Albert Ostermaier

Albert Ostermaier (born November 30, 1967 in Munich ) is a German writer .

Albert Ostermaier at the Erlangen Poetenfest 2011

Life

Ostermaier initially studied architecture and law for a short time and then modern German literature with the minor subjects Medieval Studies and Folklore at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1988 he published the first volume of poetry Denial of the compass direction . In 1990 he received the Munich Literature Scholarship. With the world premiere of the first play Between Two Fires. In 1995 he had his breakthrough as a playwright at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. He was in-house author at the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1996 to 1997, at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich from 1999 to 2000 and at the Burgtheater Vienna from 2003 to 2009. The numerous plays were staged by renowned directors including Andrea Breth , Matthias Hartmann and Martin Kušej . In 1998 he wrote the play The Making Of for Bertolt Brecht's 100th birthday . B. movie for the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. In 2008 he published the first novel Zephyr .

Ostermaier has received numerous awards, including the Ernst Toller Prize , the Kleist Prize , the Bertolt Brecht Prize and the World Literature Prize . He was the artistic director of the poetry festival Lyrik am Lech and the literature festival ABC - Augsburg Brecht Connected . In 2015 he curated the forum: autoren under the title front: text as part of the Munich Literature Festival .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Ostermaier is the goalkeeper of the German national team of authors , curator of the DFB cultural foundation and member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Ostermaier works closely with the musicians and composers Hans Platzgumer and Bert Wrede .

Awards

• 1995 Poetry Prize of the PEN Liechtenstein
• 1997 Ernst Toller Prize
• 1998 Translation Prize from the Goethe Institute for Tatar Titus
• 1998 Hubert von Herkomer Prize from the City of Landsberg am Lech
• 2000 Authors' Prize of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt for pathogens
• 2000 Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 2001 Writer-in-Residence at New York University
• 2003 Kleist Prize
• 2010 Bertolt Brecht Prize
• 2011 World Literature Prize
• 2014 4th Saarbrücken poetry lecturer for drama
• 2015 member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Plays

• Between two fires. Great topography , world premiere: Bavarian State Theater Munich 1995
• Zuckersüss & Leichenbitter or: from the coffee set in the sugar piece , world premiere: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich 1997
• Tatar Titus , world premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim 1997
• Radio Noir , world premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim 1998
• The making of. B.-Movie , world premiere: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich 1998
• Heartcore Theater , world premiere: Bavarian State Theater Munich 2000
• Death Valley Junction , world premiere: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2000
• Erreger , world premiere: Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover 2000
• Last call , world premiere: Burgtheater Vienna 2000
• Flycatcher , world premiere: Theater Basel 2000
• It's time. Demolition , world premiere: Schauspielhaus Bochum 2001
• Catacombs , world premiere: Schauspiel Frankfurt 2001
• 99 degrees , world premiere: Münchner Kammerspiele 2001
• Father tongue , first performance: Ruhrtriennale Essen 2002
• Auf Sand , world premiere: Thalia Theater Hamburg 2003
• Nights underground , world premiere: Ruhrtriennale Essen 2005
• After the cliffs , world premiere: Burgtheater Vienna 2005
• Substitute bench , world premiere: Salzburg Festival 2006
• Black minutes , world premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim 2007
• Grimaces , world premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim 2009
• Blue mirrors , world premiere: Berliner Ensemble 2009
• Sing to me death A ritual. For Claude Vivier , world premiere: Ruhrtriennale Gladbeck 2009
• The Lives of Others , stage version of the film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , world premiere: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 2009
• Uprising , world premiere: Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2011
• Halali , world premiere: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich 2011
• A pound of meat , world premiere: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2012
• Call me God , world premiere: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich 2012
• Black sun shine , world premiere: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 2012
• Game without a ball , world premiere: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 2014
• Madame Bovary , world premiere: Bavarian State Theater Munich 2014
• Carnage , world premiere: Nibelungen Festival Worms 2015
• Moi non plus or: Requiem for a lover , world premiere: Theater Oberhausen in coproduction with the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2015
• Gold. The film of the Nibelungs , world premiere: Nibelungen Festival Worms 2016
• Embers. Siegfried von Arabien , world premiere: Nibelungen Festival Worms 2017

