Ulrich Peltzer

Ulrich Peltzer, born in Krefeld in 1956, studied philosophy and psychology in Berlin. His novels include The Sins of Laziness (1987), Stefan Martinez (1995), Alle oder keiner (1999), Bryant Park (2002), Teil der Lösung (2007), Das bessere Leben (2015), Das bist du (2021), and Der Ernst des Lebens (2024). He also published his Frankfurt Poetics Lectures as Angefangen wird mittendrin (2011). Peltzer has received numerous literary awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Böll Prize, the Marieluise Fleißer Prize, the Peter Weiss Prize, and the Franz Hessel Prize. His novel Das bessere Leben was shortlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize.