Born 1957 · Germany
Deutscher Buchpreis 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Sleeping Sun”
Thomas Lehr · 60 when first published
Novel · 637 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:Rudolf Zacharias travels to Berlin for the opening of an exhibition by his former student Milena Sonntag. Over a single day, a century of German history unfolds, from the battlefields of the First World War to present-day Berlin.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2010 · Shortlist
September, Fata Morgana
Thomas Lehr · 53 when first published
Novel · 426 pages · Politics, War, Family
AI-generated summary:Two fathers and two daughters: a German-American professor and his daughter Sabrina live in the United States, an Iraqi doctor and his daughter Muna in Baghdad. Nothing connects the families until both daughters are killed, in New York in 2001 and in Baghdad in 2004.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2005 · Shortlist
Thomas Lehr · 48 when first published
Novel · 368 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:On a sunny August day, a group of visitors emerges from the CERN research centre near Geneva to find that time has stopped and all of Europe is frozen. Seventy people are left awake in a still world.