Boris Preckwitz

Boris Preckwitz (born December 8, 1968 in Hanover ) is a German writer and politician ( AfD ). His literary work includes poetry, essay, prose and drama.

Life

Boris Preckwitz studied German, philosophy, Iranian and political science in Göttingen and Hamburg, comparative literature in London and management in Berlin and Cambridge. In addition to his work as an author, he is active in marketing and public relations.

He has been a member of the Alternative for Germany party since 2013 . He was an assessor in the district board of AfD Berlin-Mitte. and is the coordinator of the State Committee on Art and Culture of AfD Berlin.

Act

In 1997 Preckwitz became the first German poet to take part in a national poetry slam in the USA. The following year he won the literature competition open mike of the Berlin literature workshop . In 2002 he founded the international SLAM! Review of the international literature festival berlin . In the following years he viewed the development of the German-language poetry slam scene, which he also accompanied theoretically in its early days, increasingly critically and described it as “kitsch in performance”.

poetry

The Berliner Morgenpost wrote about the poetological concept of his first volume of poems, szene ● Leben : “Popular culture meets classical canon and literary traditions are naturally placed side by side.” In his poetry cycle wahnpalast , he reflects on the causes and side effects of the so-called euro crisis . The volume Kampfansage includes other poems and two essays on contemporary poetry as well as the eponymous long poem. This - according to the self-promotion of the publisher - judges "about a society frozen in mindlessness and good opinion (...) about a state that pursues the political and economic incapacitation of its citizens", a tendency that the reviewer Burkhard Müller as "Simplest [n] national egoism" interpreted. In 2015 he started his literary blog Militanz der Mitte , which also contained political poetry with a conservative tendency as well as Islamophobic and xenophobic texts. In the left spectrum of the slam scene he was then referred to as the “bard of the new fascism”. His concept of political lyric poetry is ideally related to Solon's poetry , especially his Eunomia elegy and its foundation in Mythos and Thymos .

play

For the Reformation anniversary in 2017 , the Protestant Passion was created , a libretto for an oratorio about the spiritual world and the history of Protestantism. In 2018, after several years of work, the drama Niobe followed. Space in a state of emergency , which, as a political play, deals with “geopolitical questions and mechanisms of political manipulation”. In it Preckwitz relocates the tragic myth of the Theban Queen Niobe to the time of the Persian Wars and projected both onto today's migration movements. “An urban community in a crisis situation, standing between two warring parties […] - these structures are still in place today. The same patterns can be found in the conflict between Europe and the Islamists, ”the Dresdner Latest Nachrichten quoted the author, whose piece processes right-wing populist positions in order to offer them as an interpretation model for current socio-political events, especially the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 . In his theatrical aesthetic program, he described the drama as “agonistic realism”, a lesson on social struggles for hegemony in times of political crises. In terms of art aesthetics, this concept refers to the agonistics of Chantal Mouffe .

Essay and translation

Following his master's thesis on poetry slam, further essays and articles on performance literature were written. According to the concrete, present-oriented political program, Preckwitz distances in his essay cranky books of poetological approaches hermetic poetry.

In 2014, Preckwitz presented the first translation of the long poem Der fiegen Proletarian by the Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky , which had not yet been translated into German .

Positions

He described the contemporary left discourse hegemony as "left culturalism", an "autoimmune disease of the German cultural nation against itself triggered by the spirit of the 1968".

Because open and proactive advertising for homosexual marriages would contradict the gospel , Preckwitz applied for disciplinary proceedings against responsible superintendents of the Evangelical Church in the summer of 2017. They had organized a CSD car at the Berlin parade. The “preferences” of individual officials should not contradict the moral standards of the community believers. There is no mention of marriage blessings for LGBTTIQ-orientated people in the Pentateuch, in the Jesus words of the Gospels, or in the Apostles' letters. The church court of the regional church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia rejected this position in an exchange of letters with the Berlin politician. In 2018 Preckwitz resigned from the Evangelical Church for political reasons, because "the EKD has developed into a kind of red-green substitute socialism in recent years".

