Finn Job

Finn Job (*1995 in Hanover) has lived in Berlin since 2014, where he temporarily studied German literature, philosophy, comparative literature, art history, and art studies. Today he lives as an intellectual autodidact and writer in the southwest of the city. He has worked as an editor, as a bartender in several techno clubs, as an ice cream seller, and until the end of 2022 as a waiter at the Joseph-Rth-Diele.Today Job writes for the magazine Cicero and the newspaper Berliner Zeitung. His first novel “Hinterher” was published in August 2022 by Klaus Wagenbach Verlag and was named Book of the Month by Schweizer Monat. In addition, it received numerous positive reviews, among others in taz, on Deutschlandfunk, and in Die Presse.

For his second novel, a play written in prose that he is currently working on under the working title “Damenschach,” Job combines elements of the Commedia dell’arte with the techniques of modern storytelling, the doppelgänger literature of the 19th century, the grotesque, and the screwball comedy. Five characters meet at a dinner party in a remote villa in the Vienna Woods and discuss the contentious issues of the present.