Ursula Krechel
Germany
Ursula Krechel, born in Trier in 1947, studied German language and literature, theatre studies and art history in Cologne and worked as a dramaturg and journalist. She now lives in Berlin as a freelance writer. She has received numerous awards, most recently the Georg Büchner Prize.
Krechel is exceptionally versatile: she writes poetry, novels, essays and plays. Her texts are defined by an intense engagement with themes such as exile, violence and social upheaval, as seen in her novel Landgericht, which was awarded the German Book Prize. Her historical interest and her precise, journalistic research are characteristic of her work. Krechel’s writing style is an exciting blend of poetic and analytical language. “No one writes with such stylistic awareness as Ursula Krechel,” writes the FAZ, for example.
This is also evident in her latest novel, Sehr geehrte Frau Ministerin: it interweaves the stories of several women from the present and the past. At its heart lie mother-son relationships, political violence, power, resistance and the social role of women. The novel spans a period from Roman antiquity to the present day.
Sehr geehrte Frau Ministerin. Novel. Klett-Cotta 2025
Vom Herzasthma des Exils. Essay. Klett-Cotta 2025
Beileibe und Zumute. Poems. Jung und Jung 2021
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