Benjamin Lebert
Benjamin Lebert (born January 9, 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German writer .
His debut novel Crazy (1999) was translated into 33 languages and had a circulation of 1.2 million copies by 2014. Benjamin Lebert currently lives in Hamburg .
Life
Benjamin Lebert is a son of the journalist Andreas Lebert ; his grandparents are the authors Ursula and Norbert Lebert .
His father was a co-founder of the youth supplement Jetzt of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , for which Lebert wrote some articles. The publisher's editor Kerstin Gleba ( Kiepenheuer & Witsch ) became aware of him and encouraged him to write an entire novel . In the autobiographical work Crazy Lebert deals with typical problems of young people, but also his disability; he is paralyzed on one side .
After the success of his debut the 17-year-old Lebert gave courses at the New York University for Creative Writing . At the age of 16 Benjamin Lebert had dropped out of school in the ninth grade without a certificate; in 2003 he made up his secondary school diploma . After leaving home, he lived in Freiburg and Berlin for some time and has lived in Hamburg ever since. Lebert is a founding member of the Lübeck Literature Meeting .
Works
Novels
- Crazy . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-462-02818-9 .
- The story of the little dog that couldn't bark. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2002 (together with Ursula Lebert), ISBN 3-596-85077-0 .
- The bird is a raven . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-462-03336-0 .
- You can. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-462-03664-0 .
- The flight of the pelicans. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04095-1 .
- In winter your heart . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-40360-2 .
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Midnight Walk. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-40437-1 .
- Midnight Walk. Audiobook in the series Horror Cabinet , Volume 105, Titania Medien 2015, ISBN 978-3-7857-5168-8 .
- The darkness between the stars. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397312-9 .
- In the sign of eight. Arctis Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-03880-033-0 .
Film adaptations
- Crazy , 2000, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid , with Robert Stadlober , Tom Schilling and Oona Devi Liebich
Translations
- Tenth grade (original title: 10th grade ) by Joseph Weisberg , 2007
editor
- Ernest Hemingway / F. Scott Fitzgerald : We're bloody lousy acrobats. A friendship in letters, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40466-1 .
literature
- Iris Alanyali: “The heart thinks for itself”. In: Die Welt , August 9, 2003; portrait
Web links
- Literature by and about Benjamin Lebert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe
- Interpretations and list of works in the author's lexicon of the University of Duisburg-Essen / Faculty of Humanities - German Studies
- Cicero Ranking - List of the 500 leading German-speaking intellectuals
- Video reading flight of the pelicans on tenseiten.de
- "Like an alien". Interview with Benjamin Lebert about his book Flight of the Pelicans in the magazine U_mag, March 2009
- Success is a mystery. Interview with Benjamin Lebert (November 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benjamin Lebert reads from “Mitternachtsweg” . In: Die Welt , October 21, 2014.
- ↑ Matthias Kalle, Christine Meffert: "One can fall in love with unhappiness" . In: Zeit-Magazin , No. 9/2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lebert, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |