Juli Zeh
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Early life and education
Juli Zeh is the daughter of the lawyer Template:Ill. She studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen – comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam – in 2003, and holds a doctorate in international law from Saarland University.[1] She also has a degree from the German Institute for Literature Leipzig.[2]
Career
Zeh's first published novel was Eagles and Angels, which received the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel. She travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book Die Stille ist ein Geräusch.[1] Among her other books are Das Land der Menschen, Dark Matter, Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde, Gaming Instinct, Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik, Decompression and The Method.
Since January 2019, Zeh is an honorary judge at the Constitutional Court of Brandenburg.[3][4] She was one of the first signers of the Open letter on the German position regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine in April 2022, who demanded not to support Ukraine with arms in order to "prevent a third world war".[5]
Personal life
Zeh is married and has two children.[1] Since 2017, she has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.[6]
Selected bibliography
- Novels
| Year | English title | Original title | ISBN | Notes |
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| 2001 | Eagles and Angels | Adler und Engel | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | |
| 2004 | Gaming Instinct | Spieltrieb | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | |
| 2007 | Dark Matter | Schilf | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | US title: In Free Fall |
| 2009 | The Method | Corpus Delicti | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | |
| 2012 | Decompression | Nullzeit | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | First English translation in 2014 by Harvill Secker. Translated by John Cullen |
| 2016 | (not yet translated) | Unterleuten. Roman | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation (a fictional place name) |
| 2017 | Empty Hearts | Leere Herzen. Roman | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Translated by John Cullen |
| 2018 | New Year[7] | Neujahr. Roman | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Translated by Alta L. Price |
| 2021 | About People | Über Menschen[8][9] | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Translated by Alta L. Price |
| 2023 | (not yet translated) | Zwischen Welten | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | With Simon Urban; Template:Literal translation |
- Other
| Year | English title | Original title | ISBN | Notes |
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| 2002 | (not yet translated) | Die Stille ist ein Geräusch. Eine Fahrt durch Bosnien | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2004 | (not yet translated) | Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Editor; Template:Literal translation |
| 2005 | (not yet translated) | Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2006 | (not yet translated) | Alles auf dem Rasen | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation; roughly 'The Full Monty' |
| 2008 | (not yet translated) | Das Land der Menschen | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2009 | (not yet translated) | Angriff auf die Freiheit. Sicherheitswahn, Überwachungsstaat und der Abbau bürgerlicher Rechte[10] | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | With Ilija Trojanow; Template:Literal translation; excerpt in English in German Studies Review, 38, no. 2, (2015): 271–284 Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".[11] |
| 2012 | (not yet translated) | Die Diktatur der Demokraten. Warum ohne Recht kein Staat zu machen ist | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2013 | (not yet translated) | Good Morning, Boys and Girls. Theaterstücke | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2013 | (not yet translated) | Treideln. Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2014 | (not yet translated) | Nachts sind das Tiere. Essays | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
| 2015 | (not yet translated) | Dein Erfolg | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation. Written under the pseudonym Manfred Gortz, a fictitious business consultant. The fictitious author and the book were mentioned later in Zeh's novel Unterleuten[12] |
| 2018 | (not yet translated) | Das Turbo-Ich. Der Mensch im Kommunikationszeitalter | Template:Literal translation | |
| 2019 | (not yet translated) | Gebrauchsanweisung für Pferde | Script error: No such module "template wrapper". | Template:Literal translation |
References
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- ↑ "Echt gelogen. Juli Zeh hat einen Bestseller geschrieben, dessen erfundene Figuren plötzlich im echten Leben auftauchen. Was steckt hinter dem Verwirrspiel? Eine Begegnung." Die Welt (in German), 1 May 2016.
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Further reading
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External links
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- An interview about her social commitment, recent translated books and her recent play, Corpus Delicti, Trouw, September 2008 Template:In lang
- Interview about Corpus Delicti, the role of state observation and civil disobedience, April 2011 Template:In lang
- Article about the translation of Corpus Delicti as The Method, April 2012
- Juli Zeh in: NRW Literatur im Netz Template:In lang
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