Christoph Peters

This article deals with the German writer. For similarly named personalities see Christoph Peter .

Christoph Peters (2017)

Christoph Peters (born October 11, 1966 in Kalkar ) is a German writer .

Life

Christoph Peters was a student at the Catholic boarding high school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck from 1977 to 1986 , where Franz Joseph van der Grinten was one of his teachers. Peters then studied painting from 1988 to 1994 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe , among others with Horst Egon Kalinowski and Günter Neusel , most recently as a master student of Meuser . From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a passenger controller at Frankfurt Rhein-Main Airport.

Peters was based in Mainz until 2000 and has lived in Berlin ever since . He has a daughter (* 2003) with his wife, the writer Veronika Peters . His novel Das Tuch aus Nacht (2003) has been translated into American and Chinese.

The setting of his novel Wir in Kahlenbeck (2012) is a Catholic boarding school for boys near the border with the Netherlands.

Peters is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

• 1998 Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis
• 1999 Aspect Literature Prize
• 1999 Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld
• 2000 Georg K. Glaser Prize
• 2001 Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Literature
• 2004 Düsseldorf Literature Prize
• 2004 The annual best foreign novels, 21st Century Award, Best German novel of 2003, issued by People's Literature Publishing House, Foreign Literature Learned Society, German Literature Study Society, China for Das Tuch aus Nacht
• 2004 Poetics lecturer at the Academy of Sciences and Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• 2005 Bayern 2 - Wortspiele Prize
• 2006 Museum clerk at the Hetjens Museum / German Ceramics Museum in Düsseldorf
• 2008 Tuebingen poetics lectureship together with Kiran Nagarkar
• 2009 Rheingau Literature Prize , Mitsukos Restaurant
• 2011 Comburg Literature Scholarship Schwäbisch Hall
• 2012 Election of Wir in Kahlenbeck in the longlist for the German Book Prize
• 2014 Museum writer Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré collection
• 2014 Poetics lecturer at the University of Paderborn .
• 2015 scholarship from the Tarabya Culture Academy , Istanbul .
• 2016 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg .
• 2017 Thomas Kling Poetics Lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
• 2018 Wolfgang Koeppen Prize from the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald.

Works

• Heinrich Grewent's work and love. Narrative. Dreieck-Verlag, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-930559-26-9 .
• City-Country-River. Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-627-00066-8 .
• Come and go, sometimes stay. 14 stories. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-627-00085-4 .
• The cloth of night. Novel. btb, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-75090-3 . Engl .: The fabric of night , Nan A. Talese - Doubleday, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-51447-7 .
• Heinrich Grewent's work and love. Narrative. Revised new edition. btb, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-75141-1 .
• A room in the House of War. Novel. btb, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-75129-2 .
• Museum clerk 1. Hetjens Museum. In possession of the beautiful. Essay. XIM Virgenes publishing house, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-934268-46-3 .
• Mitsuko's restaurant. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87273-5 .
• Dream images of writing. Tübingen Poetics Lecturer 2008 (together with Kiran Nagarkar ), Eds. Dorothee Kimmich and Philipp Ostrowicz. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2009.
• Minga enchants the world. Children's book. with pictures by Matthias Beckmann , Luchterhand 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87325-1 .
• Japan begins at the Baltic Sea - Jan Kollwitz's ceramics . With photos by Götz Wrage. Wachholtz 2010, ISBN 978-3-529-02763-5 .
• Sven Hofestedt is looking for money for enlightenment. Stories. Luchterhand, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87337-4 .
• The cat waves to the customs officer. Essay. SuKuLTuR , Berlin 2010 (= “ Beautiful Reading ” No. 101), ISBN 978-3-941592-21-6 .
• We in Kahlenbeck. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87321-3 .
• Registered mail record. with drawings by Matthias Beckmann. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-069-9 .
• Mr. Yamashiro prefers potatoes. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87411-1 .
• Museum clerk NRW 6, Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré collection. Essay. XIM Virgenes publishing house, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-944011-26-4 .
• The arm of the octopus. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87320-6 .
• The dear countries. Poems. With screen prints by Matthias Beckmann. edition wasser im turm, Berlin 2015.
• That wonderful bitterness - living with tea. , with drawings by Matthias Beckmann. Arche, Zurich - Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7160-2756-1 .
• Selfie with Sheikh. Stories. Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87540-8 .
• The year of the cat. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87476-0 .

literature

• Ege, Müzeyyen / Spaney, Gerhard: Journey into the dark. A second look at Istanbul in Christoph Peters' novel "The Cloth from Night" , in: Beck, Sandra / Özbek-Schneider, Katrin: Certainty and Doubt: Intercultural Studies on Criminal Literary Narration pp. 227–246, Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8498-1059-7
• Elnaggar, Diaa: Metaphor of space in Christoph Peters' novel “A room in the house of war” , in: Kairoer Germanistische Studien Vol. 19, Cairo 2010
• König, Michael: Poetics of Terror - You can't even imagine what goes on in such a young man - Christoph Peters '' A room in the house of war '' demonstrates the impossibility of understanding the homegrown terrorist. , Pp. 142-182, transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2987-3
• Langenhorst, Georg : Between Catholicism, Islam and Buddhism. Christoph Peters' literary world , in: Voices of Time, Issue 1, January 2013, Verlag Herder Freiburg, ISSN  0039-1492
• Stiepel, Anna: "Prison-Paradise"? The boarding school as a development area in German-language novels after 1968 , Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8288-3704-1
• Takeda, Arata : Incorporated Cultural Conflicts. Interaction of cultures in the terrorist's body using the example of Christoph Peters' Ein Zimmer im Haus des Krieg (2006). In: Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2012), pp. 25–38.
• Waldow, Stephanie: Writing as an encounter with the other. 3.1. Strangeness as Experience, Christoph Peters A Room in the House of War & Mitsukos Restaurant pp. 211–238 , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5245-0
• Winkels, Hubert : Good Signs - German Literature 1995-2005 , At the Beard of the Prophet - Christoph Peters' novel Das "Tuch aus Nacht" , pp. 304-310, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03466-9
• Winkels, Hubert : Can you love books , Christoph Peters: Mitsukos Restaurant , pp. 344–347, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04237-5

Web links

Commons : Christoph Peters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Christoph Peters' blog Tagwerk
• Literature by and about Christoph Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christoph Peters at perlentaucher.de
• Berlin essay by Christoph and Veronika Peters
• Short biography and information on the work of Christoph Peters at Literaturport
• Excerpts from A Room in the House of War and Mitsuko's Restaurant read by Peters
• Christoph Peters in an interview about locations in his work
• Readings with Christoph Peters to listen to and download on Lesungen.net
• Christoph Peters on the Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anyone who knows what's going on doesn't give a damn about understanding in FAZ on May 28, 2014, page 12
2. ↑ http://editionwasserimturmberlin.blogspot.de/2015/10/die-lieben-lande.html