Antonia Baum

Antonia Baum at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018.

Antonia Baum (* 1984 in Borken ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Baum grew up in the Odenwald and graduated from the Martin Luther School in Rimbach . She studied literature , history and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . During her studies she published short stories, in 2011 the novel Completely lifeless, at best dead . She wrote for the weekly newspaper der Freitag , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper and Zeit Online . She has been writing the monthly column Mein Leben als Frau for Zeit Online since January 2020 .

Baum lives in Berlin . Her journalistic work deals primarily with rap , feminism and literature .

reception

Completely Lifeless, At Best Dead (2011)

Her debut novel, Completely lifeless, at best dead , was discussed in all the major German daily and weekly newspapers and met with mixed responses. The reviewer of the time attested to Baum that she gave “sugar to the angry monkey” in her novel, but the fury of the novel was somewhat flirtatious and was “a narcissistic rage attack.” The daily newspaper described the novel as “abstract aggro staccato” and certified Antonia Baum has a "dissecting power of observation and the ability to push the sentences into the unbearable, unbearable" for the novel as well as for her journalistic work. "In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the novel was" pure waste of paper "," adolescent "," perfect. " lifeless "and" terribly bad "panned.

I grew up in a junkyard where I learned to feed on hubcaps and bumpers (2015)

Baum's second novel, I grew up in a junkyard where I learned to feed on hubcaps and bumpers , again divided reviewers , published in 2015 . According to Tilman Strasser's review in Der Tagesspiegel , the novel lacks energetic editing: the reader is groping in the dark, the plot treads on the spot. Dana Buchzik judged differently in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , which said: “This novel is a great book. Antonia Baum simply tells mercilessly well. ”Jurek Skrobala from Spiegel Online compared Antonia Baum's work with a“ rap the length of a novel ”. In Die Zeit , Moritz Baßler finally judged :“ Poetically dense, reflected - good; funny, moving, a page turner ”about Antonia Baum's story of three siblings and their love for their crazy father.

Odenwald article

At the beginning of 2014, Baum's autobiographical article about her childhood in the village of Odenwald appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , which she describes as consistently terrible in relation to people and architecture and which she blames for anti-social behavior and drug consumption within a youth group. Descriptions such as “Odenwald Hell” and “most hideous place in the world” provoked strong protests and counter-campaigns among citizens and politicians in the region.

On the part of the editors, however, the text was defended with reference to the "literary genre of insulting the place".

Works

• Completely lifeless, dead at best . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40296-4 .
• I grew up in a junkyard where I learned to feed on hubcaps and bumpers . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-40337-4 .
• Tony Soprano doesn't die . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-40572-9 . Also as an e-book.
• Still life . Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05820-9 . Also as an e-book.

Web links

• Literature by and about Antonia Baum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Antonia Baum on perlentaucher.de
• Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe
• Antonia Baum in the authors' dictionary of the University of Duisburg
• Video reading by Antonia Baum from Completely lifeless, at best dead
• Video reading by Antonia Baum from I grew up in a junkyard ...

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Antonia Baum: This piece of Germany. In: FAZ.net . January 1, 2014, accessed December 14, 2014 . 
2. ↑ It could be any place where there is no relationship . ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) wnoz.de
3. ↑ Antonia Baum freitag.de
4. ↑ Antonia Baum faz.net (archive version from March 24, 2017)
5. ↑ Antonia Baum zeit.de
6. ↑ My life as a woman zeit.de
7. ↑ perlentaucher.de
8. ^ Ijoma Mangold : Novel by Antonia Baum: "A world full of shit" . In: Die Zeit , No. 47/2011
9. ↑ Jan Wehn: Debut novel in aggro-staccato. In: taz.de. October 15, 2011, accessed December 14, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Banal Phase or The Dilettantes of the Miracle . In: FAZ , October 25, 2011.
11. ^ Tilman Strasser: Hip-Hop in a Haystack . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 18, 2015, p. 28; review
12. ^ Dana Buchzik in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 16, 2015
13. ↑ Jurek Skrobala: "Don't be the ass of the nation". In: Spiegel Online . April 8, 2015, accessed July 13, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Moritz Baßler: Großkotz and Kleinganove . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/2015
15. ↑ Frank van Bebber: Hello Berlin, greetings from hell. ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: hr-online.de . January 9, 2014. 
16. ^ Karl-Heinz Schlitt: Youth trauma . In: morgenweb.de , January 13, 2014