Benjamin Maack

Benjamin Maack (born April 3, 1978 in Winsen (Luhe) ) is a German journalist and writer .

Benjamin Maack receives the 3sat Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature 2013

Life

Benjamin Maack has lived in Hamburg as an editor and freelance writer since 1998 . He studied art history, philosophy and folklore.

In addition to the individual publications Monster , The world is a parking lot and ends in front of Disneyland and it's not you, it's Coca Cola, he published poems and stories in anthologies (including power - Organized Literature, Rotbuch Verlag 2002; Hamburger Ziegel, Jahrbuch für Literatur, Dölling & Galitz 2002; Scattered Light (Minimal Trash Art 2003)). He appeared regularly at literary events such as the Machtclub , Poets on the Beach , Kaffee.Satz.Lesen and TRANSIT . He was a co-organizer of the power club, which was funded by the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Maack was also the head of the tape label EK and performed as a musician himself .

Benjamin Maack worked as an editor for the magazines Prinz , Blond and 23 and made the wing chair podcast together with Bernd Begemann . On the split screen , the podcast of the video game magazine GEE , he spoke to guests from the editorial team about current video games . In January 2008 Maack became editor at einestages , from November 2012 deputy department head, from January 2013 department head. Benjamin Maack has been editor in the Panorama section since October 2015.

In October 2012, he was named by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as one of the 20 most important young contemporary authors. At the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2013 , he received the 3sat Prize from Joachim Kaltenbach for his contribution “How to catch a beetle correctly” .

If that still works, it can't be that bad as a text for Suhrkamp and as a radio play for NDR in 2020 .

Works

• If that still works, it can't be that bad . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-518-47073-2 .
• Monster . mairisch Verlag, Hamburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-938539-21-7 .
• The world is a parking lot and ends in front of Disneyland . Stories, Minimal Trash Art, Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-9808788-6-9 .
• It's not you, it's Coca Cola . Poems, Minimal Trash Art, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 978-3-9808788-2-1 .

Awards

• Prize for the Hermann Hesse Prize 2016
• 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2013
• Hamburg Prize for Literature 2012
• Sponsorship award for the Kranichstein Literature Prize 2012
• Radio play of the month March 2020 for If that still works, it can't be that bad , director: Iris Drögekamp (NDR)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile for one day
2. ↑ Benjamin Maack - Imprint - SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved January 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ All boys must be called Benjamin in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of October 7, 2012, page 46
4. ↑ Benjamin Maack: "How to catch a beetle correctly" by Joachim Kaltenbach. In: Days of German-Language Literature 2013. Retrieved on January 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Benjamin Maack: If that still works, it can't be that bad | History of depression. In: NDR radio play box. Retrieved March 10, 2020 . 
6. ↑ NDR: If that still works, it can't be that bad. Retrieved May 14, 2020 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Benjamin Maack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Benjamin Maack's work at Literaturport
• Power club website: MACHT - Organized Literature. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009 ; accessed on May 9, 2017 . 
• Website of the cassette label EK
• Split screen podcast website
• Radio play series "IKARIA 6": https://www.ndr.de/ndrkultur/sendung/hoerspiel/Hoerspiel-Ikaria-6-Teil-1,sendung957202.html