa is meant to give them clarity, and Vinz, the writer, hopes to get a new idea for a novel. Careening past street markets, Chicken Inns and hitchhikers, the two Germans make their way through a country where wealth and poverty collide,...

Moor
Year of Publication: 2013
Gunther GeltingerYear of Publication: 2013
»The stork delivers all little babes – all except Dion, whom the moor made.«

A novel about what we do to escape loneliness: about all the demands we make of love, even as we hurt...
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English world rights (Seagull)


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News
19.04.2020
It is our pleasure to announce that Gunther Geltinger's novel Benzin is shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature.