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Roman Ehrlich
Roman Ehrlich, born 1983 in Bavaria, studied creative writing and contemporary German literature in Leipzig and Berlin. His first novel Das kalte Jahr (‘The Cold Year’) was published in 2013, followed by the short-story collection Urwaldgäste (‘Jungle Guests’) in 2014. In 2017, Ehrlich published the novel Die fürchterlichen Tage des schrecklichen Grauens (‘The Dreadful Days of the Ghastly Horror’) as well as Das Theater des Krieges (The Theatre of War) together with photographer Michael Disqué. He has won several literary prizes, including the Ernst Toller-Preis in 2016 and the Alfred Döblin-Medaille in 2017. Roman Ehrlich was DAAD Writer in Residence at the Universities of Lancaster and Liverpool in February 2018.