Thomas von Steinaecker
Biografia
Thomas von Steinaecker was born in Traunstein (Bavaria) in 1977.
He studied German, English and American Literature in Munich and Cincinnati.
In 2006 he took his doctorate with a thesis on “Literary Photo-texts. On the Function of Photographs in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Alexander Kluge and W.G. Sebald”. His first novel, Wallner beginnt zu fliegen, was published in 2007 and received several prizes. Since 2007 he has been living and working as a freelance author, writer of radio plays, film director and journalist in Augsburg.
Bibliography:
Götz. Eine Travestie. novel, Textem Verlag. Hamburg 2004
Wallner beginnt zu fliegen. novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2007
Geister. With Comics by Daniela Kohl. Novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2008
Der Anfang des Endes des Anfangs, in: Gute Vorsätze, schlechtes Karma. Geschichten vom Ende des Jahres. ed. H. Köhler, K. Kredel, Suhrkamp Verlag 2008
Klang. Welt. Über Karlheinz Stockhausen (Reportage), SuKuLTuR Verlag 2008
Schutzgebiet. novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2009
Der Brandner Kaspar. Eine Weltgeschichte, in: Das Münchner Kneipen-Buch. ed. B. Kuhligk, T. Schulz, Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag 2009
Renate, Renate, in: Kartographie der Nacht. ed. L. Claßen, Suhrkamp Verlag 2011
Das Jahr, in dem ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und anfing zu träumen. S. Fischer 2012