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Jaroslav Rudiš is Storm-Schreiber


The Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš, born in 1972, has been awarded the Storm Schreiber Stipendium. After Marion Poschmann, Christiane Neudecker and Felicitas Hoppe, he is the fourth holder of the residency scholarship, which was awarded for the first time in 2019. In autumn 2025, Jaroslav Rudiš will move into Dr. Annemarie Hansen’s listed Dreiseithof in Husum-Rödemis.

Jaroslav Rudiš, who learnt German as a teenager and now writes in German, is one of the most renowned contemporary Czech authors. In 2007, he was voted one of the thirty most important people in the Czech Republic. This year, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the first class on the bank holidays.

His novel “Winterbergs letzte Reise” was nominated for the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. The passionate railway traveller Rudiš tells the story of the melancholy railway journey of a 99-year-old Berliner and his carer through the history of Central Europe in the 20th century, based on the last edition of the Baedeker for Austria-Hungary from 1913, which perished in the First World War. The book “Weihnachten in Prag”, published in 2023, tells of a magical and tragicomic walk through snow-covered Prague on Christmas Eve, during which the narrator encounters old and new stories of the famous city everywhere. The book was illustrated by Rudiš’ friend Jaromir 99 (Jaromir Švejdik), with whom he also created the multi-volume graphic novel “Alois Nebel”, which was successfully adapted into a film. Both also play in the “Kafka Band”, which they founded and which has set Kafka’s three novels to music and is extremely popular in the Czech Republic.

Scholarship

The Storm-Schreiber-Stipendium (Storm Writer Scholarship), which is endowed with 7,500 euros, was awarded for the first time in 2019. The founder is Dr. Annemarie Hansen from Husum-Rödemis.

In addition to funding, the scholarship also includes a four-week stay in a spacious 4-star apartment on a so-called Dreiseithof (three sided farm) within walking distance of the Storm landscape of the Südermarsch.

Awarding the scholarship to a contemporary author of German literature, is coupled with hope that the encounter with Storm’s landscape can become a literarily productive one.

Scholarship holders

Marion Poschmann

Storm-Schreiberin 2019

©Heike Steinweg

Christiane Neudecker

Storm-Schreiberin 2021

©Maurizio Gamberini

Felicitas Hoppe

Storm-Schreiberin 2023

©Ekko von Schwichow