Caren Jeß, born in Eckernförde in 1985, studied German language and modern German literature in Freiburg i.Br and Berlin. She first appeared as a playwright in 2017, when she won third place in the Osnabrück Dramatists' Prize with her play Your Mother or The Scream of the Seagull. In 2018 she won the residency of the Munich Encouragement Award for German-language drama with Bookpink. With the Graz premiere production of Bookpink, she was nominated for the Mülheim Dramatist Prize in 2020 and declared Young Dramatist of the Year. The year before, she also won the Else Lasker-Schüler Play Prize for her play Der Popper and the taz Audience Jury Prize at the 26th Open Mike for Die Ballade von Schloss Blutenburg. Caren Jess lives in Dresden.
photo: Jewgeni Roppel