Andreas Maier (Author)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andreas Maier at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2019

Andreas Maier (born September 1, 1967 in Bad Nauheim ) is a German writer.

Life

Andreas Maier studied classical philology, German and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main . He was a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . His novels follow the tradition of the Austrian author Thomas Bernhard , with whom he dealt with his dissertation in 2002 (published as Die Verführung. Die Prosa Thomas Bernhard ). Maier's works are preferably set in the Wetterau , Tyrol or Frankfurt and address thoughtless language culture and (misguided) political actionism . Maier also expresses himself in newspaper articles and his poetry lectures on questions of politics , environmental protection and the right way of life . The author writes the column Neulich for the literary magazine Volltext . In 2010 these columns appeared collected about his uncle in Uncle J. Heimatkunde . His novels have been translated into more than ten languages. Maier lived in Brixen , South Tyrol, then in Frankfurt am Main . He has lived in Hamburg with his wife, the theologian Christine Büchner , since spring 2014 . He has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2005 and of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 2015.

Andreas Maier Frankfurt Book Fair (2013)

Awards

Poetics lectureships

In 2003 Maier took up lectureship in poetry in Mainz, and in 2006 in Frankfurt . In 2007 he held the poetry lectureship for young authors at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences . The Frankfurt lectures were published under the title Ich (2006).

Works

At a reading - 2010

To individual works

"Wäldchestag" (2000)

Wäldchestag tells of the death of Sebastian Adomeits, about whose fortune wild rumors circulate. The funeral of the deceased takes place on Pentecost Sunday, but the relatives who have traveled there have to wait until Pentecost Tuesday (on which the so-called Wäldchestag is traditionally celebrated in the Frankfurt area ) before the will can be opened.

The literary criticism drew comparisons to the prose of Thomas Bernhard and his "compulsion to observe", but also to the novels of Eckhard Henscheid and Arnold Stadler . Ulrich Greiner called the book written in the subjunctive a “stroke of genius”, Edo Reents an “irritating masterpiece”, while Sibylle Cramer criticized that the novel got lost “in the masses of material of a realistic social novel”.

"Klausen" (2002)

In Maier's second novel, the small South Tyrolean town of Klausen near Bolzano, which is dominated by the gigantic viaduct of the Brenner motorway , becomes the site of petty criminal entanglements and intrigues. The focus is on Josef Gasser, who is described as a “hard-working for nothing”, employee of the tourist association and brother of an admired actress.

The literary criticism called the novel, which manages without a single paragraph, an "evil provincial satire" with a "tendency towards the grotesque", told from the point of view of an "omniscient anecdote teller" who uses "conjunctive [n], blurred sentence constructions," Association scrub "indulge. Marius Meller calls Maier's talent for describing group phenomena sophisticated and skillful. Thomas Steinfeld stated that Maier had "written his first novel again", Ulrich Greiner criticized the lack of "plasticity" of the characters, but certified the work as 200 pages of "enjoyable reading"; Maier took the hurdle to the second novel with “swing and skill”. Frauke Meyer-Gosau is enthusiastic, including with regard to Maier's gift of exposing the villagers' fear of change.

"The seduction. The prose of Thomas Bernhard "(2004)

In his dissertation Maier questions the prose of Thomas Bernhard, in whose work he states "permanent adjustment as stylization".

Jan Süselbeck accuses Maier of having acted with "literary naivety" at the "level of Austrian tabloid readers". Paul Jandl read in his doctoral thesis “the paradoxical phenomenon of a negative theology”, while Thomas Meissner got the impression that Maier wanted to protect Bernhard against “certain affirmative and existentialist readings”.

"Kirillow" (2005)

Content of the novel: Frank Kober and Julian Nagel, who study at Frankfurt University, deal with the question of how to distinguish between false and true life. While Kober falls silent, Julian holds his circle of friends in suspense with provocations. Julian brings suicide into play on an excursion. A little later, the group sets out for a demonstration against the Castor transports to Wendland, in which Julian is seriously injured.

Nico Bleutge complained that the novel stumbled upon the "elementary catastrophe [...] of inconsistency", Ina Hartwig described the language used in the novel as a "kind of folk literature", Thomas Steinfeld called Maier a "particularly arrogant German writer" with " obnoxious humor ”.

→ Frankfurt am Main in literature. Andreas Maier Kirillov

"Bullau" (2006)

In Bullau , a mixture of memories, research and reflections, Maier and Christine Büchner describe their éducation naturelle based on walks in the Wetterau and Wendland, in South Tyrol and in the Odenwald .

Elisabeth von Thadden attested the book to "make language itself the subject", Eberhard Rathgeb called it a "treatise on the soul blessing of the experience of nature".

"I" (2006)

In his personal poetry lectures held in Frankfurt, Maier reports on his literary work, on his literary and personal role models, such as Dostoyevsky , Lucretius , Thomas Mann , but also Wolf Schmidt , the creator of the Hesselbach family TV series , in which the characters - similar to in Maier's novels - communicating past one another.

Maier's highest literary reference is the Gospel of Matthew :

“I'm just looking for words that have long been found, that are all there in the Gospel of Matthew, in perfect logical sequences, sharper than Wittgenstein ever could, an exhaustive analysis of why we are wrong and why We thereby become guilty above all and before everyone, namely merely by virtue of our untruthful actions. [...] The greatest philosophical work of the West. That tells us nothing but just: Don't be. That tells us: If you stop being, then you are. "

In the further course of the lectures, the author criticizes the literature business and the - from his point of view - wrong, because unreflected handling of nature and its resources:

“You get into your car in Berkersheim , come here, find a parking space, go to the lecture hall and listen to Andreas Maier. This action is wrong, if only because of the drive. Everyone knows that private traffic is heading for a delayed catastrophe. This should be prevented, but Maier should not be heard. […] In short, you are looking for evening entertainment and for it you destroy the world, you harm everyone as if these didn't count, but your evening entertainment. "

Steffen Martus read Maier's lectures as a “document of the anger and grief of a writer”, in which he could not discover, however, “surprising inventiveness”, “observation ability” or “outstanding intelligence”.

"Sanssouci" (2009)

The fatally injured director Max Hornung is buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery. The mourners Merle Johansson came from Potsdam with their little son Jesus, the neglected twins Heike and Arnold and some TV employees. The Russian-German Alexej, a novice in a Russian Orthodox monastery, has come from Munich.

Ina Hartwig called the novel “extremely strange” and attested to its de-sadesche qualities. Gustav Seibt found in the "disordered satirical [...] stories at best a lower crime scene level". Roman Bucheli was bothered by the novel's "limbo of indecision and formlessness".

"Uncle J .: local history" (2010)

This book is a collection column, resulting from Maier's for the literary journal full text written columns recently fed. Maier's uncle J. also plays a role here, who reappears in the novel Das Zimmer .

"The Room" (2010)

Maier received the Hessian Robert-Gernhardt-Förderpreis 2009 for a manuscript that again addresses the Wetterau . The jury praised "linguistic precision, [...] personal intensity and integrity" and a "close look at the brutal changes in the Wetterau landscape" . According to Maier, he is planning an eleven-part major work under the working title of “local bypass”, the individual titles of which have already been determined, including “Das Zimmer”, “Das Haus”, “Die Straße”, “Der Ort”, at some point “Der Teufel” "Dear God". The novel Das Zimmer , in which the uncle, familiar to the reader from Maier's column book Onkel J. Heimatkunde (2010), is the main character, was published in September 2010.

"The House" (2011)

With the novel Das Haus , Maier continued the previously announced series of novels in December 2011.

"The Road" (2013)

The third part of his eleven-part autobiographical novel series was published in 2013, The Road .

"The Place" (2015)

The fourth part of the “local bypass” appeared in 2015 under the title Der Ort .

"My year without Udo Jürgens" (2015)

Twice a month, for a year, Maier's column on Udo Jürgens (after his death) appeared in the Suhrkamp Verlag logbook under the title My year without Udo Jürgens . The book accompanying the column was published in 2015. When he encountered the music of Udo Jürgens 5 years ago there was a “moment of self-enlightenment”, according to the author, “in which the question suddenly arose in me: 'What do you actually have against this music? With what prejudice do you approach this music? '".

"The Circle" (2016)

The novel Der Kreis was published in August 2016 as the fifth volume of the “local bypass” .

"The University" (2018)

The sixth volume of the “local bypass” was published in February 2018, the novel Die Universität .

