Uwe Tellkamp

Uwe Tellkamp ( born October 28, 1968 in Dresden ) is a German physician and writer.

  • 5.1 novels
  • 5.2 Other literary works
  • 5.3 non-fiction texts
  • 5.4 interviews 5.4.1 In Print Media
  • 5.4.2 As an audio document
  • 5.4.3 The audiovisual documents

Life

Uwe Tellkamp grew up as the son of a physician in Dresden's villa district Weisser Hirsch in the Oscar Pletsch -Straße 10. After leaving school he undertook to secure its planned medical school, for three years' service as a sergeant on time in the NVA. His employment there, later referred to as " tank commander ". Even before the October 1989 Tellkamp was for "political diversionary activity " conspicuous, because he led texts of Western authors and Wolf Biermann with him. Nevertheless Tellkamp remained until October 1989 NVA sergeant.

Because his unit was supposedly against the opposition, under which Tellkamp suspected his brother move out, he had refused the command. The procedure describes Tellkamp in an interview as follows:

Tellkamp was detained for two weeks and has been on leave thereafter. This was followed in 1989 as an assistant activities on a brown coal digger conveyor and auxiliary spin in a light machine shop and in 1990 the work as an auxiliary nurse in an ICU in Dresden.

He studied medicine, he completed after the end of the GDR in Leipzig, Dresden and New York. After his academic degree, he worked as a doctor at a trauma surgery clinic in Munich, but gave the profession in 2004 in favor of his writing career on.

With Elmar Krekeler and printed out in the world on 13 August 2004 According to an interview Uwe Tellkamp discovered his vocation as a writer on October 16, 1985 at 15:30 clock: On this day he had perceived the beauty of red roses in his garden at home and felt the desire to express this in verse. After an hour he had formulated the text in prose.

Uwe Tellkamp first satirical text was already 1987, published in GDR times, the Eulenspiegel. His first public appearance as a writer he had in 1992 in Dresden.

Uwe Tellkamp is married; he is the father of a son and a daughter. Tellkamp lived for a time in Munich, Karlsruhe and Freiburg im Breisgau. His principal residence was taken again in 2009 on the White Stag in Dresden Tellkamp.

Works

Published works

Uwe Tellkamp published numerous articles in literary magazines (including accents, comma, you, EDIT, designs, lots of leaves, ndl, copybook and language in the technical age ) and anthologies. Occasionally, he also wrote essays for newspapers. In 2000 his first novel, The Pike, the dreams and the Portuguese café, playing in Dresden Hechtviertel in the period after the turn appeared.

Known to a wider public was Tellkamp by the presentation of an excerpt from his novel The sleeping in the watches in June 2004 in Klagenfurt, by which he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, as well as the consequences of this price earnings: The fact that in 2008 and 2009 all high school seniors had to deal in Lower Saxony with this excerpt from specialist German, Tellkamp moved up to the rank of an author of compulsory school curriculum. 2005, the novel was published in The kingfisher.

In the fall of 2008, the novel was published in The Tower. Publisher Ulla Unseld - Berkéwicz by Suhrkamp Verlag personally recommended the "big [n ] turning novel of the younger generation " with the words, Uwe Tellkamp work " in the tower the period from November 1982 to November 9, 1989 ". Elmar Krekeler treated 13 September 2008 the novel as " Book of the Week ". For The tower Tellkamp was awarded the German Book Prize 2008. On November 1, 2009 Uwe Tellkamp was awarded The tower, endowed with 15,000 euros Literature Prize of the Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung for the novel. A dramatized version of the novel was premiered on September 23, 2010 in Dresden. On 3 and 4 October 2012, the ARD showed off her two-part adaptation of the novel, reaching around 7.5 million viewers.

In September 2009, published Uwe Tellkamp a " poem in forty chapters " entitled Travel to the blue city.