Musical plays

• An Chung-Gun - fingertips , music by Heinz Reber , world premiere: Hebbel-Theater Berlin 2001
• Crushrooms , music by Wolfgang Mitterer , world premiere: Theater Basel 2005
• The Devil's Tragedy , music by Péter Eötvös , world premiere: Bavarian State Opera Munich 2010
• Leila and Majnun , music by Samir Odeh-Tamimi , world premiere: Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2010

Radio plays

• Tatar Titus , original broadcast: Südwestfunk 1985
• Zuckersüss & Leichenbitter or: from the coffee grounds in the sugar piece , original broadcast: Südwestfunk 1997
• Radio Noir , original broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk 1999
• Heartcore Theater , first broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk and Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich 1999
• Calcuttaphonie , original broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk 2000
• Pathogen , original broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk 2001
• Father tongue , original broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk 2003
• Motion detector , original broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk 2004
• Polar , original broadcast: Hessischer Rundfunk 2007

Publications

• Refusal of the compass direction . Poems. Edition L, Speyer 1988, ISBN 978-3-924600-58-7 .
• UMWELZTON . Poems. Edition L, Speyer 1989, ISBN 978-3-924600-82-2 .
• Shard morning . In: First Insights . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 978-3-518-11592-3 .
• Heart verse say . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-518-11950-1 .
• foreign body close up . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-518-12032-3 .
• Tatar Titus . Pieces. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-40953-4 .
• The making of. Radio Noir . Pieces. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-12130-6 .
• Heartcore . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-41059-2 .
• Death Valley Junction . Pieces and materials. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-518-13401-6 .
• Drive-in theater . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-518-41264-0 .
• Pathogen. It's time. Demolition . Pieces and materials. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-13421-4 .
• Last call. 99 degrees . Pieces and materials. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-13417-7 .
• Father tongue . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-12436-9 .
• Catacombs. On sand . Pieces and materials. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-13433-7 .
• Solar plexus . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-518-41592-4 .
• The goalkeeper is always there where it hurts . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-12469-7 .
• Polar . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-41818-5 .
• For the beginning of the night . Love poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45863-1 .
• Zephyr . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41958-8 .
• Who wants to see . Poems on photographs by Pietro Donzelli . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-19310-4 .
• Grimaces. Blue mirrors . Pieces. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12587-8 .
• Just in case Brecht , Bertolt Brecht Anthology, 2009.
• Black sun shine . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42220-5 .
• Venice - The Invisible One . Poems on photographs by Christopher Thomas. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-4679-3 .
• Live and let die . Speech to receive the literary award of the world. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-06254-8 .
• The lover . Narrative. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42327-1 .
• Its time to die . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42382-0 .
• Wing change . Soccer odes. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-458-19395-1 .
• Except me . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42381-3 .
• Heart stings . Play. Correction Verlag, Mattighofen 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503318-9-9 .
• Schuldiger, play, correction by publishing house, Mattighofen 2015, ISBN 978-3-950385-4-1-0 .
• Lenz in Lebanon . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42474-2 .
• From the role. Or: About the drama of getting bogged down. Saarbrücken poetry lecturer for drama . Edited by Johannes Birgfeld. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89581-407-5 .
• Gold . Theater play, correction publishing house, Mattighofen 2016, ISBN 978-3950385-46-5 .
• Embers. Siegfried of Arabia . Theater play, correction publisher, Mattighofen 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504476-1-3 .
• Over the lips . Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518428-63-4 .

Settings

• deep snow day for tenor or baritone and piano, composition by Moritz Eggert , 1999
• heart verses say for voice and piano, part of the cycle Neue Dichter Lieben, composition by Moritz Eggert, 1999
• Orpheus Unplugged for piano and tape, composition by Konrad Boehmer , 2000
• Ausklang for baritone and piano, composition by Moritz Eggert, 2001
• Sensor for three speakers, ensemble and live electronics, composition by Konrad Boehmer, 2007

literature

• Theo Breuer : Drive-In Cinema (2001) . In: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 . Edition YE, Sistig 2005, ISBN 3-87512-186-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.literaturfest-muenchen.de/aktuelles/
2. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/albert-ostermaier

Web links

• Page by Albert Ostermaier
• Literature by and about Albert Ostermaier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Albert Ostermaier in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Short biography and information on the work of Albert Ostermaier at Literaturport
• New German Drama: Albert Ostermaier Page from the Goethe Institute
• Albert Ostermaier German Academy for Football Culture
• Football: "With footballers it is mostly stammering" The time of December 14, 2006
• Author Albert Ostermaier: "The most liberating laugh I have ever heard" Die Zeit from August 14, 2011