Christopher Kloeble (novelist, playwright, screen writer) born 1982 in Munich/Germany, studied in Dublin, at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig and at the University for Film and Television in Munich. He has written for Süddeutsche Zeitung, DIE ZEIT and tageszeitung. His plays U-Turn and Memory have been staged in major theatres in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg and Nuremberg. For his first novel Amongst Loners he won the Juergen Ponto-Stiftung prize for best debut 2008; his second book A Knock at the Door was published 2009. The third, Almost everything very fast, appeared in March 2012. His first movie script, Inclusion, was produced in 2011 and received a lot of attention.

Grants, Fellowships & Awards
2012 Writer-In-Residenc of NYU in New York; Writer-In-Residence of the German Book Office Delhi at Sangam house (India)
2011 Writer-In-Residence at Cambridge University (UK); Stipend of the German Literary Fonds for Almost everything very fast; Writer-In-Residence at the Künstlerhaus Lukas at the Baltic Sea/Germany
2010 nominated for the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize; Writer-In-Residence at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa; Writer-In-Residence of the Literary Colloquium Berlin
2009 Stipend of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Cadenabbia/Italy; Writer-In-Residence in Pouch Cove/Newfundland
2008 nominated for the Heidelberger Stückemarkt
2007 Stipend of the Bavarian Television
2004-2005 Writer-In-Residence of the city of Ranis/Germany

Select list of publications
2011 moviescript for "Inclusion"
2011 Short Story "In the eye" in "Washington Square Review"
2010 Essay "Leibgeschriebenes" in "Ich gründe eine Akademie für Selbstachtung" (PeterLang Verlag)
2010 Short Story "Eine kurze Geschichte über das Lieben" in "Lust.Liebe.Sex." (Beltz u. Gelberg)
2010 Short Story "Wenn es klopft" in "Urlaubslesebuch" (dtv)
2010 Short Story "Licht" in "Gothic - Darker Stories" (Beltz u. Gelberg)
2010 Short Story "Herr Erwig" in "Radiogeschichten" (Ö1)
2009 Short Stories "Wenn es klopft" (dtv premium)
2009 Hosentaschengeschichte #1 "Miami, nä" (Hosentaschen Verlag)
2009 Short Story "13:24:51" in "Gothic - Dark Stories" (Beltz u. Gelberg)
2009 Short Story "Zwanzig Sekunden Mathematik" in "Zeit der Witze" (Mitteldeutscher Verlag)
2008 Novel "Unter Einzelgängern" (dtv premium)
2008 Short Story "Die ewigen drei" in "Geschichten + Gerichte" (Dölling und Galitz Verlag)
2007 Play "Memory (Morgen war gestern)" (Drei Masken Verlag)
2007 Short Story "Easy Seller" in "Tippgemeinschaft" (Jahresanthologie des DLL)
2006 Play "Wenn möglich, bitte wenden" (Drei Masken Verlag)
2006 Short Story "Generalprobe" in "Ich siebenhändiger Mann" (quartus-Verlag)
2005 Short Story "Im Auge" in "Wissen und Gewissen" (Stämpfli Verlag)
2004 Short Story "Mein liebster Moment" in "Tippgemeinschaft" (Jahresanthologie des DLL)
2003 Short Story "Fred" in "Nehmt mich beim Wort" (C. Bertelsmann)

If you want to contact me: Kontakt(at)christopherkloeble.de

If you're interested in reading sample translations of my work in English:

The first chapter of my published novel Amongst Loners

The synopsis of my second book A Knock At The Door

The first chapter of my new novel A Hidden Man

My play Memory

Upcoming events

BOOK LAUNCH
Meistens alles sehr schnell
1.3.2012

Munich
Wortspiele
1.3.2012
8:30 pm

Berlin
LCB
2.3.2012
8 pm

Berlin
Book shop Leporello
10.3.2012
8 pm

Leipzig
Moritzbastei
15.3.2012
7 pm

Leipzig
book fair, mephisto 97, 6 stage
16.3.2012
10:15 pm

Leipzig
book fair, Ausgezeichnet!-stage
16.3.2012
3 pm

Leipzig
hinZ und kunZ
17.3.2012
8 pm

Ankara (Türkey)
Goethe Institut
5.4.2012

Izmir (Türkey)
Goethe Institut
9.4.2012

Berlin
Deutsch-Israelische Literaturtage
Deutsches Theater
25.4.2012
7:30 pm

FILM
Inklusion
ARD
23.5.2012
8:15 pm

Berlin
Kulturbrauerei, Soda Club
13.6.2012
8 pm