Poetic, sensual and going nearly to Magic: Lutz Seiler receives the German Book Prize in 2014 for his DDR-outs novel” kruso “. It used to be only slightly pointed to his literary career back.
For its dropout novel “kruso” on the DDR-end Hiddensee the author received on Monday evening the coveted German Book Prize 2014 The Baltic island was before the turn of refuge for many dropouts. For the finale of the book prize – the winner will receive 25,000 euros – were six novels nominated.
The author has described poetic and sensual as well as in an almost continuous language into the Magic the summer of 1989 on the island Hiddensee, the jury praised the novel. As the “Court of disappearance” Hiddensee was then become a place for nerds, creative thinkers, freedom seekers and aspiring East German refugees.
Seiler worked as a carpenter and mason
In the finals Lutz sat Seiler against Thomas Hettche (“Peacock Island”), Angelika Klüssendorf (“April”), Gertrud Leutenegger (“panic Spring”), Thomas Melle (“3000 euro”) and Heinrich Steinfest (“The all researchers”) by.
In Lutz Seiler’s early CV suggests at first glance little that he would become a multi-award-winning author. Born in Thuringia did an apprenticeship as a construction worker and worked as a carpenter and bricklayer. “The writing began while the army time to” told Seiler. “Basically started because reading and writing was then right with it.”
mix of seriousness and comedy
in 1990 concluded Seiler, a German language study from. Previously, he worked as a dishwasher at Hiddensee. Now the island is one of the protagonists of his novel debut “kruso”. The story is there in the scene of seasonal workers. The title is similar to the name of the famous castaway Robinson Crusoe.
As he stranded in “kruso” freedom seekers during the GDR era on the island. With a mix of seriousness and comedy and a critically acclaimed eloquence Seiler tells of the young Ed, who flees to the island. “I think Hiddensee is the most beautiful island in the world, to this day,” says Seiler.
Multiple award winner
His rags times are long gone. Today you can watch how his works are cheered the author. The 51-year-old received prestigious awards such as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Uwe-Johnson Prize and the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Literature Prize of the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing. Seiler’s poems, essays and stories are captivating poetic explorations of East German industrial landscapes, it was in the jury. Now there was for “kruso” the German Book Prize 2014
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