The writer Steffen Mensching, who was born in Berlin, will receive the Berlin Literature Prize of the Prussian Maritime Dealership Foundation this year. The foundation announced this on Monday afternoon at an online press conference. The honor goes to an author who caused a sensation in the GDR in 1984 with his poetry debut “Remembrance of a milk glass pane”, who questioned the official teachings in a duo with Hans-Eckardt Wenzel as a clown and finally with novels such as “Jacobs Leiter” (2003 ) and “Humor’s Flight” (2005) showed that he also has staying power when it comes to storytelling. His most extensive and best work to date, the novel “Schermanns Augen” (2018), tells the story of a man who had to flee Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ended up in the Soviet Gulag – a great portrait of society and a picture of the times.
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