Ulrike Edschmid
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Ulrike Edschmid
Ulrike Edschmid, born in 1940, pursued literary studies in Berlin and Frankfurt and studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, where she continues to live. She writes prose and literary non-fiction and is also famous for her art. She was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize in 2013 and the Cotta Prize for her lifework in 2014.
Ulrike Edschmid, born in 1940, pursued literary studies in Berlin and Frankfurt and studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, where she continues to live. She writes prose and literary non-fiction and is also famous for her art. She was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize in 2013 and the Cotta Prize for her lifework in 2014.
Awards (selection)
Roswitha-Literaturpreis 2023
Günter Grass-Preis 2021
Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2021 (shortlist)
Johann Friedrich von Cotta-Literaturpreis 2014
Preis der SWR-Bestenliste 2013
Grimmelshausen-Preis 2013
Günter Grass-Preis 2021
Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2021 (shortlist)
Johann Friedrich von Cotta-Literaturpreis 2014
Preis der SWR-Bestenliste 2013
Grimmelshausen-Preis 2013
Roswitha-Literaturpreis 2023
Günter Grass-Preis 2021
Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2021 (shortlist)
Johann Friedrich von Cotta-Literaturpreis 2014
Preis der SWR-Bestenliste 2013
Grimmelshausen-Preis 2013
Günter Grass-Preis 2021
Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2021 (shortlist)
Johann Friedrich von Cotta-Literaturpreis 2014
Preis der SWR-Bestenliste 2013
Grimmelshausen-Preis 2013
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2024
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2024
The Last Patient
She sat at the kitchen table, smoking, exuding a “seductive world-weariness of the kind familiar from the films of the Nouvelle Vague”. After turning her back on the country she’d been born in, Luxembourg, and the parents who had raised her, the protagonist of this new novel by Ulrike Edschmid turns up in the narrator’s share house in Frankfurt in 1973. Having been left by a man, she was looking...
Year of Publication: 2021
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2021
Levy’s Testament
They meet in Berlin but in London they become a couple. They spend their days in a court room at the Old Bailey, to support anarchists facing draconian prison sentences. Strikes, squatting, IRA attacks and the tough measures taken by the government shape everyday life in the winter of 1972. The couple explore the city, floating through it weightlessly as though in a dream. The Englishman (as...
Year of Publication: 2017
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2017
A Man Who Falls
Summer 1986. Berlin-Charlottenburg. A man climbs up onto a ladder to paint the ceiling of a flat in a turn-of-the-century building he intends to move into with his partner. He loses his balance and falls. Afterwards, nothing at all is like it was. Little else could have shattered the life of two people at the beginning of their future together in such a brutal way. But what at first seems like...
Year of Publication: 2013
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2013
The Disappearance of Philip S.
In her novel The Disappearance of Philip S., Ulrike Edschmid thinks back to the years spent with Philip S., a young man from a wealthy Swiss family. The two met in the crucible of Berlin...
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Year of Publication: 2006
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2006
My Mother's Lovers
Lovers come and go when their time is up. Her mother’s first husband was killed in the war, and the narrator has no memory of her father. A lonely castle becomes a refuge not only for the mother, who takes on weaving work to support her children, but also for people in the areas who have lost their roots. This unusually calm woman does not allow life’s adversities to make her bitter, but has the...
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News
Ulrike Edschmid Awarded Günter Grass-Preis for her Œuvre
We congratulate our author Ulrike Edschmid.News