Bastian Schneider (writer)

Bastian Schneider (born February 3, 1981 in Siegen ) is a German writer and poet.

Life

Bastian Schneider grew up in Siegen. After his community service, he studied psychology as well as German and French literature in Marburg and Paris . He completed his literary studies with a thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on the poetry of Paul Celan .

In 2010 Schneider moved to Vienna, where he enrolled in the then newly founded language arts course at the University of Applied Arts . Here he discovered the so-called small form - miniatures, short stories, prose poems - that set the style for his writing.

From 2011 to 2016 Schneider oversaw the German complete edition of the works of James Tiptree Jr. for Septime Verlag , for which he also translated the poems Titpree and the short story 007 in New York by Ian Fleming into German for the first time.

In 2016 his debut Vom Wintererschlaf der Zugvögel was published by the Wiener Sonderzahl Verlag . In the same year he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt . From the text presented there came the book The Scripture, the Middle, the Consolation. Stadtstücke (2018). This was followed by a third volume with short prose with Paris in the title (2020).

Bastian Schneider is visiting professor for literary writing at the University of Cologne . He lives in Cologne and Vienna .

Works

As an author

• On the hibernation of migratory birds, Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna, 2016. ISBN 978-3-85449-449-2
• Somewhere, someone. Poems, parasite press, Cologne, 2017.
• İstanbul, harika, Edisyon Ekmek, Istanbul, 2017.
• The writing, the middle, the consolation. Stadtstücke, Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna, 2018. ISBN 978-3-85449-493-5
• A seam of light and black. Graphic novel , together with Moussa Kone et al. Walter Pamminger , Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna, 2018. ISBN 978-3-85449-496-6
• Paris in the title, Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna, 2020 ISBN 9783854495482

As translator

• Ian Fleming, 007 in New York , in: Die Großstädter, Septime Verlag, Vienna, 2012. ISBN 978-3-902711-10-6
• James Tiptree Jr., Nette Zettel , in: How to get a grip on infinity, essays, letters & poems, Septime Verlag, Vienna, 2016. ISBN 978-3-902711-42-7

As editor

• Meaning in small things , edition minutien, Cologne, 2019.
• FarbRaumKbody , edition absolut, Duisburg, 2020.

Awards

• 2008: Prix ​​des Étudiants de Service Culturel d'Université de Sorbonne
• 2013: Scholarship holder of the Klagenfurt literature course
• 2015: Walldorf Scholarship
• 2016: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship
• 2017: Sponsorship award from the state of NRW
• 2018: Dresden Poetry Prize ; 2nd prize at the Feldkircher Poetry Prize
• 2019: Dieter Wellershoff Scholarship
• 2020: Vienna Literature Scholarship

Trivia

In the early 1940s, the Austrian director, actor and writer Hans Karl Breslauer used the name "Bastian Schneider" as a pseudonym for his also very short texts, which he published in magazines such as the then very popular Wiener Magazin . In autumn 2017, in turn, Lettre International No. 118 published a text entitled "Bastian Schneider", which the Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas is said to have written.

Web links

• Literature by and about Schneider, Bastian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Schneider, Bastian in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Bastian Schneider , at: literaturport
• Bastian Schneider , at Sonderzahl Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bastian Schneider , at: Bachmann Prize