Ursula Krechel

Statement on the occasion of 2 August 2021, Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma

Biographie
Ursula Krechel studied Geman philology, theatre studies, art history and received her doctorate from the University of Cologne. Afterwards she was a theatre dramaturge. Since the 1980s, Ursula Krechel has taught many times, she was a visiting professor at Warwick University/England, and in 1989/90 she gave lectures on poetics in Vienna, which were included in the volume “Playing with the Father’s Body”. In 1991 she was writer-in-residence at Washington University St. Louis/USA, in 1993/94 poet-in-residence at the University of Essen, 1997-1999 visiting professor at the German Literature Institute at Leipzig University, 1998-2001 and again in 2008-2011 director of the Prose Workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin, 2002 Escriptora convidada in Barcelona, in the summer semester 2007 Research Fellow at Washington University St. Louis/USA. Ursula Krechel is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt and Vice-President of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz.