Benjamin Stein

This article is about the German writer, journalist and publicist Benjamin Stein. For the American actor, author, and lawyer, see Ben Stein .

Benjamin Stein (2011)

Benjamin Stein (* 6. June 1970 as Matthias Albrecht in East Berlin ) is a German writer , journalist and publicist .

Career

Benjamin Stein grew up in the eastern part of Berlin. The first chapter of his novel The Dragonfly Wing appeared in the GDR literary magazine Temperamente as early as 1989 . Already at this point in time, Stein published under a pseudonym, and later he also used this name in “all of bourgeois life.” After graduating from high school, he worked as a night porter in a nursing home until the fall of 1989. From 1990 he studied Jewish Studies (at the Free University of Berlin ) and Hebrew Studies (at the Humboldt University in Berlin ). In 1993 he took part in the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

His first novel Das Alphabet des Juda Liva was published in 1995. This was followed by journalistic work as an editor and correspondent for various German and American computer magazines. Since 1998 he has been working as a freelance consultant in the field of information technology. He is married with four children and lives in Munich. His poetry and prose has received several awards, including a. 1996 with the sponsorship award of the cultural group at the Federal Association of German Industry . Stein was co-editor of the literary magazine spa_'tien, which appeared from 2006 to 2008, and has been the owner of Edition Neue Moderne since 2008. He runs the literary weblog Turmsegler (named after a poem by René Char ). His novel The Canvas , published in 2010, was awarded the Tukan Prize in the same year . He also received the Bavarian Art Prize for this in 2010 . His third novel, Replay , was published in January 2012 .

Publications (selection)

• The Alphabet of Juda Liva (novel), Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1995 (paperback Munich 1998)
• Literary weblogs (anthology), publisher / author, edition taberna kritika , Bern 2008
• Another blue (prose for 7 voices), Edition Neue Moderne, Munich 2008
• (as editor :) Charlotte Grasnick : So nakedly turned to you (Gesammelte Gedichte), Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2010
• The canvas (novel), C. H. Beck, Munich 2010 (paperback Munich 2012)
• Replay (novel), C. H. Beck, Munich 2012
• The alphabet of Rabbi Löw (novel, completely revised version of The Alphabet of Juda Liva ), Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943167-79-5
• Another blue (prose for 7 voices), revised edition, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-957320827

literature

• Volker Ladenthin : Every letter is a twenty-second of the world. (About “The Alphabet of Juda Liva” and Ingo Schulze's “33 Moments of Happiness”.) In: neue deutsche literatur 44 (1996), issue 1, pp. 163–166.
• Leslie Morris / Karen Remmler: Introduction. In this. (Ed.): Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany. An Anthology. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2002. (see here )
• Sven-Eric Wehmeyer: Replay. In: The Science Fiction Year 2013. Edited by Sascha Mamczak , Sebastian Pirling and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, pp. 438–440, ISBN 978-3-453-53444-5 .
• Hans-Joachim Hahn: Stein, Benjamin. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 481f.

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Stein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Benjamin Stein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Benjamin Stein at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Benjamin Stein at perlentaucher.de
• Benjamin Stein in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Benjamin Stein in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Works by and about Benjamin Stein at Open Library
• Biographical information on the author's official homepage (turmsegler.net)
• Homepage of Edition Neue Moderne
• Extensive review of the novel "The Canvas" (accompanistin.net)
• The fakes of identity Review of Benjamin Stein: The canvas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Kiwus : Berlin, a place to write. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-351-02441-X , p. 475
2. ↑ Benjamin Stein: The dragonfly wing. In: Temperamente, issue 4/1989.
3. ↑ Benjamin Stein: Family History, blog post on Stein's blog "Tower Sailor" from June 14, 2010.
4. ↑ See http://archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at/25_jahre/1993/autoren_1993.htm
5. ↑ See https://turmsegler.net/autoren/