Ingo Schulze

Ingo Schulze ( * December 15, 1962 in Dresden) is a German writer.

Life

Schulze, son of a physics professor and a doctor grew, after the divorce of the parents with his mother. After graduating from high school, which he completed in 1981 at the Dresden Kreuz school, he completed his military service in the NVA; to 1988, he studied classical philology at the University of Jena. Then was Schulze for two years as a dramaturg at the State Theatre Altenburg, which he left to work as a journalist: In 1990, he was co-founder of the "independent newspaper" Altenburger weekly paper, which was published until the autumn of 1991, as well as an offer sheet called indicator; both were published in Altenburger publisher whose business Schulze led until the end of 1992. In early 1993 he was commissioned by a businessman to Russia, where he launched the newspaper ad Привет Петербург ( Privet Petersburg). Since the mid- 90s Schulze is a freelance writer in Berlin. He and his wife have two daughters.

Work

His experience from the time in Saint Petersburg included in Schulze's a first book publication. The stories in 33 Moments of Happiness (1995 ) are located in the vicinity of the Russian city. Schulze uses both a publisher fiction that a literate journalists from Germany ascribes to his lyrics, which had disappeared in Saint Petersburg. The short story collection was reacted favorably by critics. His published in 1998, Simple Stories play in Altenburg, Thuringia, where Schulze had lived and worked; at the center of the consequences of turning stand on the lives of his characters, their presentation was the lack of any " Nachwendeweinerlichkeit " attests. Coined the text was a style that the reviewer described as merciless and accurate, the author had homemade " things easier this short-story - tone [ of ] " as. Günter Grass praised Schulze after the publication of the work as one of the " great storyteller " of the new federal states.

After the publication of several stories followed until 2005 the next novel New Life. It tells the story of the author and newspaper editor Enrico watchman, of a friend, his sister and a lover writes in the year of German reunification. Schulze runs again in the position of a publisher's back, which had the letters that make up the novel, simply prepared; he uses it one typical of the epistolary novel of the 18th century artifice whose reactivation was welcomed by the critics not unanimous. While FAZ critic Richard Kämmerlings asked, " Is not there still a bit stale ," saw Jörg Magenau of the daily paper in this link the " real [n ] highlight of the novel ." The plant located some reviewers, not always without irony, as the long-awaited " ultimate turning novel" one.

On the occasion of the 800 anniversary of his birth city of Dresden wrote Ingo Schulze for MDR Figaro a broadcast on 3 May 2006 essay on " myth Dresden " entitled Night Thoughts. Schulze also participated in the exhibition " Myth Dresden " in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden.

Schulze's short story collection phone. 13 stories in the old style that came to stores in 2007, provoked almost unanimous praise. So she judged about Volker Weidermann in the Sunday newspaper, compared with New Life, as " casual, just very, very beautifully written easier, quieter and ".

For wide attention in the national media made ​​Schulze's acceptance speech for the Thuringian Prize for Literature in 2007, in which he addressed the growing importance of sponsorship in the cultural sector with simultaneous withdrawal of the state from this.

Schulze's latest novel, Adam and Evelyn received along with five other finalists nominated for the German Book Prize 2008.

Schulze's 2010 short story collection published oranges and angels. Italian sketches has arisen in connection with a grant stay of the author at the Villa Massimo in Rome. It involves narratives in which most ordinary people from the metropolitan Roman environment are the focus; the stories present themselves as actual experiences of the author, are told in the first person singular; However, they leave this autobiographical pattern then almost imperceptibly, be profound, most also have an ambiguous conclusion.

Political statements

Early 2012 were very respected Ingo Schulze published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung theses against the plundering of the Company and its Dresdner speech Against the market-based democracy.

Publications

• The Herakles theme in the " aesthetics of resistance". In: Scientific Journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena ( social and linguistic series ) 36 Vol 1987, Issue 3, pp. 417-422.
• 33 Moments of happiness. For the adventurous records of the Germans in Piter. Berlin, Berlin Verlag 1995, ISBN 978-3-8270-0050-7. As dtv Paperback, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-12354-0.
• Simple Stories. A novel from the eastern province. Berlin, Berlin Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-8270-0051-4.
• The letter from my landlady. Eulogy to Joshua Reichert. In: Sense and mold 52, 2000, H. 3, S. 435-442.
• From noses, faxing and Ariadne threads. Drawings and fax letters. With Helmar Penndorf. Berlin, Peace Auer Press 2000, ISBN 978-3-932109-16-4.
• Reading and Writing or "Is not it idiotic to write seven or even eight months working on a novel when you can buy for two dollars a in any bookstore? " In Ute -Christine Krupp, Ulrike Janssen ( ed. ): First 'm I always readers. Prose writing today. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, ​​2000, ISBN 3-518-12201-0, pp. 80-101.
• Mr. Neitherkorn and destiny. Berlin, Ed. Marianne Press 2001, ISBN 3-926433-25-6 ( ISBN formally wrong )
• I would not read it, I would not write. Meranier -Gymnasium, Lichtenfels 2002.
• New life. The youth Enrico Türmers in letters and prose. Berlin, Berlin Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-8270-0052-1.
• Night Thoughts. On 3 May 2006 sent by MDR Figaro Essay
• Phone. Thirteen Stories in the old manner. Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0720-9.
• My Copernican revolution. In: Renatus Deckert (ed.): The first book. Writers about their literary debut. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45864-8.
• Signor Candy Man. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 5, 2008
• One, two, one more story / n With Imre Kertész and Péter Esterházy. Berlin, Berlin Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0787-2.
• Pop icon. In: Thomas Kraft (ed.): Beat Stories. Munich, Blumenbar 2008, ISBN 978-3-936738-36-0.
• Thousand stories are not enough. Leipzig Poetics Lecture 2007. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, ​​2008, ISBN 978-3-518-06966-0.
• Almost a fairy tale. In: Sinn und Form, 60, 2008, 4, pp. 453-457.
• Adam and Evelyn. Berlin, Berlin Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0810-7.
• The Lord Augustin. With Julia Penndorf (Illustrator), Bloomsbury Children's Books. Berlin, Berlin Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-5329-9.
• What do we want? Essays, speeches, sketches Berlin, Berlin Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0054-5.
• One Night at Boris published in the series: Books to Go, Berlin, German Taschenbuch Verlag, April 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-08222-8.
• After the flood. Speech at the presentation of the Anna Seghers Prize to Luke Bärfuss. In: Sinn und Form, 61, 2009, H. 3, S. 413-419
• Oranges and angels. Italian sketches. With Matthias Hoch (Photography ), Berlin, Berlin Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0916-6.
• Our beautiful new clothes. For a market-based democracy - for democracy compliant markets, Hanser Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3446240919
• Henkerslos. A tale breviary. Hanser Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24405-4. ( Together with Christine Trotter. Illustrated by Sebastian people Moser ).

• Rescue from the rainforest? ZDF / 3sat in 2011, along with Christine Trotter. ( Documentary on Terra preta Burnout -. Exhausted Planet Original Air Date November 12, 2011, 45 minutes).