Christoph Bauer (writer)

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Christoph Bauer (born November 8, 1957 in Munich ; † June 22, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Christoph Bauer was born in Munich and moved to West Berlin with his family at the age of two. He attended the Erich Kästner School, then the Evangelical High School in the Gray Monastery . As a teenager he moved with the family again to Bavaria, he attended the Starnberg high school , but shortly afterwards returned to Berlin, where he kept himself afloat with odd jobs. After he had made up in evening classes, the high school, he studied at the Free University physics and philosophy, journalism and information sciences, specializing in the field of artificial intelligence to neural networks . He was a student trainee in the “Artificial Intelligence” research department at Siemens , as well as a lecturer at the FU and at a Siemens training facility . In addition, he worked as a taxi driver, later as a political and business consultant a. a. from 1992 to 1997 in the trust. His first novel “Westschrott” about the activities of the Treuhandanstalt remained unpublished. In 1999 he received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and in 2001 published his debut “Now we are feeding our hunger”.

Christoph Bauer died in 2017 and was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery .

Awards

Works

  • Now we satisfy our hunger. Eine recursion , Roman, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 9783100049100 .
  • Excerpts from his novel have also been published in various anthologies, including a. in a thousand and one kiss (Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2006); You alone (S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003); Similar things are not the same (Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2002).
  • In addition, short stories and prose pieces appeared in Damals, hinterm Deich (Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2002); News from home! (S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004); Sometimes a few good sentences pass by ..., (S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001).
  • Publication “Côte d'Argent, Summer 1974” in the literary magazine Schliff # 8/2008, edition text + kritik by Richard Boorberg Verlag.

Reviews

“Now we're going to satisfy our hunger” is a love story in the alternative environment of Kreuzberg. The novel describes a day in the life of taxi driver and former university lecturer Tom Weinreich, who is approached by a stranger on his daily walk through Kreuzberg cemeteries and along the Landwehr Canal. The stranger is called Mascha after a character from Chekhov's play “ The Seagull ”. Tom recognizes her as a soul mate, with whom he immediately falls in love. The taz writes: “Now we're going to quench our hunger telling the poetic, quiet and very amusing story of a lovable Kreuzberger who made himself cozy in his elegant isolation. All kinds of unsolved world puzzles haunt him, epistemological problems. But often he also makes himself beautiful: thinks up cranky sillinesses until he gets in a good mood. ” K. Hillgruber from the Berliner Tagesspiegel emphasizes the “ dreaminess and playfulness ”of the story and calls the book a “ Kreuzberger Märchen ” , a “ cozy novel for the well-meaning ” . Irmtraud Gutschke from New Germany praises the "many clever remarks in the novel - about life, art, human interaction." Furthermore: "In this book something rare in life is presented: two people who listen to each other in conversation, who really respond to each other, sensitively perceive the feelings of the other and support each other. It is as it should be normal, but as it is the exception. A path that could lead the two to paradise, where the author [...] is not allowed to arrive for reasons of art. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perlentaucher author portrait Christoph Bauer
  2. ↑ LiteraturPort author portrait of Christoph Bauer on the portal of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) and the Brandenburg Literature Office (BLB)
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel obituary from July 2, 2017
  4. ↑ Susanne Messmer: once a day head gymnastics review in the taz, March 1, 2001
  5. ^ Katrin Hillgruber: Two on the same path, review in the Tagesspiegel, April 20, 2001
  6. ↑ Irmtraud Gutschke: Life in the head review in Neues Deutschland, February 23, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 22nd June 2017
Place of death Berlin