Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as The Method, Unterleuten and About People.
Early life and education
Juli Zeh is the daughter of the lawyer. 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. She also has a degree from the German Institute for Literature Leipzig.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. 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. 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".
Personal life
Zeh is married and has two children. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.Selected bibliography
;Novels| Year | English title | Original title | ISBN | Notes |
| 2001 | Eagles and Angels | Adler und Engel | ||
| 2004 | Gaming Instinct | Spieltrieb | ||
| 2007 | Dark Matter | Schilf | US title: In Free Fall | |
| 2009 | The Method | Corpus Delicti | ||
| 2012 | Decompression | Nullzeit | First English translation in 2014 by Harvill Secker. Translated by John Cullen | |
| 2016 | ' | Unterleuten. Roman | ||
| 2017 | Empty Hearts | Leere Herzen. Roman | Translated by John Cullen | |
| 2018 | New Year | Neujahr. Roman | Translated by Alta L. Price | |
| 2021 | About People | Über Menschen | Translated by Alta L. Price | |
| 2023 | ' | Zwischen Welten | With Simon Urban; |
;Other
| Year | English title | Original title | ISBN | Notes |
| 2002 | ' | Die Stille ist ein Geräusch. Eine Fahrt durch Bosnien | ||
| 2004 | ' | Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik | Editor; | |
| 2005 | ' | Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde | ||
| 2006 | ' | Alles auf dem Rasen | ; roughly 'The Full Monty' | |
| 2008 | ' | Das Land der Menschen | ||
| 2009 | ' | Angriff auf die Freiheit. Sicherheitswahn, Überwachungsstaat und der Abbau bürgerlicher Rechte | With Ilija Trojanow; ; excerpt in English in German Studies Review, 38, no. 2, : 271–284 | |
| 2012 | ' | Die Diktatur der Demokraten. Warum ohne Recht kein Staat zu machen ist | ||
| 2013 | ' | Good Morning, Boys and Girls. Theaterstücke | ||
| 2013 | ' | Treideln. Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen | ||
| 2014 | ' | Nachts sind das Tiere. Essays | ||
| 2015 | ' | Dein Erfolg | . Written under the pseudonym Manfred Gortz, a fictitious business consultant. The fictitious author and the book were mentioned later in Zeh's novel Unterleuten | |
| 2018 | ' | Das Turbo-Ich. Der Mensch im Kommunikationszeitalter | ||
| 2019 | Gebrauchsanweisung für Pferde |