Maurus Jacobs was born in Albany, California, in 1997. After graduating from high school, he worked as a reporter in Hamburg. He studied in Havana, Leipzig and Kyoto.
In 2022, he received the “Spaltmaße” scholarship from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation in the field of literature. In spring 2023, he completed his studies in literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and is currently working on his PhD at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Most recently, he was awarded the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing and the Retzhof Prize for Young Literature.
For the writing project Sommerloch ’24 he developed the mini drama Der Vorfall.
Maurus Jacobs participated in the Drama Lab 2024 within the programme of Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe. New Voices. For this project he is wrote his play “die sprache”, which was presented at the Wortstattnächten 24 in November 2024 in a stage reading and is available in our Edition Goldstück.
Photo credits: Anna Zehetgruber