Dr.
Jörg Albrecht

Jörg Albrecht is a writer and holds a doctorate in comparative literature. Born in Bonn, he grew up in Dortmund, lived in Vienna and Berlin, and currently resides in Münster.

He has written prose/novels, theater texts, radio plays, and essays on topics such as surveillance, precariousness, queerness, and urban development. Since 1998, he has received various literary awards and scholarships.

He has repeatedly staged his texts in performative formats. In 2007, he founded the theater collective copy & waste with Steffen Klewar, which was awarded the George Tabori Prize by the German government in 2018 for its work.

Since 2018, Albrecht has been managing director of the Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff Foundation and founding director of Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature (CfL). The CfL operates at the two Westphalian locations where the poet Droste-Hülshoff lived and worked: Burg Hülshoff in Havixbeck (Coesfeld district) and Haus Rüschhaus in Münster.

Since 2003, he has regularly served as a juror, for example for the Federal Theater Prize, the Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Prize of the LWL, and the German Publishing Prize, as well as in funding programs for literature and diversity. He is chairman of the board of the LiteraturRat NRW.