Michael Lentz

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Michael Lentz is a distinguished author and musician known for his experimental texts and sound poetry. Lentz’s prolific output spans novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, poetry, and compositions for a variety of ensembles. His 2007 novel, Pazifik Exil (S. Fischer Verlag), explored the German-speaking exile community in Los Angeles around figures such as Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Arnold Schoenberg. Since 2006, Lentz has served as Professor of Creative Writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. He has received numerous awards, including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2001) and the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize (2012). His most recent novel, Schattenfroh. Ein Requiem (S. Fischer Verlag), was published to critical acclaim. Lentz lives in Berlin and Leipzig.