Awards
- Scholarship holder of the Bartels Foundation at the "Kleiner Margräfler Hof", Basel, 2024
- Writer in Residence of Centro Studi Ligure at Villa Pini, Bogliasco, Genoa, 2004 and 2022.
- 2nd prize of the DELIA Literature Award for "The Song of Immortal Love" 2015
- Corine International Book Award for "When I Fell from the Sky" 2011
- Scholarship holder of the Fundaciòn Valparaiso, Mojacàr, Spain 2010
- Writer in Residence at the Artist's Colony I-Park, East Haddam Connecticut, USA 2009
- Thomas Strittmacher Screenplay Award 2008
- Writer in Residence of the Bundanon Artist's Enclave in Australia 2008
- Comburg writer of the city of Schwäbisch Hall 2007
- Writer in Residence at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland 2007
- Writer in Residence at the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation at the Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne, Switzerland 2005
- Writer in Residence of the Ledig House Foundation in Art/Omi, New York, USA 2003
- Würth Literature Prize 2002
- Scholarship of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg 1997
- Scholarships from the Förderkreis Deutscher Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg 1996, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2018