Christopher Ecker

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Christopher Oliver Ecker (born October 28, 1967 in Saarbrücken ) is a German writer and literary critic .

life and work

Christopher Ecker studied German and philosophy in Saarbrücken and Kiel . In addition to his work as a writer, translator and literary critic (including for the FAZ , Saarbrücker and Berliner Zeitung, as well as for Saarland , South German and Austrian broadcasters ), he teaches German and philosophy at the Heinrich Heine School in Heikendorf near Kiel . Ecker's most successful book is the thousand-page novel “Fahlmann”, published in 2012, which the critic Denis Scheck described as “one of the great reading adventures of contemporary German literature”. In 2015, Ecker was awarded the Friedrich Hebbel Prize for his previous literary work, in particular his novel “Fahlmann”. According to the jury, the novel “Fahlmann” is “one of the most excessive reading adventures that contemporary German literature has to offer. In Ecker's novel, in which the son of a funeral director embarks on the stony path of a career as a writer, bizarre fantasy and a realism saturated with puns and sharp observation of details form a surprising connection time and again. "

In 2018 Ecker received the Saarland Art Prize . The jury praised Ecker as a writer who "in over two decades with great literary seriousness created a work based on the experience of his Saarland origins". Ecker has "a broad repertoire of different types of text". His “handling of language and form, as playful as it is confident, paired with his ingenuity”, makes his work a “special reading experience”. Minister of Culture Ulrich Commerçon called Ecker a "tireless contemporary narrator, whose novels wonderfully combine fantasy and philosophical worldview while not forgetting wit and a sense of the realistic."

Publications

Single track

As editor and translator

Audio book

Secondary literature

  • Alban Nikolai Herbst : Fahlmann's Worlds. The writer Christopher Ecker , one-hour poetic radio piece, WDR3, May 1, 2014.
  • Alban Nikolai Herbst: Laudatory speech for Christopher Ecker on the award of the Friedrich Hebbel Prize 2015 , March 27, 2015.
  • Toke Hoffmeister: The influences of the historical avant-garde on contemporary literature: Comparison of works by Hugo Ball with works by Christopher Eckers , Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-656-44154-0
  • Kai U. Jürgens : A feeling of being lost. The translator Christopher Ecker on the death of Thomas M. Disch , in: Kurt S. Denkena (Ed.), SF-Notizen 650, Bremen 2008, pp. 33–39.
  • Kai U. Jürgens: Declaration of love to a target: Materials for Christopher Ecker's novel »Fahlmann« , Halle 2012. ISBN 978-3-89812-878-0
  • Franz Rottensteiner : The last offense . In: Quarber Mercury . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy , vol. 115, pp. 222–224, 2014. ISBN 978-3-934273-94-8
  • Hartmut Kasper : Fahlmann , in: The Science Fiction Year 2012 , edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Sascha Mamczak and Sebastian Pirling, Heyne, Munich 2012, pp. 344–351. ISBN 978-3-453-52972-4

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/blogs/der-scheck-check/aktuelle-buch-kritiken-fc-delius-christopher-ecker-081534400.html
  2. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=104432412929127&story_fbid=856015837770777
  3. https://www.sr.de/sr/sr2/themen/kultur/20180508_kunstpreis_saarland_2018_christopher_ecker100.html
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  5. STRECKENLÆUFER No. 23 , PoCul Verlag, Saarbrücken 2005
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  8. publisher: Landesportal Schleswig-Holstein - Contents - Scholarships. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .