Heike Geißler
Photo: Heike Steinweg/ Suhrkamp Verlag
Curriculum
Heike Geißler's writing revolves around individual and social power relations. Starting from the unequal distribution of capital, precarious living and working conditions, or the strengthening of neo-fascist movements, Geißler's texts deal with existing, but also and above all: non-existing forces. They address exhaustion and powerlessness and investigate techniques for managing resources and making powers (re)available.
Heike Geißler is author, translator and co-editor of the series "Lücken kann man lesen". She works in artistic collaborations, including the literary project "Check your habitus" and in the "Kollektiv George Bele". She has been a guest lecturer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, the Institut für Sprachkunst at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien and the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Heike Geißler has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships including the Alfred-Döblin-Förderpreis (2001) and the Förderpreis zum Lessing-Preis des Freistaates Sachsen (2023).
Publications (selection)
- Liegen. Eine Übung. Berlin 2022.
- Die Woche. Roman. Leipzig 2022.
- Saisonarbeit. Leipzig 2014.
- Nichts, was tragisch wäre. München 2007.
- Rosa. Roman. Stuttgart/München 2002.