Julia Wolf holds a degree in North American Studies, Latin American Studies, and German Literature from Freie Universität Berlin. She lives as a freelance writer in Berlin and has published stories in magazines and anthologies. She has been given various fellowships and grants for her writing by, among others, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and Hessischer Literaturrat.
Her first play Der Du premiered at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 2010 and was produced as a radio play for German public radio in 2011. In 2010 Wolf was invited to take part in a writer’s workshop (Werkstatttage) at Burgtheater in Vienna. The play she developed during the workshop Ein Mädchen namens Elvis was invited to the festival Autorentheatertage at Deutsches Theater in 2011.
Wolf has written and produced various radio plays, including the series “Happy End” commissioned by three major radio broadcasting stations, NDR, SWR, and WDR. In 2012 she received a grant from Film – und Medienstiftung NRW (together with co-writer and co-director Ragnhild Sørensen) to write, direct, and produce a radio play for WDR. The result of this collaboration, the play Frauen ohne Männer, was first aired in June 2013.
In 2012 Wolf also received a grant from Filmförderanstalt (FFA) for her screenplay for a feature film entitled Esperanza. She is currently developing the screenplay in cooperation with Berlin-based production company Rohfilm.
Her first novel Alles ist Jetzt (Everything is Now) was published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt in spring 2015 and was awarded with the Lotto Brandenburg’s Kunstpreis Literatur 2015. In 2015 Wolf was a fellow of Hessischer Literaturrat in Cetate, Romania as well as at MacDowell. For 2016 she has received the Alfred Döblin Stipendium by Akademie der Künste and fellowships at Künstlerhaus Edenkoben and Schriftstellerhaus Stuttgart.