Projects

The narrative Sleep in the watch bears the subtitle " excerpt from the novel The sleeping in the Watches ". At the end of an interview Uwe Tellkamp 2005, with Daniela Weiland, he stated that he had to work on the novel The sleep in the Watches, were written by the one-time 100 pages returned, but he him on after work wanted to end tower. In an interview with Volker Hage Tellkamp said that the novel was The Tower of the first part of a comprehensive novel project. In essence, the subsequent novel should deal with the aftermath of the turn, with the eventful period between November 1989 and October 1990. The working title of this novel should be a plan of September according to the 2012 originally read " Lava". In December 2012, Uwe Tellkamp stated that lava should be just the name of the first section of the novel, which again, as originally planned, the name Sleep should wear in the watches.

He " Probably it develops into a life project." Planned it in three volumes: Tomas gardener writes about Uwe Tellkamp Nautilus project. In Volume 1, which bears the title The ash ship, it should go mainly to politics and history, based on the travel hell in Dante's Divine Comedy; Volume 2 - entitled Falter - in contrast to the paradise as motivic center; Volume 3 will be under the title Vineta a journey through Dresden, but also other cities and city-states, which ranges up to Utopia. In the interview with Volker Hage Tellkamp announced plans to publish a book of poetry soon. In public discussions following lectures in the fall of 2008 Tellkamp reported about wanting to publish next a book on authors and literature, and a collection of portraits.

Tellkamp operation

Tellkamp working style is characterized in that it recites excerpts of author readings at irregular intervals from unpublished works comprehensive and partially published as excerpts. This is particularly true on his long poem in the tradition of Homer, entitled Nautilus, but also on the novels The sleeping in the Watches and The Tower. Attentive listeners or readers may note here that Tellkamp often changed little things ( by while working on the novel, he renames example, the Sleep known from the novel excerpt in the Watches " Niklas Buchmeister " The Tower " Niklas Tietze ").

Uwe Tellkamp himself describes in the journal Bella triste his literary work with the words: "The modern poet, as I understand it, is like the cathedral - builder; he is so, as those who set out to sail around Cape Horn, or to find a sea route to India, inevitably pathetic -. thing he can accept, if he succeeds, to make the basic human feelings again "

In an interview with the " Upper Palatinate network " Tellkamp characterizes his writing as "an attempt to win back home " that had been lost through the passage of time. He was raised in the tradition of Marcel Proust ( In Search of Lost Time ).

Reception

Uwe Tellkamp first published novel, The Pike, the dreams and the Portuguese café (2000) met with little interest from the public. The novel was launched in June 2009 against the declared will of the author. A paperback edition was published in November 2009.

For an excerpt from the unfinished novel The sleeping in the watches Tellkamp was awarded the 2004 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. The jury was impressed by this excerpt. The numerous feature articles of 28 June 2004 on the award show a mixed picture, as is the later authored reviews. Was praised especially the virtuoso command of language Tellkamp, criticized, however, was that the extract difficult to understand and that the appearance Tellkamp in Klagenfurt was tailored to the mentality of the jury.

Tellkamp 2005 published novel The Kingfisher polarized the feature pages. In a "New Germany " feuilleton, called contribution, for example, raises Volker Weidermann before in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 10, 2005 Tellkamp, he shows not enough distance to the protagonists, who advocate a conservative revolution and reject democracy in his novel. Ijoma Mangold of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, however, holds the Kingfisher for a successful " political time novel", which raise the topic of terrorism. When asked whether he was a " right writer " answers Uwe Tellkamp in a 2005 interview with Daniela Weiland with "No". "With few exceptions, I find, has denied the criticism before the book ," says Tellkamp in this context. The work had been read from the literary criticism as a political pamphlet rather than a novel.

Elmar Krekeler tells Tellkamp political attitude: " He is immunized against nostalgia and free of unnecessary hype about the reunified Germany ". Krekeler certifies the author a penchant for " hermetic ", ie to make statements that can not be deciphered completely. This slope explains Krekeler by a double exclusion Tellkamp of the world around him: first, the forced separation of the GDR citizen by walls and barbed wire from the West and, secondly, the voluntary segregation of the members of the educated middle class, which at one in the west often than in East Germany " museum " perceived manner that was retained by the Company of the GDR. This stand Tellkamp his colleagues in the former Eastern Bloc spiritually closer than its German counterparts in the former West Germany, in Austria and Switzerland.

