Reinhard Jirgl

Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer.

[2] He worked as a lighting and service technician at the Volksbühne in Berlin.

[2] After submitting his first novel Mutter Vater Roman to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history".

[3] In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature.

[4] His 2013 novel Nichts von euch auf Erden was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.