Airen (Author)

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Airen (2016)

Airen (* 1981 in Munich ) is a German blogger , journalist and writer .

Life

Airen grew up in Upper Bavaria , graduated from high school in 2001 and moved to Frankfurt (Oder) to study economics , which he completed in 2006 as a Bachelor of International Business Administration. He then completed an internship at a Berlin management consultancy and then worked for two years in their branch in Mexico City . Today he lives in Mexico again with his Mexican wife Nancy and their child.

Literary career

After reading blogs by other authors since 2003 , he started his own blog in 2004 under the pseudonym Airen . Initially, the location (most recently: airen.wordpress.com) and topics changed. Over time, his experiences in Berlin's techno club culture became the main topic. The scene club Berghain , which opened in 2004, played an important role in this. In 2008 he brought his blog posts into book form just before moving to Mexico. In August 2009, the revised text was published under the title Strobo by the small Berlin publisher SuKuLTuR in a first edition of 1000 copies. The book initially went largely unnoticed by the literary scene and the wider public. At least the Munich blogger Deef Pirmasens took notice of it and set a chapter from Strobo ( LabOraTory: In der Hölle ) to music for his blog Die Emotskonserve as a podcast and thus won the international Best of Blog award from Deutsche Welle . He also organized a multimedia reading in Munich: STROBO - Airens Technoprosa from Berghain . In autumn 2010, Strobo was published as an audio book, read by Deef Pirmasens. Airen's second volume, I Am Airen Man , based on notes from his time in Mexico, was published by Blumenbar Verlag at the end of March 2010 . Critics consider the book to be the literarily stronger one. From February 2011 to May 2012 Airen ran the blog Attacke Azteka from Mexico for the Musikexpress . Airen now writes regularly for the features section and the travel section of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Welt am Sonntag .

Hegemann plagiarism affair

Deef Pirmasens proved on February 5, 2010 that the 17-year-old author Helene Hegemann , who had been praised by prominent columnists up until then, had copied passages from Strobo in her debut novel Axolotl Roadkill without citing the source. Hegemann himself immediately admitted this and apologized, but defended her literary approach. Hegemanns Verlag Ullstein tried hastily for a subsequent permission to reprint. Since Airen and his publisher fundamentally valued Hegemann's novel and did not want to stand in the way of their young career, after brief negotiations without legal action they agreed on a monetary payment and reference to the source in future editions (in the then current 2nd edition of Axolotl Roadkill Airen was short before the allegations of plagiarism became known, they were at least included in the acknowledgments). In addition, Ullstein Verlag announced that it would publish Strobo itself as a paperback. The volume was published in October 2010.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Airen has kept his real name secret so far. In an article in the Welt am Sonntag it is insinuated that he "has a two-syllable first name that is typical for children of the 1980s" (Andreas Rosenfelder: "Only the unlived life is so blatant" , in: WamS, March 28, 2010 ).
  2. ↑ "Now comes the Airen Man"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Frankfurter Neue Presse online, March 27, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  3. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: “Yes to carelessness” , tagesspiegel.de, March 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Tobias Rüther in an interview with Airen: "I experienced that, not Helene Hegemann" In: FAZ online, February 12, 2010
  5. ↑ Franziska Felber in conversation with Marc Degens: "Strobo: The blog, the book, Airen's first novel" , satt.org, March 31, 2010
  6. ↑ cultureagency.wordpress.com correspondence of the blogger Steffen Dittmar with the publisher
  7. ↑ Video on gefuehlskonserve.de ( Memento from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ "Birth of a Writer", Der Spiegel No. 13/2010, March 29, 2010
  9. ↑ Andrea Hünniger : "Thank you, Helene Hegemann" , Die Zeit , No. 16/2010, April 15, 2010
  10. ↑ "Out of Rosenheim", Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 87/2010, April 16, 2010
  11. ↑ Airen looks at the Bachmann Prize: “Klagenfurt international” , March 31, 2010
  12. ↑ Mainau in Mexican, so beautiful and so dangerous , June 24, 2015
  13. ↑ See chronicle of events at perlentaucher.de, March 18, 2010
  14. ↑ Deef Pirmasens: "Axolotl Roadkill: Everything just stolen?" ( Memento from April 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), gefühlskonserve.de, February 5, 2010
  15. ^ "'Axolotl Roadkill': Helene Hegemann and Ullstein publisher Dr. Siv Bublitz respond to allegations of plagiarism ” , buchmarkt.de, February 7, 2010
  16. ^ “Helene Hegemann and Airen - Interview with 'Strobo' publisher Frank Maleu” , spreeblick.de, February 8, 2010
  17. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: "Youth steals: Ullstein publishes 'Strobo' as a paperback" , tagesspiegel.de, February 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Airen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich