Christopher Kloeble

Christopher Kloeble, German-Israeli Literature Days 2012

Christopher Kloeble (born July 3, 1982 in Munich ) is a German writer and screenwriter.

Life

Christopher Kloeble at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2010

Kloeble is the son of the actor, screenwriter and producer Til Erwig , grew up in Königsdorf in Upper Bavaria , attended high school in Bad Tölz and was a member of the Tölzer boys' choir . As a schoolboy he took part in the manuscript course at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Until 2007 Kloeble studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Kloeble publishes in literary magazines and develops materials for film and television productions. In June 2010 he read at the 34th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition . On December 2, 2011, BR-alpha broadcast its own production Inklusion - together differently , for which Kloeble wrote his first script (director: Marc-Andreas Borchert). The author lives in New Delhi and Berlin .

reception

"Among loners"

Kloeble's debut novel Unter Einzelgänger explores the structure of a family in the form of a framework and internal narrative : “The worlds of the characters in the novel and the novel in the novel interpenetrate”, wrote Walter Hinck and Arnold Stadler in their vote for the Jürgen Ponto Foundation's literary advancement award . If the FAZ saw “a refined construction” in these reflections with a changing perspective, reviewer Volker Weidermann also advised “urgently [...] to escape from this book” in the same newspaper. The Süddeutsche Zeitung found that the author "clearly wanted too much". Zeit compared the dramatic interplay of the individual characters with a play.

Quote

“The story goes through the fall of the Berlin Wall as a leitmotif, without turning“ Among Loners ”into a historical or political novel. The author's language is that of today's young generation. How laconic and vividly and with what hardly noticeable irony the author can tell is exemplified by the end of the novel, the report on the successive visits of family members to the mother's grave. "

- Walter Hinck, Arnold Stadler

"When there is a knock"

Judith Leister compared the eleven stories when it knocks in the FAZ on October 27, 2009 with Zoë Jenny's novels and counted Kloeble to the “ Internship Generation ”.

"Usually everything very quickly"

His novel Mostly everything very quickly , published in 2012, is a family story that runs through the 20th century. Albert, who finally wants to know who his mother is after graduating from high school, goes to his mentally retarded father, who lives in a sleepy Bavarian town and only has a few months to live. He comes across a taboo. “The author skillfully juggles language, style, genres and narrative perspectives. It is a book about searching and finding, about secrets that have been kept for years, about the truth, about family and about love, ”wrote Karoline Pilcz in Buchkultur . "The novel would have done well with some streamlining," said the reviewer for Neues Deutschland , but found "drastic, surreal scenarios that stay in the memory".

Publications

• Hitler on the hunt. In: Clams . Annual journal for literature and graphics. Vol. 44. Viersen 2004, ISSN  0085-3593
• Among loners. Novel. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-24665-1
• The eternal three. In: Stories + Courts . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg and Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-69-6
• Miami, nuh! Hodemacher, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-941938-00-7
• 13 24 51. In: Gothic. dark stories . Beltz et al. Gelberg, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3407741202
• Twenty seconds of math. In: Time of Jokes . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3898126014
• When there is a knock. Stories. dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24720-7
• Mostly everything very quickly. Novel. dtv, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-24901-0
• The immortal family of salt. Novel. dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28092-1
• Home made in India. A love story between Delhi and Berlin dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-26172-2
• The museum of the world. Novel. dtv, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3423282185

Scholarships, awards and prizes (selection)

• 2005: Weekend of the young dramatists at the Münchner Kammerspiele
• 2006: Radio play workshop "Ganz Ohr" of the German Literature Fund and the NDR
• 2006: Authors' workshop days of the Vienna Burgtheater and the German Literature Fund
• 2007/2008: Scholarship from the script funding of Bavarian TV
• 2008: Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for among loners
• 2009: Authors' workshop of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• 2010: Residence Scholarship International Writing Program University of Iowa (USA)
• 2010: Residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2010: Invitation to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2011: Residence grant at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
• 2011: Writer in residence Cambridge University (UK)
• 2012: Nomination for the script inclusion for the Prix ​​Europa 2012; the film was also awarded the ABU Prize for “Best TV Drama”.
• 2012: New York Scholarship from the German Literature Fund and NYU
• 2013: artist residency at the Goethe-Institut Bangalore

literature

• Thomas Schmidt: Portrait: Christopher Kloeble. Of death and hope. In: Münchner Merkur , January 30, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Christopher Kloeble  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christopher Kloeble in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Christopher Kloeble in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Christopher Kloeble at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christopher Kloeble at perlentaucher.de
• Christopher Kloeble's website
• Christopher Kloeble in the poet shop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.br.de ( Memento from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Jürgen Ponto Foundation [1] , read on July 10, 2009
3. ^ FAZ edition of December 11, 2008
4. ↑ Volker Weidermann: The German wool mouse massacre. In: FAZ.net . October 5, 2008, accessed December 17, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 8, 2008
6. ↑ Carolin Ströbele: Death suits him well . In: Zeit online from October 16, 2008, read on July 10, 2009
7. ^ Walter Hink and Arnold Stadler: Votum Christopher Kloeble for the literature prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation [2] , read on July 10, 2009
8. ↑ Karoline Pilcz: Antihero in search. In: Buchkultur , Vienna, issue 142, June / July 2012
9. ↑ Karin Klis: Incest and death by fire in Upper Bavaria. In: New Germany . Supplement to the Leipzig Book Fair , March 15-18, 2012.