Ursula März

In 2002 März joined the jury for the SWR-Bestenliste [de], a panel of influential literary critics providing a monthly recommended reading list for intellectually inclined television viewers. She remained a Bestenliste jury member for more than ten years. She served between 2004 and 2008 on the jury for the Klagenfurt-based Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. She was also, for a number of years, a member of the Clemens Brentano literary prize jury.

Since the start of the 1990s März has been working as a literary critic and feuilleton features journalist for publications such as the quarterly arts and culture journal Kursbuch, the daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. One highlight was a widely commended literary portrait she wrote for the Frankfurter Rundschau of the Swiss-born author Paul Nizon. Another piece that won powerful plaudits was her 1999 biographical essay, "Du lebst wie im Hotel" ("You live as though in an hotel") on the polymath-photographer Ré Soupault.

Ursula März's involvement in literary prizes extended beyond membership various of prize juries. In 1990 she won the Klagenfurt Critics' Award ("Klagenfurter Publizistik-Wettbewerb") for essay writing. She followed this up in 2005 with the Berlin prize for literary criticism, which arrived with a €10,000 bursary, and accompanied by a commendation of her "intelligent interpretations and all-encompassing understanding of literature and the world within which it exists".

Ursula März (born 1957) is a German author and literary critic-commentator.