Biografia
Wolfram Gernot was born in 1975 in Zittau/Saxony. He studied German Philology and Communication Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He works and lives as author and journalist in Berlin and Kufstein (Austria), where he is also a lecturer for Cultural Studies at the Kufstein University.
He writes novels, stories, plays and essays and has published numerous articles and essays for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “WELT”, the “Süddeutschen Zeitung” and the “Jüdischen Allgemeine”. He writes mainly about border experiences of people who change or have to change between different cultures, as well as “nomadic experiences” of people in big metropolises.
He became known with his short story collection Der Fremdländer and received positive reviews. His short story Am Radio is awarded the Walter-Serner-Preis. His novel Samuels Reise was published, a road movie through Germany and eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall. His stories get published in several anthologies and repeatedly in the „Süddeutschen Zeitung“. His short story Das Schneefeld is included in the collection Beste deutsche Erzähler (best German narrators) in 2004. He has been invited to numerous international literature festivals and his stories have been translated into eight languages. Next to literary essays on Jewish-German authors he continues writing for the theatre.