Denis Scheck

Denis Scheck (* December 15, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German literary critic and journalist in radio and television.

Life

Age of 13, founded a literary magazine called check Newlands.

Training

Denis Scheck studied German, History and Political Science at the Universities of Tübingen and Dusseldorf and at the University of Texas at Dallas, and graduated Ragtime Master of Arts from the local Center for Translation Studies with a thesis on Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and EL Doctorow.

Profession

Denis Scheck has worked as a literary agent, translator American and British authors, editors and freelance critic. Since 1997 he has been the literary editor at the Germany radio, where he regularly hosts the program book market and on Fridays the bestseller list of the mirror commented. The television viewers he is Druckfrisch known primarily as a moderator of Books magazine, which will be broadcast since February 9, 2003 monthly in first.

From 2000 to 2002 Denis Scheck was a member of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt. In 2004 he began a two- semester Visiting Professor of literary criticism at the University of Göttingen. 2000 Denis Scheck was awarded the Critics' Prize of the German Anglistentages. In 2007 he received the translator bark of the Association of German translator of literary and scientific works ( VdÜ ) "for his sustained, supported not only expertise, but also with wit and charm already put forward commitment to the concerns of literary translators, particularly in their long-standing dispute with the publishers to adequate remuneration for their work. "

Awards

  • 2000: Critics' Prize of the German Anglistentages
  • 2007: translator bark of the Association of German Translator
  • 2011: German Television Award in the category of special service, together with Andreas Ammer
  • 2012: Special Prize of the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for his mission off the press in the ARD. Ceremony on 10 October 2012 in Hamburg.
  • 2013: Bavarian Television Award for his mission off the press in the ARD. Ceremony on 17 May 2013, Munich.
  • 2014: Hildegard -von -Bingen Prize for Journalism

Controversy

After his scathing review of the novel An old dream of love of Nuala O'Faolain, who had been a few days earlier praised by Elke Heidenreich, Heidenreich check referred to in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2003 as " hysterical Rolltreppendickerchen " and " Tchibo literature representatives ". Heidenreich had checks final comment that the book is right for " an old box ," referring to himself. Cheque denied that he had Heidenreich meant, but also said: "I see it [ ... ] not as a colleague, because she is not a literary critic. In their literature is a remedy for psychological injuries. For me, literature is not there to hinwegzutrösten us about our Seelenwehwehchen. "

Writings

  • King Kong, Spock & Drella, Straelen / Niederrhein 1993
  • Hell's Kitchen, Augsburg 1994
  • She & He, London [ua ] 2011 (along with Eva Gritzmann )

Editorship

  • Incident at Luna City, Stuttgart, 1983 ( co-edited with Uwe Luserke )
  • From the difficult pleasures of poetry, Straelen 1997 ( co-edited with Sabine Kuchler )
  • Conjectures about the poetry, Frankfurt am Main 1999 ( co-edited with Hubert Winkels )
  • David Foster Wallace: Little girl with funny hair, Cologne 2001
  • Robert Gernhardt: Sea of Robert Gernhardt, Frankfurt, M. 2007
  • Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde for Wicked, Frankfurt, M. [ua ] 2007 ( co-edited with Christina Schenk)

Translations

  • Steven Bauer: Satyrtag, Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Alison Bechdel: Fun Home, Cologne 2008 ( translated together with Sabine Kuchler )
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley: Fantastic realities, Waiblingen 1992
  • Simon Brett: Loving life threatening, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Cologne 1988
  • Michael Chabon: Ocean Avenue, Cologne 1992
  • Arthur Bertram Chandler: Adventure edge Welt, Munich 1 Grimes travels into infinity, 1983
  • 2 Grimes to El Dorado, 1983
  • 3 Grimes makes a career in 1983
  • 4 Grimes in Paradise of Death, 1983
  • 5 Grimes with the rebels of Sparta, 1984
  • 6 Grimes and the forgotten colony, 1984
  • 8 Grimes and the love drug, 1984
  • 9 Grimes against the pirate queen, 1984
  • 10 Grimes in a dangerous mission, 1984
  • 12 Grimes, privateer of Outer Space, 1985
  • 14 Grimes and the last Amazone, 1985
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