Angelika Klüssendorf

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Angelika Klüssendorf at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018

Angelika Klüssendorf (born October 26, 1958 in Ahrensburg ) is a German writer .

Life

Angelika Klüssendorf grew up in the GDR . From 1961 she lived in Leipzig , where she trained as a zoo technician / mechanizer . 1985 moved it to West Germany. She has two children; she was married to the father of her son, the journalist and FAZ co-editor Frank Schirrmacher . She has been married to the writer Torsten Schulz since 2017 .

Angelika Klüssendorf is an author of narrative works and plays. In 1989 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. Since then she has been on the shortlist for the German Book Prize several times and has received various literary prizes, including the SWR best list .

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Volumes of short stories

In 1990 Angelika Klüssendorf published her first book Desires. A story that was very well received in the features section. This was followed by the story The Attack of Luck in 1994 and the volumes of stories From all Heavens and Amateurs in 2004 and 2009 . In the reviews of Aus allen Himmeln , Klüssendorf's great storytelling talent is praised, as is her ability to construct “virtuosically uncomplicated”.

Meike Feßmann writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the most recent volume of short stories Amateure : "[Angelika Klüssendorf] found a tone that convincingly transfers the essence of the American short story into the German language, where two different mentalities meet in one language." Many of the stories in the GDR are often mentioned by critics, but at the same time it is pointed out that the strength of their texts lies in the overarching relevance of the topics.

Novels

Angelika Klüssendorf's work comprises four novels: Everyone lives like this from 2001 and a trilogy , starting with Das Mädchen (2011), followed by April (2014) and years later (2018).

All live like that

Angelika Klüssendorf's first novel Alle Leben so from 2001 is often read in direct connection with her stories, because here, too, narrative instances change and different narrators determine the text. The fate of this is connected in new ways through the individual chapters, but the novel remains episodic nonetheless. For Kristina Maidt-Zinke ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), it is a novel full of deceptions and riddles, the ghost of Franz Kafka haunts the pages.

The girl

The girl marks Klüssendorf's breakthrough as an author. The first volume of Klüssendorf's trilogy was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2011. He tells of the growing up of the "girl" who remains nameless throughout the first volume and whose childhood is marked by cruelty and horror: the father drinks, the mother is a tyrant who takes out her anger on the children - a family without love, and this in the GDR in the 1970s, where the girl who will later end up in the children's home has no easy life anyway. The novel is highly praised by the critics, among other things, Klüssendorf's handling of social misery and the quiet but pointed narration inspire the reviewers. Die Zeit describes the novel as "one of the most radical and moving adolescent novels in the German language".

April

In 2014 Angelika Klüssendorf continued the novel trilogy that began with Das Mädchen in April , and this novel is also on the shortlist of the German Book Prize. The girl is now named April after a Deep Purple song, she has grown up and works as an office worker in Leipzig. She turned to art and literature, tried to explore her own limits and left for the West in 1985. But her childhood is not forgotten, memories keep coming back and she struggles with the experiences of the past. The criticism emphasizes the extraordinary language of this novel, which is "next to the main character the real heroine". Klüssendorf knows how to condense, but at the same time the pull of this prose is enormous.

Years later

Years later , in 1989. The last volume of the trilogy tells of April's marriage years and dissects a relationship that quickly turns out to be disappointing. April, who has already devoted herself to literature in the novel of the same name, suffers from writer's block and falls into depression. For Heide Soltau, “Angelika Klüssendorf succeeded in another masterpiece years later . Concise in form and radical in content, this book inexorably brings the story of a marriage to the point ”. With the novel, Klüssendorf ends a cycle "that doesn't have to be a lot of words to fathom the bottomlessness of existence," says Ijoma Mangold in Die Zeit . In addition, many reviewers consider the novel to be a successful conclusion to the trilogy, in which, according to Christel Wester of Deutschlandfunk Kultur, on the one hand the history of the other two volumes shines through, on the other hand the whole thing is expanded into a complex novel of development and artists in which literature as Act as a lifeline. Stephan Wackwitz then referred to Klüssendorf's trilogy in the taz as the " Anton Reiser of the reunited German Republic".

The criticism draws parallels between April's husband and Frank Schirrmacher, Angelika Klüssendorf's first husband. Jens Bisky writes about this in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Anyone who reads your novel [...] like a home story will only see the shadows of their own prejudices and thus deprive themselves of great intellectual pleasure. "Years later" is an artistically concentrated, suggestive, highly ironic social novel, if one understands society in the elementary sense, as a web of improbable, unstable relationships. "

Awards

Works

Autograph by Angelika Klüssendorf

Web links

Commons : Angelika Kluessendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Proximity and violence In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 24, 2004.
  6. ↑ Reviews on “Aus allen Himmeln” In: buecher.de . Last accessed on June 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ Reviews on “Amateure” In: buecher.de . Last accessed on June 20, 2018.
  8. ↑ Proximity and violence In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 24, 2004.
  9. ↑ Filippo Smerilli: Angelika Klüssendorf, in: Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature - KLG, Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2014 In: users.unimi.it . Last accessed June 20, 2018.
  10. ↑ Reviews on “Alle leben so” In: buecher.de . Last accessed on June 20, 2018.
  11. ↑ A half-veiled doom In: taz . 5th February 2018.
  12. ↑ Presentation of the book on the website of the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house In: www.kiwi-verlag.de . Last accessed on June 20, 2018.
  13. ↑ / A heroine of our time In: Die Zeit . November 22, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Revelations" about Frank Schirrmacher? ( Memento from June 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: MDR Kultur . Last accessed on June 20, 2018.
  15. ↑ Free floating fears In: NZZ . September 24, 2014.
  16. ↑ minefield of emotions In: Germany radio culture . March 18, 2014.
  17. ↑ Fucking rich, but decent In: Die Zeit . January 24, 2018.
  18. ↑ Balance of a toxic marriage In: Deutschlandfunk . February 22, 2018.
  19. ↑ A half-veiled doom In: taz . 5th February 2018.
  20. ↑ Reviews on “Years Later” In: buecher.de . Last accessed on June 21, 2018.
  21. ↑ List of winners on the website of the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize Foundation in Karlsruhe
  22. ↑. Benedikt Erenz: Fiction and non-fiction - review in: Die Zeit No. 9, February 24, 2005.
  23. ↑ Gabriele Killert: Women in half mourning. Review in: DIE ZEIT No. 20, May 7, 2009
  24. ^ Between stick insect and wader in: FAZ of August 20, 2011, page Z5
personal data
SURNAME Klüssendorf, Angelika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klüssendorf-Schirrmacher, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrensburg