Alexander Graeff

Alexander Graeff reads from Kebehsenuf at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

Alexander Graeff (born September 24, 1976 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German writer and philosopher . He lives and works as a lecturer, freelance author and editor in Berlin and Greifswald.

Vita

Alexander Graeff studied economics, engineering, education and philosophy in Karlsruhe and Berlin. Between 2008 and 2012 doctorate with Heinz-Elmar Tenorth and Michael Parmentier as Dr. phil. about Wassily Kandinsky as a teacher. Graeff teaches creative writing and has held guest lectureships at various universities for aesthetics, ethics and education, including the Humboldt University of Berlin , the Berlin University of the Arts , the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences , the Viadrina European University and the Chinese University of the Arts in Hangzhou . The results of his creative processes are both philosophical and literary texts. His philosophical work is based on a constructivist worldview; topics are mostly deviant and marginalized phenomena from the history, religion and social sciences. His scientific studies regularly took him to the People's Republic of China and Prague. Since 2005 he has given lectures and readings throughout Germany.

Graeff's narrative prose is fragmentary and surreal , he also publishes poetological essays . His texts often combine everyday life and metaphysics . Graeff is not afraid of mixed literature, text-image transformations and transdisciplinary work. So far, numerous collaborations with visual artists, illustrators and musicians have emerged.

Alexander Graeff was the initiator and host of the reading series Literatur in Weißensee between 2013 and 2019 and has been the program manager for literature at the Berlin bread factory since 2016 . Together with the designer Anke Enders, Alexander Graeff has been publishing outsider literature in Edition Paradogs since 2015.

Works

Independent publications (selection)

• The reduction of peach sauces in the delicious event horizon. Poems. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-945832-30-1 .
• Sea lions over Kos . Stories. SuKuLTuR Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95566-074-1 .
• Wassily Kandinsky . Painter, graphic artist and teacher in Weimar. Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-7374-0227-9 . (With three illustrated city tours)
• Runes . Collection of Prosaminiatures. [SIC] –Literaturverlag, Aachen, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9813587-3-5 .
• Kebehsenuf . Narrative collection. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940249-89-0 .
• Kandinsky as a teacher . Shaker, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8440-1999-5 (also dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2013).
• Minkowski lemons . Narrative collection. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940249-45-6 .
• Thoughts from the land of gravity . Narrative collection. 2nd, expanded edition. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940249-09-8 .

Publications in scientific journals and anthologies (selection)

• Design, where does ethics go? Or: Solving a general problem specifically. In: BDK-Mitteilungen - magazine of the professional association for art education. 4 (2018).
• Marvel, discover, rejoice in the face of limited freedom? Some (critical) remarks on the anniversary of the Reformation. In: Künstlerbund Mecklenburg and Vorpommern (ed.): Formare. Catalog for the 27th art show of the Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania Artists' Association. 2017.
• The word in space and time . In: Kandinsky, Wassily: Forgotten Oval. Poems from the estate. Berlin: Verlagshaus Berlin, 2016.
• Empathy - About Aesthetic Methods in Education. In: BDK-Mitteilungen - magazine of the professional association for art education. 4 (2016).
• Problems of intercultural art education. A philosophical and comparative sketch of Chinese and European thought using the example of creativity. In: BDK-Mitteilungen - magazine of the professional association for art education. 1 (2015).
• Abstraction as a category of educational transformation. Wassily Kandinsky as an educational avant-garde. In: Yearbook for Historical Educational Research. 19 (2013).
• Put an end to child power - Wassily Kandinsky's criticism of the academy in the mirror of his time. In: Ideas and Realities of Universities. Peter Lang, Berlin, 2013.
• The concept of education - a transdisciplinary revenant. In: Metamorphoses of Education. Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2011.
• So on to my fronts. In: Dreams of the future or yesterday's news? Interdisciplinarity, internationality and topicality of futurism. Italian Cultural Institute, Cologne 2010.
• About love. In: What is love? An integral anthology about the facets of love. Phenomenon Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-933321-58-9 .

Publications in literary journals and anthologies (selection)

• AWM . In: Perspective - booklets for contemporary literature . Graz 2019.
• The shoe . In: Glitter - the gala of literary magazines . Berlin / Zurich 2018.
• In the net garden / whenever poem. In: literary magazine besides. Munich 2017.
• Soundtrack of my intricate presence / simulation of freedom / writing process research. In: [SIC] Journal for Literature. Aachen 2017.
• Disgusting rhyme. In: Tobias Roth (Ed.): Praise of the mechanical duck . SuKuLTuR , Berlin 2017.
• Poeto-narrative backstage journal. In: Matters with Words - magazine for literature and the like. Berlin 2015.
• Canidaeism. In: Fiction. Publishing house Berlin, Berlin 2014.
• The basin. In: Fiction. Publishing house Berlin, Berlin 2012.
• things: cotton things. In: Wonderland. The Brothers Grimm in Israel. Publishing house Berlin, Berlin 2010.
• Diffuse trilogy of reflection over a glass of elderflower lemonade. In: Fiction. Publishing house Berlin, Berlin 2009.
• Tragic interlude in the autumn backyard. In: Fiction. Publishing house Berlin, Berlin 2009.

Editorships (selection)

• Alexander Graeff (Ed.): Occult Art. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019.
• Günter Steinmeyer: Where hooked owls blare. Poetic polemics. Edition Paradogs, Berlin 2018.
• Wassily Kandinsky: Letters - Texts - Writings from the time at the Bauhaus. Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar 2016.
• Wassily Kandinsky: Forgotten oval. Poems from the estate. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2016. Together with Alexander Filyuta.
• Johannes Hertel: You are this sentence. Lyric drama. Edition Paradogs, Berlin 2016.
• Claas Hoffmann: Naked mole rat in the brine bath. Antiprosa. Edition Paradogs, Berlin 2015.

Multimedia (selection)

• Diffuse deliberation trilogy over a glass of elderflower lemonade. on YouTube
• To Anna Blume. on Youtube

Web links

Commons : Alexander Graeff  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alexander Graeff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• Edition Paradogs homepage
• Alexander Graeff at the publishing house in Berlin
• Review of The Reduction of Peach Sauces in the Delicious Event Horizon at queer.de
• Review of Kebehsenuf on Fixpoetry.com
• Entry on Alexander Graeff in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Short biography and information on the work of Alexander Graeff at Literaturport
• Short biography and information on the work of Alexander Graeff at Fixpoetry .com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Graeff: Writing against the norm (s). Fixpoetry, July 14, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014 . 
2. ↑ The form shows the hidden. Conversation with Alexander Graeff about the metaphysical in literature and art. In: Poet. 19, 2015, pp. 208-217. http://shop.alexander-graeff.de/Alexander-Graeff-Gespraech-poet-19.pdf
3. ↑ literatur-in-weissensee.blogspot.com