Paul Brodowsky

Paul Brodowsky (* 1980 in Kiel ) is a German author , playwright and literary scholar .

Life

Brodowsky is the youngest of seven children from Horst Brodowsky, erem. Professor of Technical Chemistry at the University of Kiel. Brodowsky studied creative writing and cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim from 1999 to 2005 . There he founded the literary magazine BELLA triste together with Wiebke Späth , of which he was co-editor until 2004. He was also a member of the artistic direction of the PROSANOVA 2005 literature festival . From 2001 to 2007 Brodowsky had lectureships at the University of Hildesheim in the field of “creative writing”; Since 2007 he has been a research assistant for research and teaching of contemporary literature and its communication, and is also working on a doctorate on "Conceptual and planning processes in novels". In June 2006, Brodowsky took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt . The author lives in Berlin .

Theater work

In the spring of 2006 his first play “Stadt, Land, Fisch” was shown at the Munich Kammerspiele in a workshop production directed by Laurent Chetouane . In March 2008 his second play "Dingos" premiered at the Munich Volkstheater (director: Philipp Jescheck ). In May 2008 Brodowsky's adaptation of William Shakespeare's " Troilus and Cressida " was shown at the Wiener Festwochen , which was then included in the program of the Münchner Kammerspiele. The director was Luk Perceval , Julia Jentsch and Oliver Mallison played the title roles . Brodowsky's third play "Regen in Neukölln" was invited to the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2008 and shown at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. He has been an in-house author at the Freiburg Theater since the beginning of the 2012/13 season.

Trivia

In 2008, the author Boris Fust had a character read a book by Brodowsky in his novel about the internship generation , Twelve Hours Are Not a Day , who then "thinks for one and a half pages in his language [...]".

Publications

prose

Milk wood cats. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12267-3
The blind photographer. Stories Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-518-41874-2

Editions

Microfilm # 09. Literary exploration of documents from the Leo Baeck Institute , Edition Paechterhaus Hildesheim 2009 ISBN 978-3-941392-11-3
World literature II. From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Edited by Hanns-Josef Ortheil , Paul Brodowsky and Thomas Klupp . Hildesheim 2009
World literature I. From Homer to Dante. Edited by Hanns-Josef Ortheil , Paul Brodowsky and Thomas Klupp . Hildesheim 2008
BELLA sad . Journal for Young Literature. No. 0-9 (2001-2004)

Plays

City, country, fish
Dingos (Munich Volkstheater 2008, Berlin Schaubühne 2010)
Troilus and Cressida (based on W. Shakespeare , Wiener Festwochen 2008)
Lie in my face (Theater Freiburg 2010, director: Christoph Frick )
Platform 11 (Münchner Kammerspiele 2010, together with Christine Umpfenbach, director: Christine Umpfenbach)
Rain in Neukölln (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin 2011, director: Friederike Heller )
Searching for traces Grafeneck (Theater Freiburg 2012, together with Stephan Nolte and Ruth Feindel, director: Stephan Nolte)

Radio plays

Stadt, Land, Fisch (based on the play of the same name; WDR 2007)
Terminus desert (based on the play "Dingos"; WDR 2008)

Awards

Laureate Meeting of Young Authors 1999
Work grant from the State of Lower Saxony 2003
Annual grant of the German Literature Fund 2005
Writer in Residence at the German House of New York University 2005
Prize for the Nicolas Born Prize 2006
Sponsorship award for the Inselschreiber scholarship of the Sylt-Quelle 2007
Johannes Poethen Scholarship from the Stuttgart Writer's House in 2007
Audience award at the Hamburger Autorentheatertage 2008 for rain in Neukölln
Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation 2008 (together with Anne Krüger )
Three-month residency grant from Villa Aurora 2008
Three-month residency grant from the State of Lower Saxony in the Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2009

Web links

Portraits

swell

↑ http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/de/37504.htm cf. on this also Brodowsky's lecture "On the gradual production of novels while writing: Marcel Beyer's Avant Texts on Flying Dogs" ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as "Creating ideas. Technique and poetics of the avant texts in Marcel Beyer" @1@ 2
↑ "I can't stand generation books". At: Zeit.de.
↑ See: Paul Brodowsky reads from "The Blind Photographer" and in a conversation about "The Blind Photographer"

personal data
SURNAME	Brodowsky, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author
DATE OF BIRTH	1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel

[1] ttp://www.uni-hildesheim.de/de/37504.htm cf. on this also Brodowsky's lecture "On the gradual production of novels while writing: Marcel Beyer's Avant Texts on Flying Dogs" ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as "Creating ideas. Technique and poetics of the avant texts in Marcel Beyer" @1@ 2

[2] "I can't stand generation books". At: Zeit.de.

[3] See: Paul Brodowsky reads from "The Blind Photographer" and in a conversation about "The Blind Photographer"