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Juli Zeh


Born
in Bonn, Germany
June 30, 1974

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Juli Zeh is a German novelist.

Her first book was Adler und Engel (in English: Eagles and Angels), which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel.

Juli Zeh has lived in Leipzig since 1995. Zeh studied human rights law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen - comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam - in 2003. She also has a degree from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 76,209 ratings · 5,160 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.55 avg rating — 4,573 ratings — published 2017 — 29 editions
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Nullzeit
3.54 avg rating — 4,570 ratings — published 2012 — 32 editions
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3.63 avg rating — 3,389 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions
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Spieltrieb
3.74 avg rating — 3,258 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions
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Schilf
3.67 avg rating — 2,118 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions
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Adler und Engel
3.42 avg rating — 1,866 ratings — published 2001 — 48 editions
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“Alle Wege führen zur Erkenntnis der Nichtigkeit aller Dinge, aber keiner führt zurück.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb
tags: knowledge, nihilism
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“Wenn ich in Unterleuten eins gelernt habe, dann dass jeder Mensch ein eigenes Universum bewohnt, in dem er von morgens bis abends recht hat.”
― Juli Zeh, Unterleuten
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“Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb
tags: fatalism, game, responsibility
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