Thomas Meinecke was born in Hamburg in 1955 and now lives near Munich and in Marseille. He has authored numerous novels and short stories published by Suhrkamp Verlag since 1986, most recently “Odenwald,” 2024. He is also a musician, with his band F.S.K. (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle) founded in 1980, whose albums have been released on Daniel Richter’s Buback Label since 2008 (most recently “Topsy Turvy,” 2023). Meinecke has also collaborated on many electronic projects with Move D since 1998, worked as a radio DJ hosting his own show on Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1985 to 2021), and DJed at urban nightclubs (Berghain, Robert Johnson, Pudel Club, Rote Sonne, etc.). At Berlin’s Theater Hebbel am Ufer, he ran the dialogic event series “Plattenspieler” from 2007 until the first lockdown in 2020; since fall 2022, the series has continued at Berlin’s Volksbühne. In the winter semester of 2011/12, he held the poetry lectureship at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (“Ich als Text,” edition suhrkamp, 2012). He has held residencies at universities in Europe and the U.S., most recently: Writer in Residence at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and poetry lectureship on gender at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He has been awarded numerous awards, including the 2020 Berlin Literature Prize (with a visiting professorship at the Free University of Berlin in the summer semester of 2022). A “Text + Kritik” volume on Thomas Meinecke was published in 2021, and the poetological reader “Oceanic Writing” (Verbrecher Verlag) in 2022.