Albrecht Selge

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Albrecht Selge (* 1975 in Heidelberg ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Albrecht Selge in Bonndorf Castle (2013)

Growing up in West Berlin , Selge studied German and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna . Until 2011 he was editor-in-chief of a Berlin audio guide company that produces acoustic walks through major European cities. In addition, he wrote specialist tours on urban redevelopment for the 2010 International Building Exhibition .

His debut novel Wach (2011) is about the manager of a shopping mall who, suffering from insomnia, wanders through an unnamed city reminiscent of Berlin. On the one hand, the criticism praised it: “While Döblin picked up on the acceleration of a metropolis that was growing like a Moloch, Selge reduced the speed. He has no big city symphony in mind; rather, he discovers the slowness that almost fades into silence, and so Wach turns out to be a subtly composed Adagio for small cast. ”On the other hand, it was criticized that“ his novel would do with a little more speed and a few storylines that do not only consist of forays into the city. ” Gustav Seibt wrote of a "beautiful, quiet, often comical book" that would "serve as a memory of the Berlin of our years".

Wach was nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2011 and received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize from the Harbor Front Literature Festival Hamburg. The jury's reasoning stated: “Selge knows exactly what he's doing; his novel may be permeated with references to cultural history, but he presents them in such a playful way that the reader feels amused and well entertained. "

Selge's second novel Die drunkenness ride (2016) describes a quartet of men who drive a day in a rusty Fiat Panda through South Tyrol and, getting more and more drunk, hold educated conversations about literature and music. The writing of the book is gradually getting smaller and "is lost in indecipherable gray-black dots". The talks include, for example, Immanuel Kant , Thomas Bernhard , contemporary pianists , Johann Sebastian Bach and Hans-Georg Gadamer . Some content is historically correct, while others are made up or make no sense. Orality is represented textually here in connection with an increasing degree of intoxication .

Paul Jandl compares The Drunken Trip with the novel Tschick , but sees it as addressed to classical music scholars. While there are schnapps within the protagonists, "the whole force of the West is above them: music, philosophy, literature."

In 2019, Selge's third novel, Flying , was published, which is about an older woman who spends her life on trains. The book received mostly positive reviews. Ulrich Rüdenauer wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Albrecht Selge stays very close to his figure. Everything is told out of it, erratically and dreamily, in a stubborn language that rocks a little from being alone, brooding and jerking."

In Selge's novel Beethovn , published in 2020, the eponymous composer Ludwig van Beethoven does not appear at all or only remotely, while various protagonists (from an executed ancestor to a prostitute, a housekeeper, the Immortal Beloved to Beethoven's nephew Karl ) have thoughts about their own Life and your relationship with the great artist and sometimes difficult people. Peter Korfmacher called Beethovn in the Leipziger Volkszeitung "probably the most original book for the Beethoven year ", Bernhard Hartmann spoke in the Bonner General-Anzeiger of a "brilliantly unconventional homage". Maria Frisé found in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Beethoven connoisseurs "probably doesn't offer anything in his novel that Selge doesn't already know. For others, however, some original ways open up to track down people like the genius Beethoven" while the FAZ music critic Jan Brachmann judged more enthusiastically: "A very touching Beethov (e) n homage, incredibly original, disrespectful, profound, very well researched, but also told very freely and playfully."

Selge also works as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the Jüdische Allgemeine, the VAN Magazin and the magazines of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Elbphilharmonie and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. He runs the blog Hundert11 - Konzertgänger in Berlin about classical music.

Awards

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 9, 2011
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 2, 2011
  4. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, September 23, 2011
  5. ^ Harbor Front Literature Festival ( Memento from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: "The drunken journey" by Albrecht Selge: Kalauer until the letters collapse. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved September 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ David Hugendick: Vacation in Haha major. Albrecht Selge's highly musical chamber piece: “The drunken journey”. In: The time . November 24, 2016, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Boyken: "Coo-off-centering - Ruuuuuuu-u-huig be". Printed orality in contemporary German-language novels . (The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Blaubär, The Fox, The Drunken Journey). In: David-Christopher Assmann, Nicola Menzel (Ed.): Textgerede. Oral and written interferences in contemporary literature (=  scenes / interfaces . Volume 6 ). Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-8467-6387-2 , section: Albrecht Selge: Die drunkenness ride (2016) , p. 72–76 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  9. ↑ Paul Jandl: How much alcohol can the West tolerate? In: The world . January 21, 2017, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Albrecht Selge: Flying. Novel. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ulrich Rüdenauer: Endless carriages . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 14, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Peter Korfmacher, Leipziger Volkszeitung, March 17, 2020
  13. ↑ Bernhard Hartmann , General - Anzeiger , February 20, 2020
  14. ↑ Maria Frisé: Selge novel “Beethovn”: Let it boom as loud as possible . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 23, 2020]).
  15. ↑ Andrea Diener, Fridtjof Küchemann: Book Podcast, Part 10: In front of the classic Big Brother camera . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 23, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Via the blog / imprint & privacy policy. In: Hundred 11 - concert goers in Berlin. May 21, 2015, accessed on May 14, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Selge, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg