Carsten Otte

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Carsten Otte (* 1972 in Bad Godesberg ) is a German writer and radio presenter .

Life

Carsten Otte studied philosophy in Bonn and Berlin and wrote numerous reports , feature articles and glosses .

Since 1999 he has been working as an author, editor and presenter for ARD radio , a. a. at SWR2 Forum and NDR Kultur Journal. Among other things, he presents the Sunday radio section "SWR2 Matinee". The criticism he expressed in 2017 of cosplay , which was carried out on the occasion of a manga convention taking place parallel to the Leipzig Book Fair , was the subject of a controversy about the coexistence of literary business and popular culture.

Otte's literary work was funded in many ways, for example by the grant of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and by the state of Schleswig-Holstein in the Künstlerhaus Eckernförde .

Carsten Otte is a regular contributor to the daily newspapers Junge Welt and taz and has also written for the Berliner Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Jungle World , Konkret , Die Welt am Sonntag and Die Zeit .

Works

Single track
  • Pig wasteland . Novel. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Gentle illusions . Novel. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Goodbye car: a life without a driver's license . Non-fiction. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2009.
  • Why us . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86351-078-7 .
  • The gastrosexual man: Cooking as a passion . Non-fiction. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt on 2014.
Single publication
  • The coffee house artist . In: Barren places . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003.
  • The diet of the nudists . In: Chief Own Hearth , Edition Vincent Klink, Stuttgart 2007.
  • Show me your weapons , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 2, 2007.
  • Vengeance is alcohol-free , narration, in: Beer . Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • All inclusive , in: Edit. Paper for new texts , Leipzig 2008.
  • Paradise without sun , calendar history, in: Unverhofftes Wiedersehen, A homage to Johann Peter Hebel, Verlag Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2010.
Radio feature (selection)
  • My generation is not a generation . SWR 2000.
  • Gambia under the salad bowl moon . SWR 2000.
  • The fascinating thing about the monstrous . SWR and NDR 2000.
  • Bottom line, that wasn't a commercial one . SWR 2001.
  • In the intoxication of the vertical . SWR 2006.
  • Statistics help! SWR 2011.
  • How we celebrate . SWR 2011.
  • We gastrosexuals . WDR and SWR 2013.

criticism

Pig wasteland

In the author's debut volume, which deals with East-West sensitivities in the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the hero of the novel pays homage to “a morbid Ostalgie with the cynical weapons of the West,” according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . As a parasite, this neo-romantic good-for-nothing nestles in a dilapidated old apartment in order to draw new spirits from the 'ghost world' of the former GDR. " Unfortunately - and this brings the reviewer to criticism - Kuballa is not only a badly crazy protagonist, but also the narrator of his story, and as such unsuitable: the surveillance logs of himself and others make reading it a tedious affair. The German Press Agency writes on the day of publication: “In the search for and search for the past, a brilliant balancing act.” The Leipziger Volkszeitung sees a “turnaround novel that stands out from the usual reports and confessions about the difficulties of growing together East and West West.".

Gentle illusions

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Otte's second novel, Gentle Illusions , presents a “web-like interweaving” of CVs that are located in Baden-Baden : “What emerges in this way is a nasty, sarcastic, but sometimes also moving picture of a spa town that always wants to shine more than it is, and behind its shiny surface there are many abysses. Baden-Baden also repeatedly turns into the image of the whole country, on which the future of an aging, child-hostile society with its strong contrasts between rich and poor is concentrated like in a burning mirror. ”The reviewer of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is, however, annoyed by the fact that the author loads his story with too many topics and problems. The Hamburger Abendblatt believes it has a “merciless view of the bourgeoisie and pseudo-bohemian”. The reviewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung had a great time reading it. In his eyes, the author succeeds wonderfully in capturing the spa town atmosphere of Baden-Baden. However, the author sometimes seems to apply too thick to it.

Goodbye car

According to taz , Otte wrote “ Goodbye Auto ”, “a swan song for the automobile that actually deserves a scrapping bonus.” The NDR Kultur radio program explains: “In 60 amusing and self-deprecating memories, Carsten Otte tells of his life without a driver's license; of angry parking lot hooligans, speechless car salespeople and seductive holiday flirtations - who finally got him to get behind the wheel for once in a lifetime. At the same time, Otte also sharpens the eye for the bizarre things of the automotive world: such as abandoned parking garage deserts or oversized off-road vehicles that are supposed to be given the appearance of living up to their name with mud from the spray can. It's a car biography in which the car still plays an important role - at no point does it have an instructive effect, but rather admits the desire to drive. ”The Saarbrücker Zeitung asks:“ Is Otte a fanatic? Definitely not. Just someone who thinks about the car phenomenon and its impact on life and the environment. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.swr.de/swr2/matinee
  2. ↑ "No place for naked rabbits" , SWR2, March 27, 2017
  3. ^ "Leipzig Book Fair keeps to cosplayers" ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MDR, March 29, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunststiftung.de
  5. ↑ http://www.otte1.org/2013/08/carsten-otte-sprotte-sprech/
  6. ↑ http://swrmediathek.de/player.htm?show=a1a0df00-ffab-11e0-b216-0026b975f2e6
  7. ↑ http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendung/leben/wie-fiegen-wir/-/id=660174/nid=660174/did=7679966/1k1oikt/
  8. ↑ Cooking for the brisk threesome on the tongue ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wdr3.de of April 25, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr3.de
  9. ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/carsten-otte/schweineoede.html
  10. ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/carsten-otte/sanfte-illusionen.html
personal data
SURNAME Otte, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn