Christoph Leuchter

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Christoph Leuchter

Christoph Leuchter (* 1968 ) is a German writer, musician and university lecturer.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1987, Christoph Leuchter first studied piano and musicology in Cologne , then from 1989 to 1992 at the University of Bonn and from 1992 to 1996 at the RWTH Aachen University in the subjects of German and history . He wrote his master's thesis on Max Frisch on the subject: Playing with the game. Investigations into Max Frisch's biography .

Leuchter taught "Older German Literature" from 1996 to 2004 at the German Institute of RWTH Aachen University. In 2003 he was there with the dissertation Poetry in the improper. Doctorate on the metaphors and poetics of Heinrich von Morungen on Middle High German Minnesang.

After a traineeship from 2000 to 2001 in the editing department of Siedler Verlag , Berlin, Christoph Leuchter worked as a freelance editor and copywriter. In 2002 he founded the New Choir Würselen, with which he performed numerous concerts and produced four CDs. To this day he is its musical director. From 2002 to 2016 he worked as a church musician for the parish St. Hermann-Josef in Stolberg (Rhld.) . In 2012, Christoph Leuchter founded the Center for Creative Writing at RWTH Aachen University, which was institutionalized as the RWTH Writing Center in 2016.

In 2012 and 2013, the two novels Last Act and Amelie's Farewells - a story of lies were published by Steidl Verlag , Göttingen. In 2010 Christoph Leuchter published the music album Where you are with 13 songs / chansons, in 2019 the album Steps with 14 miniatures for clarinet, cello, piano and bass. For his work he has received grants from the Literary Colloquium Berlin , the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW and the Kunststiftung NRW . Christoph Leuchter heads the RWTH Aachen Writing Center. There he mainly teaches creative writing, journalism and PR & communication.

Publications (selection)

  • Steps | Steps. 14 miniatures for piano, clarinet, cello and bass : ncw-records 2019.
  • Amelie's farewells. A story of lies , novel, Göttingen: Steidl 2013.
  • Last act , novel, Göttingen: Steidl 2012.
  • Better questions than simple answers. A classic even during his lifetime: Max Frisch , in: Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten , May 7, 2011.
  • Where are you. 13 songs : ncw records 2010.
  • Love and death in the High Fens. The “Cross of the Fiancee” and the drama by Marie Solheid and François Reiff in 1871 . Searching for traces in the icy November wind, in: Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten (magazine), November 14, 2009.
  • Poetry in the improper. On Heinrich von Morungen's metaphor and poetics , Frankfurt am Main: Lang 2003.
  • With icy eyes n, in: Language in the technical age 160 (2001), pp. 429-434.

Awards / grants

  • Grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW 2017
  • Scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW 2015
  • Scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012
  • Final nomination for the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize / HarbourFront Hamburg 2012
  • Scholarship from the Berlin Senate in 2002
  • Scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2002
  • Scholarship from the Literary Colloquium Berlin / Prosawerkstatt 2001

Literature festivals / reading series

Press coverage (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leuchter, Christoph, 1968: Poetry in the improper: on the metaphor and poetics of Heinrich von Morungen . P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, OCLC 52430515 .
  2. ↑ Homepage New Choir Würselen
  3. ^ New choir Würselen: About us. April 12, 2019, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Leuchter, Christoph, 1968: Last act: Roman . 1st edition Steidl, Göttingen 2012, OCLC 793975001 .
  5. ^ A b Leuchter, Christoph, 1968: Amelies Abschiede: a story of lies: a novel . 1st edition. Goettingen, OCLC 858804888 .
  6. ↑ a b Christoph Leuchter: Biography. December 12, 2019, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Working grants for authors | The state portal Wir in NRW . September 22, 2017, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  8. ^ Leuchter, Christoph - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Language Center of the RWTH Aachen University - German. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b ncw records. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Crossover / Classic. In: Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Better questions than simple answers. In: Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Leuchter, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, musician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen