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Ralf Rothmann

{{Short description|German novelist, poet and dramatist}}

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Ralf Rothmann (born 10 May 1953, in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge (Messers Schneide), Young Light (Junges Licht), Fire Doesn't Burn (Feuer brennt nicht), To Die in Spring (Im Frühling sterben) and The God of that Summer (Der Gott jenes Sommers) being translated into English.

The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area (e.g., Stier, Wäldernacht, Milch und Kohle and Junges Licht) as well as Berlin (Flieh mein Freund, Hitze, Feuer brennt nicht), with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. With the major novels Im Frühling sterben, Der Gott jenes Sommers and Die Nacht unterm Schnee, Rothmann goes back to the time of the Second World War and explores the horrors for the individual.

The four volumes of short stories Ein Winter unter Hirschen, Rehe am Meer, Shakespeares Hühner and Hotel der Schlaflosen complete the author's extensive oeuvre.

Works

  • Messers Schneide (stories). 1986. {{ISBN|3-518-38133-4}} - engl. edition as Knife Edge. New Directions, 1992. {{ISBN|0-8112-1204-1}}
  • Kratzer und andere Gedichte (poems). 1987. {{ISBN|3-518-02657-7}}
  • Der Windfisch (story). 1988. {{ISBN|3-518-40129-7}}
  • Stier (novel). 1991. {{ISBN|3-518-22364-X}}
  • Wäldernacht (novel). 1994. {{ISBN|3-518-39082-1}}
  • Berlin Blues. Ein Schauspiel (play). 1997. {{ISBN|3-518-39082-1}}
  • Flieh, mein Freund! (novel). 1998. {{ISBN|3-518-45505-2}}
  • Milch und Kohle (novel). 2000. {{ISBN|3-518-39809-1}}
  • Gebet in Ruinen (poems). 2000. {{ISBN|3-518-41168-3}}
  • Ein Winter unter Hirschen (stories). 2001. {{ISBN|3-518-45524-9}}
  • Hitze (novel). 2003. {{ISBN|3-518-41396-1}}
  • Junges Licht (novel). 2004. {{ISBN|3-518-41640-5}} - engl. edition as Young Light. Seagull Books, 2010. {{ISBN|9781906497545}}
  • Rehe am Meer (stories). 2006. {{ISBN|3-518-41825-4}}
  • Vollkommene Stille (speech at the presentation of the Max Frisch Prize). 2006. {{ISBN|978-3-518-06850-2}}
  • Feuer brennt nicht (novel). 2009. {{ISBN|3-518-42063-1}} - engl. edition as Fire Doesn't Burn. Seagull Books, 2012. {{ISBN|9780857420473}}
  • Shakespeares Hühner (stories). 2012. {{ISBN|978-3-518-42248-9}}
  • Im Frühling sterben (novel). 2015. {{ISBN|3-518-42475-0}} - engl. edition as To Die in Spring. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. {{ISBN|9780374278144}} and Picador (Pan Macmillan), 2017. {{ISBN|9781509812868}}
  • Der Gott jenes Sommers (novel). 2018. {{ISBN|978-3-518-42793-4}} - engl. edition as The God of that Summer. Picador (Pan Macmillan), 2022. {{ISBN|9781529009859}}
  • Hotel der Schlaflosen (stories). 2020. {{ISBN|978-3-518-42960-0}}
  • Die Nacht unterm Schnee (novel). 2022. {{ISBN|978-3-518-43085-9}}
  • Theorie des Regens (notes). 2023. {{ISBN|978-3-518-22545-5}}

Awards

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External links

  • [http://www.nrw-literatur-im-netz.de/datenbank/autoren/437-rothmann-ralf.html Ralf Rothmann] in: NRW Literatur im Netz {{in lang|de}}

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Category:1953 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein

Category:German male writers

Category:Kleist Prize winners

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