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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

External links

• Ralf Rothmann in: NRW Literatur im Netz (in German)

Web sources

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