Writers in Residence

Every year, Deutsches Haus invites four authors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for a ten week period. It is the Center's aim to expose these authors to the challenges of this unique metropolis and bring them in contact with readers, critics and American authors who live permanently in New York or are also visitors, mostly attached to the NYU Creative Writing Program. The Center regularly organizes readings (including an open air reading in May), performances and small symposia on issues of writing, reading and translating literature.

Since 1985 the program has been sponsored by the Literaturfonds e.V., Darmstadt. Selection of the fellows is made by a committee of the Literaturfonds and Deutsches Haus and announced at the annual Kranichersteiner Literaturtage in Darmstadt. In 2001 the Max Kade Foundation joined the program, and in 2007, Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, each sponsoring one Deutsches Haus Writer-in-Residence per year.


Application Guidelines

Deutsches Haus Writers-in-Residence

2009

Thomas Pletzinger, Peter Weber

2008

Alain-Claude Sulzer, Saša Stanišić, Mirko Bonné, Nora Bossong

2007

Matthias Zschokke, Matthias Goeritz, Marcus Jensen, Felicitas Hoppe

2006

Christina Griebel, Ulrich Peltzer, Silke Scheuermann, Daniel Kehlmann

2005

Jakob Ajourni, Dieter M. Graef, Judith Kuckart, Paul Brodowsky

2004

Esther Dischereit, Tilman Rammstedt, Steffen Jacobs, Yoko Tawada

2003

Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Raphael Urweider, Barbara Honigmann

2002

christA frontzeck, Lilian Faschinger, Thomas Brussig, Norbert Hummelt

2001

Ingo Schulze, Albert Ostermaier, Kathrin Röggla & Norbert Gstrein

2000

Tom Pohlmann & Terézia Mora & Artur Becker

1999

Marcel Beyer & Nadja Klinger & Steffen Mensching

1998

Detlef Opitz & Ralf Rothmann

1997

Ulrike Kolb & Angela Krauß

1996

Josef Haslinger & Robert Menasse

1995

Emine Sevgi Özdamar & Günter Herburger

1994

Brigitte Burmeister & Anne Duden

1993

Alois Hotschnig & Hans Joachim Schädlich

1992

Ginka Steinwachs & Durs Grünbein

1991

Gert Loschütz & Gerd Fuchs

1990

Alfred Gulden & Katja Lange-Müller

1989

Michael Scharang & Uwe Timm

1988

Ginka Steinwachs & Michael Zeller

1987

Michael Schneider & Joseph Zoderer

1986

Friedrich Christian Delius & Peter Renz

1985

Gerrit Bekker

1984

Hans Christoph Buch

1983

Rainald Goetz

1982

Jochen Kelter

1981

Gerhard Falkner



Selected Visiting Writers
Peter Bichsel
Wolf Biermann
Ralf Bönt
Zehra Çirak
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Ludwig Fels
Max Frisch
Günter Grass
Christoph Hein
Kerstin Hensel
Uwe Johnson
Walter Kempowski
Bodo Kirchhoff
Sarah Kirsch
Rainer Kunze
Monika Maron
Heiner Müller
Helga Novak
José Oliver
Aras Ören
Aysel Özakin
Luise Rinser
Bernhard Schlink
Peter Schneider
Maurice Sendak
Johannes Mario Simmel
Peter Sloterdijk
Susan Sontag
Holger Teschke
Kurt Vonnegut
Martin Walser
Gabriele Wohmann