Kevin Vennemann

Kevin Vennemann ( * 1977 in Dorsten ) is a German author.

  • 2.1 stories, novels
  • 2.2 Contributions ( selection)
  • 2.3 radio works
  • 2.4 reviews, essays
  • 2.5 translations
  • 2.6 As editor

Life and work

Vennemann is German - Austrian origin. He studied German, English, Jewish Studies and history in Cologne, Innsbruck, Berlin and Vienna. In 2002 he debuted with the short story collection Wolf Children's Rings, in the fall of 2005, his first novel, Near Jedenew appeared. In June 2006 he was a participant of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition and read the excerpt from In composing a new novel project.

This novel was published under the title Mara Kogoj in spring 2007 and varies discussed ( Der Tagesspiegel, March 4, 2007: " ' Mara Kogoj ' is handicrafts, turned into clever and well meant to only be good even nearly. "; Berliner Zeitung, March 20, 2007: " ' Mara Kogoj ' is literature in its most significant form. "; Frankfurter Rundschau, March 21, 2007: " It could be this focused, clever novel also call a ' composition for three voices and tape recorder ', because his narrative rhythm is the fast forward and rewind and determines the cyclic variations of the central motifs. . "; Concretely, April 2007: " He manages to do the unthinkable to the Jewish destruction of oppressive moments tangible Vennemann's unsettling rhythmic variations, sound like and keep. breath "; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 19, 2007: " Kevin Vennemann's magnificent novel ' Mara Kogoj ' ").

In addition, in May 2007 had a radio play called on both sides in the Bavarian Radio Premiere ( Directed by: Ulrich lamps, Music: Hans Platzgumer ). Important elements of writing Vennemann's are - according to the largely apolitical, little experimental debut Wolf Children's Rings - language games and narrative sections that dissolve clear narrative, as well as an anti-fascist and anti-national aspect of the themes and motifs: "I like the raised finger in principle quite like as a reader because I think that various social evils there are more worthy to be developed as a personally -experienced. " ( sick of standing with my hands in my pockets, Interview with Kevin Vennemann, BELLA triste No. 15, summer 2006).

Since summer 2009, Vennemann is a graduate student of literature at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The nearly one hundred forty -page book was not initially considered large. This changed with an emphatic meeting by Helmut Böttiger with which this turned out the importance of the book clear: " [ ... ] after the first few pages is clear: This is by far the best literary text generated by in recent years is a published under the Thirty Years. " ( Böttiger, disintegration of all collateral, Germany radio culture, book review, December 28, 2005). Through a little later published a half -page meeting as lead story of the literary part of the TIME (Georg Diez, The nicest saddest story, The TIME 12 January, 2006 ) feuilleton and readership continued to draw attention to the book, making it by autumn 2006 already in four requirements could appear. Near Jedenew describes how two Jewish girls experience a pogrom in her family. Hidden in a tree house watching the destruction of their familiar environment and refuge in memories of the past.

The critic Georg Kasch put in a review for the weekly Friday the literary rank of the book and the Vennemann's prose characterizing strategy of radical re-presentation of the past in the center of his discussion: "In the end, even if the existence of the narrator was destroyed, life is and death of the family for the reader become very present and palpable. In it, not in the genesis of the novel resembles the great texts WG Sebald: He manages to do the unthinkable to the Jewish destruction of oppressive moments tangible. Vennemann's rhythmic variations disturb, sound like and keep in suspense. " ( Kasch, appeal of fiction, Friday, 7 April 2006).

Several occasions, but not in the literature review of feature articles, the presumption was raised that described in Near Jedenew fictional pogrom should remember that actually happened one massacre in Jedwabne, Poland on 10 May 1944. Vennemann's remarks on these assumptions are not known.

Works

Stories, novels

  • Wolf Children's Rings, stories, Cologne (tropical Verlag) 2002.
  • Mara Kogoj, Roman. Frankfurt ( Suhrkamp Verlag) 2007.
  • Sunset Boulevard. From the movies, building and dying in Los Angeles. Berlin ( Suhrkamp Verlag), 2012.

Contributions ( selection)

  • And so was the matter of the cornfield, narrative, in: Michael Zöllner, Leander Scholz ( ed.): Act Ex, Reinbek 2000
  • On the cherry blossom tree, narrative, in: BELLA triste No. 4, Hildesheim, Fall 2002
  • Hiding, narrative, in: Susann deer (ed.): All tinsel, Munich 2002 /2003;
  • That storm Hard Kubel, narrative. In: Jörn Morisse, Stefan Rehberger (ed.): Driving home for Christmas, Frankfurt am Main 2006

Radio works

  • On both sides, radio play. Bayerischer Rundfunk 2007
  • Peter O. Chotjewitz. West German radio in 2007
  • The Voice of the Poor, Sami Berdugo, radio essay. Bayerischer Rundfunk 2007
  • Eva Hesse and the romance, radio essay. Bayerischer Rundfunk 2007
  • Sunset Boulevard - as the architectural photographer Julius Shulman a whole Modern destroyed, radio essay. Bayerischer Rundfunk 2008

Reviews, essays

  • The order of the snow. Geographies. About Andreas Münzners novel The height of the Alps, in: Wasps Nest 141, December 2005
  • Else Lasker-Schüler: I and I. Works and Letters, in: Wasps Nest 133, December 2003
  • Andrea Krauss: A frangible handing down, in: Wasps Nest 133, December 2003
  • Eighty million friends you have to be. About National delusion and Zwangskollektivismus in advance of a German World Cup ( with Sebastian Bischoff ), in: Ballesterer FM, Issue 21, Summer 2006

Translations

  • Benjamin Kunkel and Keith Gessen (ed.): The next step. The n 1 anthology. From the American Kevin Vennemann. Frankfurt ( Suhrkamp Verlag) 2008.
  • Mark Griffin: Blue Screen. Essays. From the American Kevin Vennemann. Berlin ( Suhrkamp Verlag) 2011.

As editor

  • Else Lasker-Schüler: IchundIch. Edited by Karl Jürgen Skrodzki and Kevin Vennemann. Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt am Main, 2009.

Awards

  • 2003: Prize for mother tongue German -speaking authors of the Integration Fund of the City of Vienna and the association exile
  • 2004: Klagenfurt Literature Course
  • 2006: Residence Scholarship Foundation Hombroich
  • 2006: Slovenia Residence Scholarship of the Foundation Brandenburger Tor
  • 2006: GWK literature
  • 2007: Award for Heimrad Baker price
  • 2009: Margaret Schrader Price

Interviews with Kevin Vennemann

  • Knowing what, interview by Ilka Schröder, Sebastian Bischoff and Hartmut Burggrabe, in: concrete 06/2006
  • Sick of standing with my hands in my pockets, interview by Katrin Zimmermann, in: BELLA triste No. 15, 2006
  • From Germany to Ljubljana. The young writer Kevin Vennemann interested in the history of Eastern Europe, Interview by Stephanie von Oppen, Germany Kultur, Radio feuilleton Profile, November 8, 2006

Other public appearances

  • 2014: guest at Judge John Hodgman podcast, episode 154: " Visitation Rights "
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