CKCU Literary News
Wednesday November 19th, 2025 with Hans G. Ruprecht
An in-depth interview with award winning poet, fiction writer and essayist Ulrike Schrimpf about her rigorous creative process in poetry.

ABOUT ME “And you wish to be a lover; and you wish to be a poet.” Virginia Woolf ♦️Ulrike Schrimpf, born in Berlin, Germany, studied General and Comparative Literature and French Philology in Berlin and Paris after private acting training . 
She has three sons and, after a long period in Vienna, Austria, has lived and worked as a freelance writer, literary critic, and lecturer in Augsburg, Germany, since the summer of 2023. 
Ulrike Schrimpf has published the novel *Lauter Ghosts * (Literatur Quickie Verlag: 2023), which received enthusiastic reviews in *Der Spiegel*, among others, as well as the accompanying play, represented by Hartmann and Stauffacher. She has also co-authored a collection of 
short stories, * Blinde Versuche über das Töten: von Menschen* (Literatur Quickie Verlag: 2023), with actor and illustrator Axel Holst, and the poetry collection *pariser sketches* with artist Johanna Hansen . je te flingue(edition melos: 2021, 4th edition 2022), as well as various other publications in the field of poetry, two narrative non-fiction books (Leykam and Südwest / Randomhouse), five children's novels (Aladin / Carlsen), conversations with Yasmina Reza (Libelle) and other literary studies publications, an anthology (Herder) and various specialist books (Springer). 
For her work she has received various awards and scholarships, including the Golden Pick Audience Award (FAZ and Chicken House), the Mira Lobe Scholarship, the Austrian 
Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture's Working Scholarship for Literature, the City of Vienna's Working Scholarship for Literature for 2022, and the Free State of Bavaria's Working Scholarship for Writers in 2024. In 2026, a young adult/all-ages novel by her will be published by Insel, Suhrkamp.  She is also writing a novel with the working title "When We Awoke," which is represented by Petra Eggers . Source https://www.ulrike-schrimpf.de/ Photo credit: Heike Blenk