Birger Sellin

Birger Sellin ( born 1 February 1973 in Berlin) was known as the German author of book publications, he is said to have written independently, despite his disability as autistic.

Life and work

Sellin has since the age of two - probably due to a postencephalitic Retardation - in his behavior characteristics of autism, which affect him greatly. Since August 1990, however, his parents see in the " mediated communication " a way to be able to communicate in writing with her son. The journalist Michael Klonovsky 1992 attention to the case and wrote the Hamburger Time magazine of 31 July 1992 an article about Birger Sellin.

Larger notoriety finally achieved by Sellin in 1993, edited by Michael Klonovsky book I want to be no more Inmich, which is said to have written Sellin independently with the help of assisted communication. The book was, with over 80,000 copies sold and translations in seven languages ​​very successful - but it also led to considerable controversy about the supported communication and, consequently, also to doubt the credibility regarding the authorship of Sellin. These controversies were not mitigated by two television broadcasts and Birger Sellin.

So Felix Kuballa turned for the WDR documentary as a rampant clods on the soul through Birger Sellin. The film received the 1995 Special Prize of the Minister of Culture of North Rhine -Westphalia. And on August 30, 1995, Sellin an appearance on the show Star TV with Günther Jauch, during which he was supported interviewed live from his mother, Jauch.

According to his book publications from 1993 and 1995 texts of Birger Sellin in a song on an album by the band Pur (1998 ), were used in a chamber opera (2000) and in an experimental broadcast radio play ( 2005).

On July 24, 2013, a feature on the now 40 -year-old Birger Sellin with the title in Star TV An autistic seeks contact with the outside world sent.

Bibliography

Autobiographical

• I want to be no more Inmich: Messages from an autistic dungeon. Edited by Michael Klonovsky. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3- 462-02289 -X
• I like a deserter autistic race: new messages to the people of the overworld. Edited by Michael Klonovsky. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02457-4

Dramatic edits

• I want to be no more Inmich out of here, a song by the band Pur using excerpts from I want in the album Mighty contain a lot of theater, 1998.
• Country never human. Chamber Opera. Texts: Birger Sellin. Music: Marc Schubring, concept and directed by Thomas Munster man. Premiere at Theater Osnabrück, 2000.
• I do not want to be inside me anymore - I do not wanna be inmich more. Experimental radio play by Darren Copeland as an attempt to acoustic implementation of the inner world of an autistic adopted with pieces from Birger Sellin texts. A production of radios Germany Berlin, 2005.