Matthias Politycki

Matthias Politycki ( born May 20, 1955 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer. He has published novels, stories, poems, essays, and audio books and is considered a world traveler among German authors. He was known primarily for his wives and his novel cruise Satire In 180 days around the world. His books have been translated into English, French and Italian; were much respected some of his articles, with whom he has engaged in debates of the feuilleton or excited them.

Life

Matthias Politycki grew up in Munich, where he attended the Maria -Theresia -Gymnasium. After graduation in 1974, he made the military service at the Infantry Battalion 541 in Neuburg / Donau from, decided after his first military exercise, however, to refuse military service and later was recognized on 21 December 1977 as a conscientious objector. From 1975 to 1987 he studied modern German literature, philosophy, theater and communication studies at the Universities of Munich and Vienna. In 1981, he earned a master's degree, in 1987 he earned his doctorate at Walter Müller- Seidel in Munich with a thesis on revaluation of all values ​​? German literature in the judgment of Nietzsche as a doctor of philosophy. After three semesters of teaching as Assistant Professor at the Munich Institute of German Philology, he moved in 1990 to the occupation of independent writer, taking until 1999 or as a fixed freelance editor for the publishing house CH Beck in Munich worked. Matthias Politycki is a member of PEN Center Germany. He lives in Hamburg and Munich.

Literary work

With his 1987 released, highly acclaimed debut novel from cases / decomposition of the rainbow. A Entwickelungsroman Politycki was celebrated in the criticism of a highly reflected prose piece in imitation of Arno Schmidt and James Joyce. Already in the early 1990s, the "form fixed avant-gardist " then repeatedly vehemently against this write-up, he called for " Literature must be like rock music ", advocated a "New legibility " of the German literature, which triggered a broad feuilleton debate from.

The novel was published in 1997 women finally became a bestseller and " cult novel " and is regarded as a central text of literary postmodernism in Germany. Politycki established with the novel also its reputation as " eminent humorist " and " acrobat of memory." He also broke the women 's novel a debate on the so-called " 78s generation ", which he in succession and in strict delimitation of the ethos heavy '68 situate.

With his 2005 Cuba published novel Lord of the horns Politycki then put a " Dionysian exuberant mammoth novel" before, which tells of the struggle for survival of an enlightened European in an era marked by archaic rituals culture. However, on the popular success of his wives he could only novel with his 2008 picaresque novel in 180 days around the world build in which he can describe " the rituals of the rich and the super rich contemporary Simplicissimus " one.

2013 appeared Samarkand Samarkand, in his own words a work that Matthias Politycki already afflicts half of his life. The novel leads in the year 2026 and into the fabled Samarkand. Alexander Kaufner, Mountaineer commuters dain embarks on the search for a mysterious place of worship. " Samarkand, Samarkand is an eloquent, colorful oriental travel and adventure story, which penetrates to the heart of darkness. "

When his literary models Politycki has among other things Called Laurence Sterne, Diderot, Gottfried Benn and Vladimir Nabokov and in recent years also Ernest Hemingway. Politycki has also presented an extensive lyric work with which he has repeatedly denied stage programs: 1996/ 97, he joined forces with Robert Gernhardt in the poetry program Wine, Women and Song on the 2004/2005 with Hellmuth Opitz and Steffen Jacobs in the program women. Well. Difficult. From 2000 to 2005, Politycki - he repeatedly sought the aesthetic or poetic discussion with contemporaries - also the "Untitled" meetings of writers, editors and critics held at Schloss Elmau. In 2011 he was curator at the Literature Festival in Munich.

Awards

Matthias Politycki was for his first novel failures / decomposition of the rainbow. A Entwickelungsroman among others in 1987 with the Civitas Prize for Literature in 1988 and awarded the Bavarian State Prize for Literature. He has received numerous scholarships at home and abroad, including in Denmark, Austria and the USA. The shipping company Hapag -Lloyd awarded in 2006 for the first time the location of a ship clerk on her cruise ship to Europe Politycki Matthias, who thus had the opportunity as a writer- in -non- residence to participate in a six-month world tour. In 2009 he received the Ernst Hoferichter Prize and was Writer in Residence at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 2010 he was awarded the prize LiteraTour North. For the work on his novels Lord of the horns and Samarkand he received the 2004 and 2012/13 respectively a scholarship from the German Literature Fund.

Works

Novels and stories

  • Samarkand Samarkand, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40443-2.
  • Free float. Three stories, Svato Verlag, Hamburg, 2011. With 11 colored linocuts by Svato Zapletal.
  • Beyond novella, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-40194-3.
  • In 180 days around the world. The logbook of the Lord Johann Gottlieb Fichtl, marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2008
  • Lord of the horns. Novel, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2005
  • The silence at the other end of the trunk, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2001
  • A man of forty, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2000
  • Women 's novel, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 1997
  • The evil influence of Bifi sausage. An end and a sequel, publisher Ulrich Keicher ( = Red Thread 44) Warmbronn 1996
  • Typhoon Kyoto, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Hamburg 1993
  • Sunbathing in Siberia. Three-sided stories, Verlag Ulrich Keicher ( = Red Thread 30) Warmbronn 1991
  • For cases / decomposition of the rainbow. A Entwickelungsroman, Weismann Verlag, Munich 1987

Poetry

  • London for heroes. The Ale Trail - Expedition into the beer empire, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40323-7
  • The seconds after. 88 poems, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-40145-5
  • Advice for consumption of the silkworm. 66 poems, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2003
  • The two ways to order the Caipirinha. A poem, published by Ulrich Keicher ( limited special edition ), Warmbronn 2000
  • Beyond sausage and cheese. 44 poems, literature Luchterhand Verlag, Hamburg 1995
  • The truth about coffee drinkers. A poem, published by Ulrich Keicher ( limited special edition ), Warmbronn 1993
  • In the shadow of the font here. 22 poems, Weismann Verlag, Munich 1988

Essays

  • From the disappearance of things in the future. Certain articles from 2006 to 1998. Essays, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007
  • Marietta - the idea of ​​the record and the straw hat. Writing and writing - Let the Internet, Franz Steiner Verlag ( = Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Treatise Nr.1/2000 the class of literature), Stuttgart 2000
  • The color of the vowels. From the literature, the 78ern and the croaking frogs richer, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 1998

Editorship and Others

  • THE POEM No. 20 The Best of 20 Years - and for the next 20 years, anniversary edition, with A. Leitner, Wessling 2012, ISBN 978-3-92943-372-2
  • London, signals from the world machine, Host: Matthias Politycki, Corso Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86260-015-1
  • Marietta / A man of forty, documentation of the ZDF project " Novel in Progress" on the homepage of aspects; ZDF.Online / Luchterhand Literature Publishing (CD -ROM), München [ua ] 1999
  • Hundreds necessary poems. And a superfluous, Luchterhand literature publishing house, Hamburg, Zurich [ua ] 1992

Reference Books

  • Revaluation of all values ​​? German literature in the judgment of Nietzsche, De Gruyter, Berlin [ ua] 1989
  • The early Nietzsche and the German classical. Studies to problems of literary evaluation, Munich university publications, Straubing [ua ] 1981

Audiobooks

  • London for heroes. The Ale Trail ( with Peter Lohmeyer and Colin Soleman ), Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2011
  • Beyond novella ( with Nina Petri ), Radioropa / Technisat, down 2009
  • The ship. Experiences of a world tour with Matthias Politycki, Audio book by Wolfgang Stockmann, logbook texts and Narrator: Matthias Politycki, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2008
  • The Devil's amulet, Munich Spring Verlag ( in the series " once turned tight" ), Munich 2007
  • Women. Well. Difficult ( with Hellmuth and Steffen Opitz Jacobs), Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005
  • The silence at the other end of the trunk, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2001
  • A man of forty, audiobook Hamburg / Germany Radio, Hamburg 2000
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