Yannic Han Biao Federer
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Yannic Han Biao Federer

Yannic Han Biao Federer, born in Breisach in 1986, studied German Philology in Bonn, Florence and Oxford. Since 2014, he has been researching his PhD and working at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn. He took part in the Atelier NRW 2016 as well as the writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation in 2017. He was a participant at the 2019 Bachmann Prize competition.

Yannic Han Biao Federer, born in Breisach in 1986, studied German Philology in Bonn, Florence and Oxford. Since 2014, he has been researching his PhD and working at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn. He took part in the Atelier NRW 2016 as well as the writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation in 2017. He was a participant at the 2019 Bachmann Prize competition.

Awards (selection)
Wortspiele-Preis 2022 for Tao
Wortspiele-Preis 2022 for Tao

PUBLICATIONS

Tao
Year of Publication: 2022
Yannic Han Biao FedererYear of Publication: 2022
Very few people know that Tobi’s real name is Tao. Only Miriam calls him by his Chinese name when they are alone together. When she breaks up with him, Tao travels by car across Europe to escape his grief over the separation. But the memory of the years they spent together haunts him, nor will the death of his father loosen its grip on him: years ago, he disappeared in Hong Kong while...
And Everything is Like Paper Mâché
Year of Publication: 2019
Yannic Han Biao FedererYear of Publication: 2019

It is the late summer of 2001 in the backwoods of Baden. On the television, there are images of the World Trade Centre collapsing. Jian is sixteen and in love with Sarah, but sleeps with Anna who has just broken up with Frank. After that, Sarah doesn’t want to have anything to do with Jian anymore, nor Jian with Anna, and Frank is caught up in his own self. Fifteen years later Anna is in a...