Clemens J. Setz

Clemens J. Setz (2019)

Clemens Johann Setz (born November 15, 1982 in Graz , Styria ), known as Clemens J. Setz , is an Austrian writer and translator .

Life

Setz was born in 1982 in Graz, where he still lives today. In 2001 he began teaching mathematics and German studies at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, which he did not graduate.

In addition to his studies, Setz worked as a translator and published poems and stories in magazines and anthologies. He is a founding member of the platform literature group .

In his youth, Clemens Setz was hardly interested in literature. The initial spark for his career as an author was the writer Ernst Jandl . In 2007, Setz's debut novel Sons and Planets was published , which was shortlisted for the aspekte literature award . In 2008 he was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , where he won the Ernst Willner Prize for his novella Die Waage .

In 2009 his second novel Die Frequenzen was nominated for the German Book Prize. Setz was a guest at the Berlin International Literature Festival in 2010 . In 2011, he received the Leipzig Book Fair prize in the field of fiction for his volume of short stories, Die Liebe zu Zeit des Mahlstädter Kind . The jury's justification stated: "Deceiving neighbors, beating orgies of art, crazy machines - these stories lure the reader into a labyrinth of tenderness, violence, love and meanness."

Since 2011 he has been writing the series No longer available for the literary magazine Volltext about out of print works from his point of view of important writers. His novel Indigo , published in 2012, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. In his volume of poems, Die Vogelstraußtrompete , Clemens J. Setz sends his readers on a poetic foray through the diverse realities of the present, from comic strips to science, quoting verbatim from the English Wikipedia article Reality Checkpoint .

The more than 1000 page long novel The Hour Between Woman and Guitar , published in 2015, was also nominated for the German Book Prize.

The premiere of the play Frequenzen (based on the novel by Clemens Setz) took place on March 12, 2016, directed by Alexander Eisenach at the Schauspielhaus Graz . In 2018 his play Erinnya , directed by Claudia Bossard, premiered there. His play The Deviations was invited to the Mülheim Theater Days 2019 .

In an interview with Ijoma Mangold in 2016, Setz spoke about both his non-verbal acoustic synesthesia and his previous panic attacks , which were caused by an esophageal spasm caused by gastritis , not psychological causes.

In 2020 he published the volume The Bees and the Invisible , in which he deals with planned languages . Kolja Reichert attested the book in time a "liberating effect" because it is "existentially" Wherefore, go, like a life in another translated could be: the reader learn that the world "as a non-hierarchical collection view worthy for himself Details" to see .

The radio play Whispering in Standing Trains, based on the play of the same name by Clemens J. Setz, was voted radio play of the month by the German Academy of Performing Arts in June 2021 .

Works (selection)

Autograph

As an author

• Sons and planets. Novel. Residenz, St. Pölten 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-1484-1 ; btb, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-73902-8 .
• The frequencies. Novel. Residenz, St. Pölten 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1515-2 ; btb, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-74111-3 .
• Love at the time of the Mahlstadt child. Stories. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42221-2 ; Paperback, ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-46335-2 .
• Time women . (= Better reading . No. 112). SuKuLTuR , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941592-34-6 .
• Indigo . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42324-0 .
• The ostrich trumpet. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42416-2 .
• Till Eulenspiegel - Thirty pranks and fools. Retelling, with illustrations by Philip Waechter . Insel, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-20014-7 .
• Happy as lead in grain. Retelling. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-46587-5 .
• The hour between woman and guitar. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42495-7 .
• Linger under a suspended load. Tuebingen Poetics Lecturer 2015 (together with Kathrin Passig ). Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2016, ISBN 978-3-89929-336-4 .
• Bot: conversation without an author. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42786-6 .
• A master of the old world language. William Auld (= dialogue ). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-88423-599-7 (speech in the Lyrik Kabinett Munich).
• The deviations. Play, world premiere Schauspiel Stuttgart , season 2018/19
• The consolation of well-rounded things. Stories. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42852-8 .
• The bees and the invisible. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3518429655 .
• Whispers on a standing train. Play, Schauspielhaus Graz / Münchner Kammerspiele , season 2020/21

As translator

• John Leake: The Man from Purgatory . The double life of Jack Unterweger . Residenz, St. Pölten 2008, ISBN 978-3-7017-3101-5 (English: Entering Hades . Translated by Clemens J. Setz, also: Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-43473-8 ).
• Edward Gorey : Der Andere Zoo, Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015 (2nd edition: 2019), ISBN 978-3-940357-52-6 (English: The Utter Zoo . Translated by Clemens J. Setz)
• Edward Gorey: The Hapless Child , Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-940357-67-0 (English: The Hapless Child . Translated by Clemens J. Setz)
• Edward Gorey: Der Osbick-Vogel, Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2020, ISBN 978-3-940357-79-3 (English: The Osbick Bird . Translated by Clemens J. Setz)
• Scott McClanahan : Sarah, ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-7472-0107-7

