Karsten Krampitz, D

Born in 1969 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin, lives in Berlin. Studied Modern and Contemporary History, Political Sciences and Modern German Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Since 2001 articles, reports, columns etc. for, among others, the Berliner Zeitung, Berliner Morgenpost, TIP, Die Welt, Jungle World, Rheinischer Merkur, FAZ. Numerous contributions to anthologies.

Lyricist of the East Berlin rock band Freygang. In 2007 co-founder of the disabled newspaper mondkalb – Zeitschrift für das Organisierte Gebrechen [organised disability newspaper].

Video portrait

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

• Affentöter. Karin-Kramer-Verlag Berlin 2000.
•  Der Kaiser vom Knochenberg. Ullstein Berlin
  2002, List-Taschenbuch 2004.
• Ich werde dann gehen. Erinnerungen an Oskar
  Brüsewitz (co-editor) Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
  Leipzig 2006.

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

• Invitation to the open mike of the Literaturwerkstatt  [Literary Workshop] Berlin 1995.
• Alfred Döblin Scholarship 2004.

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