Ulrike Draesner, born in Munich in 1962, has won a range of prestigious awards for her novels, essays and poetry. Her novel Die Verwandelten was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Draesner, also known as a translator mainly of poetry, has been a professor at the German Institute for Literature Leipzig since 2018. She is a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and the German Academy for Language and Literature. Draesner lives in Berlin with her daughter.
Ulrike Draesner
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Publishing 3 September 2026 What brings people to today’s Berlin, what makes them stay? For some, the city is a place of refuge, from war and persecution, bigotry or boredom. For others, it’s the history or the nightlife or the broad green spaces that attract them – or haunt them. And a few are just …
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Berlin Babel
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176 pages3 September 2026