catalogue of works

Stage works

  • Gegen Guggenheim (Against Guggenheim), premiere: bat-Studiotheater, Berlin, 14 January 1993
  • Thälmann in Berlin, premiere: Hackesches Hoftheater, Berlin, May 1997
  • Maienschlager, premiere: Theater der Stadt Heidelberg, 31 May 1997
  • Rote Hölle (Red Hell), premiere: Hackesches Hoftheater, Berlin, February 1998
  • Jonahs Hunde (Jonah’s Dogs), premiere: Hackesches Hoftheater, Berlin, March 1999
  • Typhusmond (2000), world premiere: Schauspiel Bonn, January 2000
  • Winterkönig (Winter King), premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim, 19 May 2000
  • Geister Bahn (Ghost Train), premiere: Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 25 November 2000
  • Das Märchen vom Baron von Hüpfenstich (The Fairy Tale of Baron of  Hüpfenstich), freely adapted from Giambattista Basile and Clemens Brentano, premiere: Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 25 January 2003
  • Der Graf von Monte Christo (The Count of Monte Cristo), premiere: Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 13 November 2004
  • Vom Fluss (From the River), (written in 2000 as a commission for the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin), premiere: Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 13 November 2004
  • Che oder Der Stern an der Boina (Che or The Star on the Boina), premiere: Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 24 September 2005
  • Mont Klamott, musical, premiere: Landesbühnen Sachsen (Radebeul), 18 February 2006
  • Buckliges Mädchen (Hunchbacked Girl), premiere: Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 17 March 2007
  • Die Nibelungen (The Nibelungs), premiere: Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 26 September 2009
  • Bromberg/Bydgoszcz, together with Artur Palyga, premiere: Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz in cooperation with the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord (Wilhelmshaven), 13 November 2012
  • Lenz/Fragments, radio play, directed by Jörg Jannings, produced by rbb/Deutschlandradio, 2011
  • Theatre adaptation of Lenz/Fragments, premiere: Stadttheater Gießen, 2013
  • Engelbrot, world premiere in Berlin, 2014
  • Barberina, Berlin 2015
  • Cabaret, Berlin 2016

Prose / Publications

  • Wege nach Bulawayo (Roads to Bulawayo), novel, 1995
  • rewoluschn, short story, in ‘moosbrand, neue texte 6’ (moosbrand, new texts 6), Janus press, 1998
  • Der Rabe / Die Sardinen (The Raven / The Sardines), short stories, in Ahrenshooper Seiten, Edition Hohes Ufer, 2001
  • König Karl (King Karl), dramatic poem, in Kleist oder die Ordnung der Welt (Kleist or the Order of the World), Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2008
  • Two German Plays, together with Moritz Rinke, Oberon Books London, 2001
  • Klagenfurt Texts The Best of 2014, Piper, 2014
  • The Box from Cologne, short story, No Man’s Land, New German Literature in English Translation, 2021
  • Eine Leiche namens Ala Basta (A Corpse Named Ala Basta), crime novel, 2021

Awards / Scholarships

  • 1996: First prize from the Frankfurt Authors’ Foundation for Maienschlager
  • 1998: Kleist Prize for Young Playwrights for Winterkönig
  • 1999: Author’s Prize of the Landesbühnengruppe im Deutschen Bühnenverein
  • 2000: Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
  • 2001: Lukas Artists’ House Cultural Foundation
  • 2000/2001: Participation in the Weeks of German Drama, Goethe Institute London and Moscow
  • 2003: Kulturfond Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf Foundation
  • 2004: Scholarship from the German Literature Fund
  • 2014: Ernst Willner Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt
  • 2017: Scholarship from the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung (Prussion Maritime Trade Foundation)