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Stefan Hornbach
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Stefan Hornbach (*1986 in Speyer) studied theater studies in Munich, acting at the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and literary writing at Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. In 2015, he won the Osnabrück Dramatist Prize with his play „Over My Dead Body“, followed by invitations to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Autorentheatertage at Deutsches Theater Berlin, as well as translations into four languages and a radio play production. In 2016, he was awarded the Schiller Memorial Prize and received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation. His theater texts have been performed at the Casino of the Burgtheater Vienna, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, DNT Weimar and Nationaltheater Mannheim, among others. In 2021, his debut novel „Den Hund überleben“ was published by Hanser, for which Stefan Hornbach was awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize.

photo: Stefan Hornbach
photo: Vera Vorneweg

In Schöppingen, he worked on his second novel, which deals with social expectations of masculinity and various aspects of queer life and desire, such as internalized feelings of shame, intoxication and cruising.