Björn Kern

Björn Kern (born April 22, 1978 in Lörrach ) is a German writer .

Life

Björn Kern was born in Lörrach ( South Baden ) in 1978 , grew up in Schopfheim and attended the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium there . After working in a home for the mentally ill and old in southern France , he studied in Tübingen , Passau and Aix-en-Provence as well as at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . In 2007 he was invited to the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt .

In his novels he primarily deals with his experiences as a community service provider, for example in Die Erlöser AG , which was filmed for ZDF in 2012 . Since 2016 he has been focusing on the topics of minimalism , nature writing and post-growth in an essay-narrative form .

He lives in Berlin and in the Oderbruch .

Works

• 2001: tipping point . Roman, dtv , Munich, ISBN 3-423-62062-5
• 2005: Once more Marseille . Roman, Verlag CH Beck , Munich, ISBN 3-406-53551-8
• 2007: The Erlöser AG . Roman, Verlag CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-56374-4
• 2010: My father's erotic talent . Roman, Verlag CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-59837-1
• 2016: The best we can do is nothing . "Memoir and Manifest", S. Fischer Verlag , ISBN 978-3-596-03531-1
• 2019: outdoors. Adventure at the door. S. Fischer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-596-70201-5

Other publications

• 2006: ice fishing . Story, in BELLA triste No. 15
• 2010: end of season . SuKuLTuR , Berlin, “ Beautiful Reading ” No. 99, ISBN 978-3-941592-18-6
• Stories in Edit , Waspennest , Allmende , Am Erker , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Junge Welt u. a.

Awards

• 2011 Alfred Döblin scholarship
• 2010 Casa Baldi scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
• 2009 Prize of the International Lake Constance Conference
• 2008 London grant from the German Literature Fund
• 2008 Heinrich Heine grant
• 2007 Brothers Grimm Prize from the city of Hanau
• 2006 SWR best list
• 2006 Berlin Senate Scholarship
• 2006 artist village Schöppingen
• 2005 Funding from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• 2004 Funding by the German Literature Fund
• 2002 Hans im Glück Prize

Film adaptations

• Erlöser AG was filmed in 2012 with Anna Loos and Herbert Knaup under the title Come, beautiful death for ZDF . Director: Friedemann Fromm

theatre

• Once again Marseille was adapted for the theater by Alexander Ritter in 2013 and premiered at the Rottstraße 5 Theater in Bochum

Web links

• Literature by and about Björn Kern in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Björn Kern's work at Literaturport
• Official website of Björn Kern
• Interview in Bookmarks (BR) (video, approx. 7 min.) ( Memento from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Kern for dedication in his novel "My father's erotic talent"

Individual evidence

1. ^ ZDF press release from March 18, 2011