Markus Orths

Markus Orths at the Hausacher Leselenz 2015

Markus Orths (born June 21, 1969 in Viersen ) is a German writer .

life and work

Orths studied Romance studies , English and philosophy at the University of Freiburg . In 1991/92 he worked as a foreign language assistant for German in Paris . After completing his studies, he worked as a trainee lawyer for English and French at the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium in Stutensee and as a teacher at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Göppingen . Two years before the success of his polarizing novel Teachers' Room , he devoted himself exclusively to writing novels and short stories. In 2005 the novel Catalina , based on historical material, was published , which also split criticism. Orths was the editor of the literary magazine concepts published by the Federal Association of Young Authors . He regularly runs workshops for literary writing, among others at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel and the Literary Center in Göttingen. His novels have been translated into a total of eighteen languages. His novel The Chambermaid was filmed by Ingo Haeb and was released in May 2015 under the title The Chambermaid Lynn . Orths took over the 36th Paderborn poetics professorship in 2017/18 and the 31st poetics professorship at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in 2018 . In addition to his short stories and novels, Orths publishes radio plays and children's books.

Orths lives in Karlsruhe .

Publications

Autograph

Single track

• Writing sand . Stories. edition sisyphos, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-928637-27-4 .
• Who goes where behind the coffin? Narratives . Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89561-093-3 .
• Corpus . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-89561-094-1 .
• Staff room . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-89561-095-X .
• Catalina . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-89561-097-6 .
• Attempts to escape . Stories. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-89561-098-4 .
• After the end . The Nettetal Library, vol. 7. Matussek, Nettetal 2006, ISBN 3-920743-85-7 .
• The maid . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-89561-099-8 .
• Pipe dreams . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-89561-470-5 .
• The magic hat . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-89561-471-2 .
• At some point it's over . Stories. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-472-9 .
• Alpha & Omega: Apocalypse for Beginners . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-473-6 .
• Max. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25649-1 .
• But otherwise I'm fine. Collected humoresques. ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86913-853-4 .
• Picnic in the dark. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26570-7 .

Children's books:

• The zebra under the bed. Moritz Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-89565-310-0 .
• The richest boy in the world. Moritz Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-89565-360-5 .
• The great book by Billy Backe. Ravensburger Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-473-40828-3 .
• Air pirates. Ueberreuter 2020, ISBN 978-3-7641-5155-3 .

Translations

• De lerarenkamer . Vertaald by Gerrit Bussink and Elly Schippers. Uitg. Podium. Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 90-5759-375-0 .
• Catalina . Toby. New Milford (Conn., USA) 2006, ISBN 1-59264-165-2 .
• Catalina . Signature. Netherlands 2006, ISBN 90-5672-194-1 .
• Sala professori . Voland. Italy 2007, ISBN 978-88-88700-99-1 .
• The staffroom . Dedalus. England 2007, ISBN 978-1-903517-55-0 .
• Catalina . Difel. Portugal 2007, ISBN 978-972-29-0852-8 .
• Catalina . Mintis. Lithuania 2007, ISBN 978-5-417-00908-2 .
• La Mujer Travestida . Salamandra. Spain 2009, ISBN 978-84-9838-202-0 .
• Catalina . Toby Publishing. Israel 2009, ISBN 978-965-526-006-9 .
• The maid . Sallim Books. Korea 2009, ISBN 978-89-522-1259-7 .
• Pokojská . Kniha Zlin. Czech Republic 2009, ISBN 978-80-87162-50-7 .
• Femme de chambre . Liana Levi. France 2009, ISBN 978-2-86746-508-6 .
• Het Kamermeisje . Podium. Netherlands 2009, ISBN 978-90-5759-099-3 .
• La figlia del sole e della pioggia . Edition Piemme. Italy 2009, ISBN 978-88-384-0280-7 .
• Kambariné . Gimtadis Zodis. Lithuania 2009, ISBN 978-9955-16-276-6 .
• Mokytoju Kambarys . Gimtadis Zodis. Lithuania 2009, ISBN 978-9955-16-279-7 .
• Second roman . Liana Levi. France 2010, ISBN 978-2-86746-541-3 .
• La camarera . Seix Baral. Spain 2010, ISBN 978-84-322-2861-2 .
• La cameriera . Voland. Italy 2010, ISBN 978-88-6243-055-5 .
• The maid . Lettera. Bulgaria 2010, ISBN 978-954-516-808-6 .
• A camareira . L&PM Editores. Brazil 2010, ISBN 978-85-254-2097-8 .
• La sala de profesores . Seix Barral. Spain 2011, ISBN 978-84-322-0937-6 .
• Staff room . People's Literature. China 2012, ISBN 978-7-02-008733-4 .
• Catalina . Laguna. Serbia 2011, ISBN 978-86-521-0843-5 .

Audio books

• Staff room . Novel. Speaker: Torben Kessler . BUCHFUNK 2008, ISBN 978-3-86847-102-1 .
• The maid. Novel. Speaker: Torben Kessler. BUCHFUNK, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86847-105-2 .
• Pipe dreams. Novel. Speaker: Torben Kessler. AUDIOBUCH, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89964-340-4 .
• Air pirates

Film adaptations

• 2015: The maid Lynn (Director: Ingo Haeb )

Awards

• 2000: Moerser Literature Prize
• open mike 2000 from the Berlin Literature Workshop
• 2001: Town Clerk of Schwaz (2001)
• 2002: Sponsorship award for the literature award of the city of Marburg
• 2002: Irseer Pegasus
• 2003: Limburg Prize of the City of Bad Dürkheim
• 2003: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 2006: Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
• 2006: Sir Walter Scott Prize , Golden Laurel of the Authors' Circle Historical Novel Quo Vadis
• 2008: Telekom Austria Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2009: Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis der Stadt Krefeld
• 2011: Fantastic Prize of the City of Wetzlar for The Tarnkappe
• 2012: Prix Théâtre 13 for Femme de Chambre
• 2012: Play competition of the Baden-Baden theater for the removal of the amygdala
• 2015: German Science Fiction Prize
• 2019: Annual grant from the German Literature Fund eV

literature

• Annika Scheidemann, Günter Helmes (ed.): On the meaningless, meaningful and meaningful in (teacher) existence. About the search movements of Martin Kranich in "Teachers' Room" by Markus Orths and Immanuel Mauss in "Das Lied vom Do und Lassen" by Jan Böttcher . In: Günter Helmes, Günter Rinke (eds.): Clever, clever, failed. The contemporary image of schools and teachers in literature and media . Igel-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86815-713-0 , pp. 13-26.

Web links

Commons : Markus Orths  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Markus Orths in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Short biography and information on the work of Markus Orths at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Markus Orths at perlentaucher.de
• Markus Orths' blog

Portrait, interview

• Markus Orths in portrait , cover magazine (April 25, 2005)
• I'm lying at the desk under the people's bed ( Memento from February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Markus Orths in the online cultural magazine Schauinsblau.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uni-bamberg.de
2. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur from May 11, 2011: "Invisible Solitude", review by Oliver Seppelfricke
3. ↑ Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis for Markus Orths. In: Börsenblatt. September 24, 2009.