Christoph Brumme

Christoph Brumme (also Christoph D. Brumme ; born November 11, 1962 in Wernigerode ) is a German writer and essayist.

Life

Christoph Brumme was born in Wernigerode in 1962. He completed an apprenticeship as a railroad worker, served three years with the NVA , worked at the Eisleben theater, studied philosophy and has been working as a freelance writer and essayist in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg , since 1991 . Since spring 2016 he has been living with his Ukrainian family in the eastern Ukrainian city of Poltava. From there he has recently been reporting on the elections or on politics and society in Ukraine , especially for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung

In 1994, 1997 and 2002 his novels "Nothing but That", "A Thousand Days", "Addicted to Lies" (Gatza Verlag, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, S. Fischer-Verlag), and in 2010 the novel "The Honey Badger" were published. In 2009 his travel report "On a blue elephant - 8353 kilometers by bike from Berlin to the Volga and back" was published by Dittrich Verlag. Christoph Brumme has now cycled from Berlin to the Volga and back six times - a total of more than 40,000 kilometers. His novels "Addicted to Lies" and "No" ("Nothing but that") were produced as radio plays by the MDR with Julia Jäger, Jan Josef Liefers and Corinna Harfouch.

He has written social reports, political commentaries and essays on literature, in particular on Franz Kafka , William Faulkner , Isaak Babel and Dostoyevsky . His articles appear in akzente , Berliner Zeitung , the Freitag and Frankfurter Rundschau , portraits and interviews etc. a. in Moscow German newspaper , new German literature , in the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk . In his blog he publishes essays critical of time, especially on Eastern Europe, comments on media coverage, the state of the nation (and his own), philosophizes on literature, economics and the meaning of life.

He is known for his high level of language economy storytelling and his precise talent for observation. The almost protocol-like narration of key moments is characteristic of his novels. The result is a seemingly objective storytelling, which, however, creates intense feelings in the reader precisely because of the precision of the language.

Awards

• 1995: Alfred Döblin grant
• 1997: Literature scholarship Kulturfonds Berlin
• 1998: Literature grant Free State of Bavaria, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia Bamberg
• 1996, 1999, 2002: Working grants from the German Literature Fund
• 2008: Literature grant from the Berlin Senate

Works

• 1994: Nothing but that. Gatza, Berlin, ISBN 3-928262-18-1 .
• 1994/2008: No. Dittrich, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937717-23-4 (WG 1 112). As an audio book with Corinna Harfouch , directed by the author.
• 1997: a thousand days. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 3-462-02631-3 .
• 2002: Addicted to lies. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 3-462-03131-7 . In 2004 MDR FIGARO produced an adaptation by Leonhard Koppelmann under the direction of the same with Julia Jäger and Jan Josef Liefers as a radio play.
• 2009: On a blue elephant. Dittrich, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937717-32-6 .
• 2010: The honey badger. Dittrich, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937717-50-0 .
• 2014: 111 reasons to love cycling. About the intoxication of speed, the secret of slowness and the knowledge that happiness has two wheels. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86265-360-7 .
• 2014: Greetings from Friedrich Nietzsche. CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-66759-6 .
• 2014: 111 reasons to love chess. A tribute to the royal game. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86265-433-8 .

Radio plays

• Addicted to Lies (MDR 2004, Director: Leonhard Koppelmann )

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Brumme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christoph Brumme's blog