Christian Försch

Christian Försch (October 2011)

Christian Försch (* 1968 in Bad Kissingen ) is a German journalist , translator and writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Försch studied German , philosophy and musicology at the universities of Würzburg , Vienna and at the Free University of Berlin from 1987 . In Vienna he was particularly interested in Austrian literature and Viennese off-culture. He also studied Italian in Berlin . In 1995 he graduated with his work on the absurd at Georg Buchner from.

Since 1991 Försch has lived in Berlin and in Ferrara in northern Italy . He is married to an Italian woman and has two sons with her. From 1995 he wrote columns in the taz and wrote short stories . Försch has been working as a freelance writer since 1998, writing prose , screenplays , essays , radio plays and radio features . But as early as 1996, several radio plays and features were created for radio . In it Försch liked to portray his second home Italy , its people and landscapes. For the radio feature Motion Picture Employee No. 42874 , produced for the SFB - ORB , he and his teammates received the New York Festival Radio Award in bronze in 2000 in the category "Information / Profiles / Community Portraits".

Försch translated, among other things, the detective novels by Claudio Paglieri , books by Nino Filastò and Tommaso Pincio and Paolo Sorrentino's novel Ragazzi, what have I missed? from Italian into German.

Försch worked as an interpreter for various productions by the conductor Claudio Abbado . His biography Claudio Abbado, The Magic of Harmony, published in 2001, had to be withdrawn from sale after a court ruling in favor of the conductor. In the meantime, Försch has published three of his own crime novels in the Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag - Unter der Stadt (2001), Acqua mortale (2011) and Der Tote am Lido (2013).

Works

• Claudio Abbado the magic of harmony. Henschel Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-89487-399-X .
• Under the city. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-351-02910-1 .
• Acqua mortale. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-7466-2736-2 .
• The dead man at the Lido. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-7466-2934-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Försch in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• Author biography at Aufbau-Verlag
• Christian Försch on his book Acqua mortale on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NYF Radio Award 2000 ( memento of the original from October 10, 2013 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. 
2. ↑ Klaus Umbach : The war of the caraway splitters. In: Der Spiegel . No. 46, 2001 ( spiegel.de ).
3. ↑ Henschel Verlag examines contradictions in Abbado's statements on BuchMarkt online .