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Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in
East-Berlin) is a German writer.
Biography
Jirgl was born in
Berlin-Friedrichshain.[1] He became a skilled worker for
electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in
electronics at
Humboldt University, Berlin.[1] He made first attempts at prose during his studies in the early 1970s.[1] From 1975 he worked as an engineer at the
Academy of Sciences. He gave up his profession in 1978 to devote more time to writing.[2] He worked as a lighting and service technician at the
Volksbühne in Berlin.[2] After submitting his first novel Mutter Vater Roman to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history".[2] The publication of the novel was refused.[2] Until 1989, none of his manuscripts were published.[2] Since 2009 he has been a member of the
German Academy for Language and Literature.[2] and he is member of the
PEN Centre Germany.[3]
Gewitterlicht. stories, with the
EssayDas poetische Vermögen des alphanumerischen Codes in der Prosa. In: Edition Einst und Jetzt Band 3. revonnah, Hannover 2002,
ISBN3-934818-43-9.