Friedrich Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius ( born February 13, 1943 in Rome ) is a German writer.
Life
Friedrich Christian Delius was born in Rome in 1943, where his father was pastor of the German Evangelical Church. He is the oldest of four siblings and grew from 1944 to 1958 in the Hessian Wehrda on. He gained 1963 ( Old country school Korbach ) The High School. From 1963 to 1970 he studied literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, where he studied with Walter Höllerer and in 1971 received his doctorate with a thesis on " The hero and his weather " Doctor of Philosophy. From 1970 to 1973 he worked as an editor in the publishing Klaus Wagenbach from 1973 to 1978 in the same function in the Red Book Publisher. Since 1978 he is a freelance writer.
Delius began in the 1960s with socially critical lyrics and documentary, strongly usually satirical texts. From 1964 to 1967 he took part in the last four sessions of group 47. Since the seventies, he writes mainly novels, often on topics from the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, for example, the German Autumn.
Friedrich Christian Delius is a member of the PEN center of Germany and since 1998 the German Academy for Language and Literature, and since 1997 a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg.
After many awards he has received the 2007 Joseph- Breitbach Prize, the highest prize Literature Prize for German -speaking authors. In 2011 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize in the German language area. The German Academy for Language and Poetry justified this, inter alia, the fact that he had a 'critical, resourceful and inventive observer [ ... ] explores the history of the German states of awareness in the 20th century in his novels and stories. "
Delius is married and the father of two daughters. He lives in Berlin and Rome.
Works
Authorship
- Answer for. Berlin 1965
- We entrepreneurs. Berlin 1966 ( together with Karl -Heinz Stanzick )
- If we, at Red Berlin 1969
- The hero and his weather. Munich 1971
- Our Siemens world. Berlin 1972
- Recipes for peacetime. Berlin / Weimar 1973 ( together with Nicolas Born and Volker of Törne )
- A banker on the run. Berlin 1975
- A hero of internal security. Reinbek 1981
- The invisible lightning. Berlin 1981
- Adenauer Platz. Reinbek 1984
- Some of the arguments in defense of the vegetable eaters. Berlin 1985
- Mogadishu window seat. Reinbek 1987
- Japanese escalators. Reinbek 1989
- The pears of Ribbeck. Reinbek 1991
- Assumption of public enemy. Reinbek 1992
- Self Portrait with airlift. Reinbek 1993
- The Sunday I Became World Champion. Reinbek 1994
- The walk from Rostock to Syracuse. Narrative. 1st edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-498-01302-5 ( paperback as: 1998, ISBN 978-3-499-22278-8 ).
- The future of words. Paderborn 1995
- The lure of words or Why I 'm still not a cynic. Berlin 1996
- America House and the dance around the women. Reinbek 1997
- The flutter tongue. Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-498-01310-6.
- Transit West Berlin. Berlin 1999 (together with Peter Joachim Lapp )
- The kingmaker. Berlin 2001
- Why do I always was right - and other errors. Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87134-466-4.
- My year as a murderer. Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-87134-458-3 (see also Georg Groscurth )
- The minute with Paul McCartney. Berlin 2005
- Prospero. Opera. Music: Luca Lombardi. UA 2006
- Portrait of the Mother as a young woman. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87134-556-3.
- The woman for whom I invented the computer. Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-642-2,
- The hero and his weather. An artificial agent and its ideological use in the novel of bourgeois realism, with a foreword by Wolf Haas. Wallenstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-1028-5.
- As the books have not helped. Biographical sketches. Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-735-1.
- The left hand of the Pope. Rowohlt, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-770-2.
Editorship
- Conservative in 30 days. Reinbek 1988