Publications

• Serenissimus wish genius. Schillerschauspielkabinettstück in the sound and sang of the galantics . Acting text and materials. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2020. ISBN 978-3-96145-965-0 .
• Niobe. Space in a state of emergency. State action in 5 acts . Play. Arnshaugk Verlag, Neustadt an der Orla 2018. ISBN 978-3-944064-93-2 .
• Hysteria of the salvation-excited . Long poem. Special publication, Berlin 2017
• Protestant passion. KERYGMA About the Holy Spirit. SOLUS SPIRITUS oratorio at Pentecost . TWENTYSIX publishing house, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3740727864
• The flying proletarian. Translation of the long poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky . Publishing house J. Frank , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940249-62-3 .
• Challenge. Poems and essays. Poetry Edition 2000 by Allitera Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86906-588-5 .
• mad palace. Cycle of poems. hochroth Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-902871-01-5 .
• scene ● life - poems and performance. Poems. Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85165-907-8 .
• Spoken Word & Poetry Slam. Small writings on interaction aesthetics. Essays. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85165-712-8 .
• Slam poetry. Rearguard of modernity. BoD, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3831138982 .

Honourings and prices

• 2014 Dresdner Stadtschreiber , a scholarship financed by the Dresden Art & Culture Foundation of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden
• 2014 working grant for writers from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration
• 2013 city clerk grant from the city of Otterndorf
• 2012 Alfred Döblin Scholarship from the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
• 2011 Literature grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
• 1998 1st prize at the open mike of the Berlin literature workshop
• 1997 Prize of the State of Lower Saxony for literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Boris Preckwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Weblog Militancy of the Middle
• Short biography and information on the work of Boris Preckwitz at Literaturport
• Performance Poem , lecture at the Leipzig Book Fair 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blog Literaturport.de: Profile Boris Preckwitz , Memento downloaded on January 17, 2018
2. ^ Berlin-Mitte district association of the AfD. Retrieved July 21, 2017 . 
3. ^ AfD Berlin - technical committees. November 9, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2017 . 
4. ^ Rude Trip , Edition 406, Hamburg 2001, p. 122f.
5. ↑ Prize winner since 1993. Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, accessed on March 14, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Program of the 2nd Berlin International Literature Festival. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Boris Preckwitz: Slam Poetry - Rear Guard of Modernity.  Books on Demand, Hamburg 2002; Spoken Word & Poetry Slam. Small writings on interaction aesthetics.  Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2005.
8. ^ Boris Preckwitz: Poetry Slams: More and more a farce . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 14, 2016]).
9. ↑ Boris Preckwitz: Kitsch in Performance , in: EXOT. Magazine for comical literature # 18, Satyr Verlag, Berlin 2014, p. 94ff.
10. ^ Maria Selchow: The freedom of lyric poetry , in: Berliner Morgenpost. November 20, 2009, p. 18.
11. ^ Website Allitera Verlag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 14, 2016 ; accessed on March 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Burkhard Müller:  Im Herzland , in:  Süddeutsche Zeitung.  January 29, 2014.
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Boris Preckwitz: Militancy of the middle
14. ↑ Michael Bittner : Preckwitz, a bard of the new fascism. (No longer available online.) March 13, 2016, archived from the original on March 14, 2016 ; accessed on March 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ TUMULT - Myth and Thymos. The writer Boris Preckwitz in conversation. Retrieved June 11, 2019 . 
16. ^ Tomas Gärtner: Free spirit as basic equipment , in: Dresdner Latest News. June 16, 2014
17. ^ Tomas Gärtner: Preckwitz presented his translation , in: Dresdner Latest News. November 20, 2014, p. 9.
18. ^ Boris Preckwitz: Niobe. Room in a state of emergency (extract). In: Militancy of the Middle. Retrieved March 14, 2016 . 
19. ↑ TUMULT- Myth and Thymos. The writer Boris Preckwitz in conversation. Retrieved June 11, 2019 . 
20. ↑ challenge. Poems and essays. Poetry Edition 2000 published by Allitera Verlag , Munich 2013
21. ↑ TUMULT- Myth and Thymos. The writer Boris Preckwitz in conversation. Retrieved June 11, 2019 . 
22. ↑ ^{a b} queer.de: CSD participation is no problem under canon law. Berlin church rejects application from homo haters , Memento downloaded on January 15, 2018
23. ↑ TUMULT- Myth and Thymos. The writer Boris Preckwitz in conversation. Retrieved June 11, 2019 . 
24. ^ Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, reference title in the catalog
25. ↑ https://www.lyrik-kabinett.de/bibliothek/article/hysterie-der-heilserregten/
26. ↑ Working grants for writers awarded in 2014 (press release). Berlin.de, April 16, 2014, accessed on March 14, 2016 .