Juli Zeh

Juli Zeh was born 1974 in Bonn. She studied law from 1993 till 1998 in Passau and Leipzig. Even before the bar exam, she began studies at the Institute for German Literature in Leipzig, which she completed in 2000. In 2001 her first novel, Adler und Engel, was published by Schoeffling and CO. followed by Spieltrieb (2004) and, in 2007, Schilf. Additionally, Zeh has published essays and newspaper articles. For her work she was awarded the German Book Price 2002, Hölderlin Sponsorship Award 2003, Ernst Toller Award 2003, Per Olov Enquist Award 2005, Carl-Amery-Award 2009, Gerty-Spies-Award 2009 and Solothurner Literature Award 2009. Following several residencies in foreign countries, she received a PhD in international law in 2010 at the University of Saarbrücken.

Plays represented by Rowohlt Theater Verlag

• 203

  cast of 6
  • U: 22.04.2011 Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Regie: Hans-Ulrich Becker)

• Corpus Delicti

  6F / 7M, Casting may vary (11 to 18 performers)
  • U: 15.09.2007 RuhrTriennale Essen (Regie: Anja Gronau)

• Der Kaktus

  [Cactus]
  1F / 3M,
  • U: 05.11.2009 Münchner Volkstheater (Regie: Bettina Bruinier)

• Good Morning, Boys and Girls

  [Good Morning, Boys and Girls]
  3F / 3M3F – 2M – 1 additional actor/actress
  • U: 10.04.2010 Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Regie: Stephan Rottkamp)

• Schilf

  Bearbeitet von Bettina Bruinier und Katja Friedrich
  2F / 4Mone child
  • U: 13.12.2007 Uraufführung am Münchner Volkstheater (Regie: Bettina Bruinier)