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Wilhelm Genazino
Summary
Wilhelm Genazino (22 January 1943 – 12 December 2018) was a German journalist and author. He worked first as a journalist for the satirical magazine pardon and for Lesezeichen. From the early 1970s, he was a freelance writer who became known by a trilogy of novels, Abschaffel-Trilogie, completed in 1979. It was followed by more novels and two plays. Among his many awards is the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize.
Born in Mannheim, Genazino studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the 1960s. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, for the satirical magazine pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Beginning in 1970 he worked as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy Abschaffel. In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature.
Genazino died on 12 December 2018 after a short illness at the age of 75.
Laslinstrasse, 1965
Abschaffel-Trilogie:
Abschaffel, 1977
Die Vernichtung der Sorgen, 1978
Falsche Jahre, 1979
Der Fleck, die Jacke, die Zimmer, der Schmerz, 1989 (The mark, the jacket, the room, the pain)
Die Liebe zur Einfalt Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990
Die Obdachlosigkeit der Fische. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994
Die Kassiererinnen, 1998 (Road works ahead)
Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag, 2001 (An umbrella for one day, English title : The shoe tester of Frankfurt)
Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman, 2003 (A woman, a flat, a novel)
Der gedehnte Blick, 2004 (The extended gaze)
Die Liebesblödigkeit, 2005 (The foolishness of love)
Mittelmäßiges Heimweh, Munich 2007 (Mediocre homesickness)
Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten, Munich 2009
Wenn wir Tiere wären, 2011 (If we were animals)
Bei Regen im Saal, Hanser, Munich 2014,
Außer uns spricht niemand über uns.
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