Detailed Uwe Tellkamp expresses himself about his opinion on the recent German history in an interview that was published by the " Association of German surgeons ' on 1 October 2009.

Awards and Honors

  • 2002 2nd Prize to the Merano Poetry Prize
  • 2002 Saxon scholarship for Literature
  • 2003 Award to Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
  • 2004 Dresden Poetry Prize
  • 2004 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
  • 2008 Uwe Johnson Prize
  • 2008 German Book Prize
  • 2009 Literature Prize of the Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung
  • 2009 German National Prize

List of works

Novels

  • The pike, the dreams and the Portuguese café. Novel. Publisher Faber & Faber, Leipzig, 2000, ISBN 978-3-86730-101-5 Uwe Tellkamp debut novel: When the tower was a tower, review by Volker Weidermann in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 June, 2009

Other literary works

  • Satirical texts in Eulenspiegel
  • Tale of the silhouettes. Woman Zwirnevaden, time and February 13, 1945 In: . The World 2 February 2005
  • Nautilus Project: Excerpts from the section The butterflies have already been published, namely floating carpet score ( in: Loose leaves, Issue 27, 2004, pp. 765 ff ), butterflies ( in: Loose sheets, Issue 34, 2005, p 1010 -1013 ) and lumen. Orphic ( in Orpheus assembled the spirits anthology, Dresden, 2005, pp. 50 ff )
  • The sleeping in the watches (excerpt from the proposed novel ) 2004
  • Soccer poem Bollywood Kohinoor, television host, sports channel ( in: The time, issue 45 /2005 of November 2, 2005 )
  • Black Yellow. Contribution to the 800th anniversary of the city of Dresden, sent by MDR Figaro on 31 March 2006
  • During thunderstorms, light and dream. Notes on poetry today. Edited extract from the Munich speech to poetry, in: Bella triste # 17, Hildesheim, 2007.
  • Autobiographical narrative alternators. In: Renatus Deckert (ed. ): The night of the Berlin Wall fell. Writers tell of 9 November 1989. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, pp. 61-72.
  • Travel to the blue city. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2009 ( Island Library 1323), ISBN 3458193235

Factual texts

  • Adventure in digestion Danien; in: märkische General from May 14, 2005
  • The German question the literature; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 16 August 2007
  • The art of leisure; " Friday column" of MDR Figaro on 20 July 2007
  • The sand economy. Notes on Scripture and time. Suhrkamp. January 2009. ISBN 3-518-06999-3
  • A tower called Kohl. Writer Uwe Tellkamp the 80th birthday of the former chancellor. Image. April 3, 2010

Interviews

  • Michael Brown, interview with Uwe Tellkamp. In: Sinn und Form, Issue 4/ 2009, pp. 505-512.
  • Dagmar Borrmann: Atlantis. Stories Interview with Uwe Tellkamp for the performance "The Tower " at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In:

In print media

  • So you want to write a spiral once. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, July 7, 2004 (Interviewer: Michael Brown ).
  • The boys must fighten again. In: The world of 13 August 2004 ( Interviewer: Elmar Krekeler ).
  • My home is a ship made ​​of paper. In: Oberpfalz network. Media House The new day from 1 April 2006 ( Interviewer: Stefan Voit ).
  • " Maybe I'm a poisonous Lurch ". The writer Uwe Tellkamp on the East - middle classes, the medical profession and his problem with the irony. In: The Examiner October 13, 2008 (Interviewer: Gerrit Bartels ).
  • A large panoramic. In: Book Culture. Edition April / May 2009.
  • Among all utopias was a clock. Interview. In: Bella triste No. 20, Hildesheim, 2008.

As an audio document

  • Uwe Tellkamp talking about " The Tower ".

As audiovisual documents

  • Interview with Uwe Tellkamp. Mission of the Bavarian Radio (Interview with Daniela Weiland ) of 30 April 2005 ( 29 minutes ).
  • The great uncertainty. Video interview (3 minutes) from Prosonova Festival 2008
  • Book winners Tellkamp in an interview: It's not just my price. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 14 October 2008 ( 3:38 minutes)
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