Iris Wolff

Iris Wolff was born in 1977 in Hermannstadt, Transylvania, and grew up in the Banat and Transylvania. In 1985, she emigrated to Germany with her family. She studied German, religious studies, and graphic arts and painting in Marburg an der Lahn, and worked for many years at the German Literature Archive Marbach. Until March 2018, she worked for the cultural office in Freiburg. Her first novel, Halber Stein, was published in 2012 and received the Ernst Habermann Prize. Her literary work has been recognized with, among others, the Marieluise Fleißer Prize, the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize, and the Solothurn Literature Prize. Her novels Die Unschärfe der Welt (2020) and Lichtungen (2024) received several literary awards.