Peter Wawerzinek

Peter Wawerzinek is a German artist and writer.
Peter Wawerzinek was born in 1954 in Rostock, in East Germany. His parents escaped from East Germany shortly after his birth leaving him behind. He grew up in the north of East Germany near the coast of the Baltic Sea and was adopted after some years in children's homes.
He moved to East Berlin in 1978 where he studied art, worked a various jobs including gravedigger and carpenter. In the 1980s he was a performance artist and poet. As of 2010 he lives in Berlin. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2010 for his excerpt Ich finde dich of his novel Rabenliebe which was also on the short-list of the 2010 German Book Prize. Wawerzinek has received numerous grants, among them the author's grant from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo 2019.

Works

Es war einmal... – Parodien zur DDR-Literatur, Berlin 1990Nix, Berlin 1990Die 6. Tonnenleerung, Berlin 1990Moppel Schappiks Tätowierungen, Berlin 1991Das Kind, das ich war, Berlin 1994Mein Babylon, Berlin 1995Fallada ich zucke, Berlin 1996 Vielleicht kommt Peter noch vorbei, Leipzig 1997Café Komplott, Berlin 1998Oliv ist Arsen oder Pekinger Wüsteneien, Berlin 1998 Skorbut, Augsburg 1998Der Galionsfigurenschnitzer, Berlin 2000 Das Meer an sich ist weniger, Berlin 2000Der Krieg ist doch verloren?, Rheinbach 2001 Sperrzone reines Deutschland. Szenen einer Sommerreise, Berlin 2001Mein Salzkammergut. Von Seereisen und Seefahrten, Wien, St. Wolfgang 2008, Berlin 2010, Schluckspecht, Galiani, Berlin 2014, Liebestölpel, Galiani, Berlin, Köln 2019,