Alexander Wallasch

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Alexander Wallasch (2013)

Alexander Wallasch (* 1964 in Braunschweig , pseudonym: Alexander Wall ) is a German writer , journalist , columnist and copywriter .

Life

Wallasch studied theater studies and was the bouncer and operator of various nightclubs, cafes and bars in Braunschweig in the 1990s.

In 2006 he published his first novel "Hotel Monopol", followed in 2010 by " Deutscher Sohn " (with Ingo Niermann ) and in 2013 "Horse meat and plastic flowers: stories and columns from the shadow economy", stories from his hometown. Today it is included in pop literature.

In a legal dispute in early 2010 with the Hamburg filmmaker Fatih Akın um von Wallasch, who claimed “striking similarities” between his debut novel “Hotel Monopol” and Akın's film Soul Kitchen, Wallasch was defeated in court and since then has not been able to claim that the comedy was the film adaptation of his novel “Hotel Monopoly ”.

From 2008 to 2012 Wallasch was a columnist for the Braunschweig free magazine Subway . From 2011 to 2013 he presented books by young authors at the now discontinued Braunschweig music magazine Headliner and was also part of the editorial team. He wrote a weekly column for The European from 2012 to 2015. Wallasch published a few articles in Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , the daily newspaper , Cicero , Braunschweiger Zeitung and Prager Frühling . He has been a columnist for the online magazine Tichys Insight since 2016 .

reception

“German son” was the subject of controversy in autumn 2010. While the Süddeutsche Zeitung raved about the “first great novel about those returning from the war of our day”, which, when we were “ripe for the cold truth”, would have to hit like a bomb, and Ingeborg Harms in the Frankfurter Allgemeine cheered a hybrid masterpiece that two Centuries after Goethe “rethinking the cosmopolitan legacy of classical music”, the Marburg literary scholar Jan Süselbeck said in the daily newspaper that “the majority [...] of the novel is filled with misogynous and racist Germania myth phantoms”: “Boy NPD voters should be able to enjoy this text at least as much as unteachable pop literature dandies. "

Eckhard Schimpf writes for the Braunschweiger Zeitung about Wallasch's “Horse meat and plastic flowers: stories and columns from the shadow economy”: “Wallasch [...] portrayed his hometown in a way that hardly anyone has done before him. He doesn’t believe in snuffling or talking nicely. He tells relentlessly, often in a slightly dirty way. But sometimes with a twinkle in the eye when he brings himself into play. ” European colleague Birgit Kelle sees the strength of this book in the author's self-reflection.

Publications

Award

  • 2014: Golden Mole of the portal Der Umblätterer for the best feature texts of the year (9th place)

Web links

Commons : Alexander Wallasch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Lindemann: Dispute about Fatih Akin's new film Soul Kitchen Die Welt from November 9, 2009
  2. ↑ 20th Century SUBWAY ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ DeBug
  4. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Plagiarism allegations: Soul Kitchen - Associations & Inspirations In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 296 of December 23, 2009
  5. ↑ Thomas Lindemann: Dispute about Fatih Akin's new film "Soul Kitchen" In: Die Welt , November 9, 2009
  6. ↑ Headliner Magazine
  7. ↑ Portrait of the author at TheEuropean
  8. ^ Authors' register DIE ZEIT
  9. ↑ Review of Matthias Matussek "The Catholic Adventure"
  10. ↑ Everyday life on the palm
  11. ↑ Cicero, 'Jakob Augstein's Flirtation with Violence'
  12. ↑ The House of Sorrows
  13. ↑ Bülend Ürük; From Monday at the kiosk: Tichy's insight starts with a four-digit number of subscribers , kressnews from October 9, 2016
  14. ↑ The Amfortas in his adidas pants. In: Badische Zeitung of November 23, 2010
  15. ↑ Jan Süselbeck: Wälsungenblut, German religious In: the daily newspaper , October 9, 2010.
  16. ↑ A book about the shady corners of our city braunschweiger-zeitung.de, accessed on January 8, 2019
  17. ↑ Wallasch's horse meat and plastic flowers theeuropean.com, accessed on January 9, 2019
  18. ↑ Best of Feuilleton umblaetterer.de, accessed on January 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wallasch, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wall, Alexander (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and copywriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig