Heike Geissler

Heike Geissler
Graffiti portrait of Bachmann at the Robert Musil Museum in Klagenfurt
Born	(1977-04-05)5 April 1977 Riesa, Germany
Occupation	Author

Heike Geissler (born 5 April 1977) is a German author. She is a recipient of the Alfred Döblin Prize.

Life

Heike Geissler was born in Riesa, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany, on 5 April 1977. She grew up in Riesa and Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz. In 2001, she received the Alfred Döblin Prize for her novel Rosa, which was published the following year. Her novel Saisonarbeit (2014) was published as Seasonal Associate by Semiotext(e) in English translation by Katy Derbyshire in 2018 to critical acclaim.

She lives in Leipzig.

Awards

• 2001, Alfred Döblin Prize

Publications

• Rosa. Roman. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/München 2002, ISBN 3-421-05605-6.
• Nichts, was tragisch wäre. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-04219-4.
• Emma und Pferd Beere. With illustrations by Simone Waßermann, Lubok Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-941601-09-3.
• Saisonarbeit. Spector Books, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-944669-66-3.
  • English-language translation: Seasonal Associate. Translated Katy Derbyshire. Semiotext(e), New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-63590-036-1.
• Die Woche Roman (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2022. ISBN 978-3-518-43053-8. OCLC 1277291138.

External links

• Literature by and about Heike Geissler in the German National Library catalogue
• Author homepage
• Profile of Heike Geißler, Deutschlandradio Kultur
• Review of Seasonal Associate (Saisonarbeit) in the New Yorker (19 November 2018)