Wilhelm Genazino

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Wilhelm Genazino (born 22 January 1943, Mannheim) is a German journalist and author.

After his A-levels he studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-university in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. Among other things he was worked for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy Abschaffel. Since 1990 he has been a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. In this year, he also won the Georg Büchner-Preis, the most prestigious award for German literature.

[edit] Selected Works

Laslinstrasse, Cologne: 1965
Abschaffel-Trilogie:
- Abschaffel, 1977
- Die Vernichtung der Sorgen, 1978
- Falsche Jahre, 1979
Der Fleck, die Jacke, die Zimmer, der Schmerz, 1989 (The mark, the jacket, the room, the pain)
Die Kassiererinnen, 1998 (Road works ahead)
Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag, 2001 (An umbrella for one day)
Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman, 2003 (A woman, a flat, a novel)
Der gedehnte Blick, 2004 (The extended gaze)
Die Liebesblödigkeit, 2005 (The love stupidity)
Mittelmäßiges Heimweh, 2007 (Moderate homesickness)

[edit] In Translation

Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag has been translated into English (as The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt, New York: New Directions, 2006), French, Italian, Greek and Lithuanian.
Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman has been translated into French and Spanish.
Translations of works by Willhelm Genazino have also been published in Greek, Latvian and Russian.