Travel / Scholarships / Teaching
| 1984/85 | Exchange student in Pennsylvania and South Carolina / USA |
| 1994 | Scholarship at the University of Amsterdam jacksonvillejaguarsjerseys |
| 1997 | Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation (for the novel Spielzone) |
| 1998 | Scholarship from the Käthe Dorsch Foundation (for poetry) |
| 1998-2000 | Scholarship from the Berlin Senate for residence abroad: time split between Barcelona and Berlin |
| 2000 | Scholarship at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles / USA |
| 2001 | Scholarship from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture Writer in residence at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania / USA |
| 2002 | Scholarship of the Brandenburg Gate Foundation in Prague / Czech Rep. Scholarship at the Baltic Centre on the island of Gotland / Sweden |
| 2004-2005 | Residency at Villa Decius in Krakow / Poland |
| 2005 | Residency on the north German island of Sylt |
| 2006 | Residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop (East German coast) |
| 2007 | DAAD writer in residence in Bristol / UK „Het Beschrijft“-writer-in-residence in Vollezele / Belgium Scholarship of the Robert Bosch Foundation to Sibiu, Romania |
| 2010 | Visiting lecturer at the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst (ISBK) „Oskar Kokoschka“ in Salzburg |
| 2011 | Travel-Scholarship from the Allianz Culture Foundation to Nicosia / Cyprus Invitation of the Foundation EVZ to Kiev |
| 2012 | „Lenka Reinerova“-Scholarship for german authors to Prague by the Prager Literaturhaus / Pražský literární dům |
| 2013 | Visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, German studies department |
| 2015 | Visiting lecturer at Miami University, Ohio, German studies department |