"The Family" (2019)

The seventh volume of the "local bypass" was published in June 2019, the novel The Family .

literature

  • Friedmar Apel: Appearance and reflection. Laudation for Andreas Maier. In: Hubert Winkels (ed.): Andreas Maier meets Wilhelm Raabe. The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2010. Reprint (= edition suhrkamp), Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, pp. 27–34.
  • David-Christopher Assmann: Extrinsic or what? Bodo Kirchhoff and Andreas Maier in the attention market. In: Matthias Beilein et al. (Ed.): Canon, evaluation and mediation. Literature in the knowledge society. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, pp. 239–259.
  • David-Christopher Assmann: Poetologies of the literary business. Scenes at Kirchhoff, Maier, Gstrein and Händler (= studies and texts on the social history of literature, 139). de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014.
  • Henk Harbers: "Anyone can talk". Nihilistic themes in the work of Andreas Maier. In: Weimar Contributions. Journal for literary studies, aesthetics and cultural studies, 56 (2010), No. 2, pp. 193–212.
  • Boris Hege: “It's just gossip” - cultural and other identity constructs in Andreas Maier's “Sanssouci”. In: Ders .: Writing about Russia. The construction of space, history and cultural identity in German narrative texts since 1989. Winter, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 367–391.
  • Jakob Christoph Heller: Lovely places. Destruction, construction and reflection of mediated world perception with Andreas Maier. In: Jan Gerstner / Christian Riedel (ed.): Idylls in contemporary literature and media. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1279-9 .
  • Yvonne Hütter: “To be, a task.” Andreas Maier and the philosophies of Meister Eckhart and Carlo Michelstaedter . Chironeia - The unworthy arts, studies of German literature since early modernism, Volume 7. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-852-4 .
  • Tilmann Köppe: The subjunctive in Andreas Maier's novel “Wäldchestag” and the theory of metafictionality. In: J. Alexander Bareis, Frank Thomas Grub (eds.): Metafiktion. Analyzes of contemporary German literature. Kadmos, Berlin 2010, pp. 115-133.
  • Johannes Schwitalla: Speech and dialogue design in Andreas Maier's novel Wäldchestag. In: Anne Betten, Monika Dannerer (ed.): Dialogue Analysis IX: Dialogue in Literature and the Media. Selected Papers from the 9th IADA Conference, Salzburg 2003. Part 1: Literature. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, pp. 183-195.
  • Jan Süselbeck: The misunderstanding. On Andreas Maier's reception of Thomas Bernhard's prose. In: Martin Huber et al. (Ed.): Thomas Bernhard Yearbook 2005/2006. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2006, pp. 191-201.
  • Uwe Wirth: Mr. Maier becomes a writer (and writer). Or: the 'literary studies' of literature. In: Journal for German Studies - New Series, XVII (2007), No. 1, pp. 128-138.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Maier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Link collections

Texts by Maier

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discover talent, promote talent. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2005, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Maier: Recently. In: full text. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ A lunch with… Andreas Maier. (No longer available online.) In: frankfurt.prinz.de. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; accessed on December 27, 2018 .
  4. ^ The theologian: Christine Büchner. In: Abendblatt.de . April 8, 2014, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Author grant from the Arno Schmidt Foundation for Andreas Maier. In: suhrkamp.de. July 17, 2015, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Review notes on Wäldchestag at perlentaucher.de
  7. ↑ a b c d e f review notes on Klausen at perlentaucher.de
  8. ↑ a b c d e review notes on Die Verführung at perlentaucher.de
  9. ↑ a b c Review notes on Kirillow at perlentaucher.de
  10. ↑ a b review notes on Bullau at perlentaucher.de
  11. ↑ a b Andreas Maier: I. Frankfurt am Main 2006
  12. ↑ Review notes on Me at perlentaucher.de
  13. ↑ a b c review notes on Sanssouci at perlentaucher.de
  14. ^ Morals and comedy - New Robert Gernhardt Promotion Prize - News 367/2009. In: poetenladen.de. July 20, 2009, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Tobias Becker: Reading out. Memory portrait . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2010 ( online - September 27, 2010 ).
  16. ↑ Tobias Becker: Puberty novel by Andreas Maier: In the witch house. In: Spiegel Online . September 25, 2013, accessed on December 27, 2018 (detailed review).
  17. ↑ Review notes on The place at perlentaucher.de
  18. ^ Andreas Maier: "My year without Udo Jürgens" - How love works in Schlager. Andreas Maier in conversation with Frank Meyer. In: deutschlandradiokultur.de. December 18, 2015, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Review notes on Der Kreis at perlentaucher.de
  20. ↑ Review notes on The University at perlentaucher.de
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Nauheim