Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny [ ste ː n nadɔlni ] ( born July 29, 1942 in Zehdenick, County Templin, Brandenburg Province ) is a German writer. He is the son of writer Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny pair. His greatest achievement is the bestseller The Discovery of Slowness.
Life
Youth and Education
Nadolny grew up in on Chieming am Chiemsee, where his grandfather, the painter Alexander Peltzer, in 1932, had a house built, located at the Isabella Nadolny - way today. The father Burkhard Nadolny was a writer in the field of group 47, whose works, however, were never well received by the audience. Successful later became the mother of Isabella Nadolny with their family novels. The son of a writer Sten Nadolny couple wanted to not take up the profession of the parents. Even in his youth he showed interest but for the British Arctic explorer John Franklin, who was to become the protagonist of his most successful novel later.
After finishing high school in Traunstein Nadolny studied Medieval and Modern History and Political Science in Munich, Tübingen, Göttingen and Berlin. In 1976 he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with Thomas Nipperdey for Disarmament Diplomacy 1932/1933. His grandfather Rudolf Nadolny had 1932/1933 led the German delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations. While studying Nadolny came in contact with the student movement of the 1960s, whose ideas he showed himself taken first in order to reject the more resolutely by their radicalization and about in the novel Selim or The gift of speech in retrospect as " APO 's disease " designate.
Following his studies Nadolny was a teacher of history in Berlin -Spandau. However, the teaching profession, he was soon back on to enter after stopovers as a taxi driver and law enforcement workers in prison in 1977 in the movie business. As a manager Nadolny was among other things to the Berlin Film scenes of James Bond 007 - Octopussy involved. Nadolny wanted to become a film director, but received a scholarship for a screenplay synopsis. The planned movie network card was never realized, instead processed Nadolny the material for his first novel.
Literary creation
As Nadolny in 1980 took 38 years at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition, this was his first major appearance on the literary stage. He read Copenhagen in 1801, the fifth chapter of three years later bestselling book The Discovery of Slowness. The book, inspired by the life of Arctic explorer John Franklin, the career of a man who is extremely slower than the rest of the world and, despite or perhaps because of its slowness goes his way and a famous captain and explorer is. Nadolny received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the prize money of 14,000 Mark shared among all participants, however, to order, as he explained, " to plants for debittering competition."
Even before the discovery of slowness was published in 1981 Nadolny's debut, the novel network card. Protagonist of the book is the 30 -year-old trainee teacher Ole Reuter, who embarks on a month-long journey by train. 18 years later was the author of the now aged main character in him or me rise again. In between were the novels Selim or The gift of speech (1990 ), a period novel about the Federal Republic of Germany with the young German Alexander and the Turkish guest workers Selim as protagonists, and A God of impudence (1994 ), in which the gods Hermes in the presence is set.
1990 Nadolny held at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, the Munich lectures on poetics. Ten years later came the lectures on poetics at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. With the Ullsteinhaus novel from 2003 Nadolny wrote the history of the family and the Ullsteinhaus Ullsteinhaus publisher. In cleaning and mending hour. Two cold warriors remember (2009 ) report Nadolny and Jens Sparschuh of their military service in East and West Germany.
2012 published Nadolny 's novel Weitlings summer, in which he in his youth processed numerous details of his own biography in the context of time travel of a retired judge. Like its main character Weitling also Nadolny lives in Berlin and am Chiemsee. He is a member of the PEN center of Germany.