Filmography

• 2018: Zauberer (screenplay, together with Sebastian Brauneis and Nicholas Ofczarek)

Awards

• 2007: Author's premium from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (2007) for Sons and Planets
• 2008: Austrian State Scholarship
• 2008: Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
• 2008: Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture for a "particularly successful literary debut"
• 2008: Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition for Die Waage
• 2010: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen for Die Frequenzen
• 2011: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for Love at the Time of the Mahlstadt Child (Category: Fiction )
• 2010: Outstanding Artist Award for Literature from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
• 2013: Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft
• 2015: Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for The Hour Between Woman and Guitar
• 2016: Professor of Poetics at the University of Bamberg
• 2017: Literature Prize of the State of Styria
• 2018: Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award - Special Jury Award for Magicians
• 2018: Merck Kakehashi Literature Prize from the technology company Merck and the Goethe Institute Tokyo
• 2019: Berlin Literature Prize
• 2020: Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize
• 2020: Kleist Prize
• 2021: Georg Büchner Prize

Web links

Commons : Clemens J. Setz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Clemens J. Setz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Clemens J. Setz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and information on the work of Clemens Setz at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Clemens J. Setz at perlentaucher.de
• Clemens J. Set on volltext.net
• Clemens J. Setz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Daniela Strigl : Screwing on the world machine ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: literary magazine Volltext , March 29, 2011 (portrait)
• Art. Clemens J. Setz. In: Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature (KLG)
• So to speak !: Clemens J. Setz on artificial languages ​​and language artists , apple podcast

literature

• Iris Hermann, Nico Prelog (ed.): “There are things that don't exist.” On telling the unreal in the work of Clemens J. Setz . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020 (= literature and present. 4.), ISBN 978-3-8260-7116-4 .
• Christian Neuhuber: Authorship, auto (r) fiction and self-archiving in Clemens J. Setz's narrative work. In: Archives in / from literature. Interplay between two media. Edited by Klaus Kastberger and Christian Neuhuber with the collaboration of Lisa Erlenbusch. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2021 (= literature and archive. 5.), ISBN 978-3-11-074227-5 , pp. 177-188.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clemens J. Setz: "Only the Agent" of his books ( Memento from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: kleinezeitung.at , accessed on July 18, 2016.
2. ↑ Portrait of the author. In: suhrkamp.de , accessed on July 18, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Clemens Setz: "Maybe it's time for something completely different!" Clemens Setz in an interview with Suhrkamps-Verlag. Published on June 17, 2016 ( online; 6:16 min ; 5:55 min: "... maybe tweets").
4. ↑ Quotation from publisher information. In: suhrkamp.de, accessed on July 19, 2016.
5. ↑ Clemens J. Setz: Winner in the fiction category 2011 (PDF; 25 kB). In: preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de, accessed on July 19, 2016 (statement of the jury chaired by Verena Auffermann ).
6. ↑ Align, blacken, expose. No longer available! - A series by Clemens Setz about out of print works by important authors. Part 1: Ivy Compton-Burnett. ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Volltext . July 26, 2011, accessed July 18, 2016.
7. ↑ INDIGO. How a book is made - behind the scenes at INDOGO. In: indigo.suhrkamp.de, accessed on July 18, 2016.
8. ↑ Herbert Wiesner: That rhymes with the Internet. Shaking alarm of reality: Vibrant poems by the born narrator Clemens J. Setz. In: The world . May 17, 2014, accessed May 19, 2014 . 
9. ↑ "Erinnya" by Clemens J. Setz in Graz: The goddess of revenge technology. In: tt.com , November 16, 2018, accessed November 18, 2018.
10. ↑ ZEIT-MAGAZIN , No. 5, January 28, 2016, section: That was my rescue, ISSN  2190-9903 , p. 46, accessed on February 4, 2016.
11. ↑ Kolja Reichert: Every crisis needs a language. In: Die Zeit from January 7, 2021, p. 47.
12. ^ "Whispering in a standing train": German radio play of the month comes from Graz. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . July 6, 2021, accessed July 7, 2021 . 
13. ↑ Unbearable familiarity. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . October 7, 2012, p. 45 ( online; with registration), accessed on July 18, 2016.
14. ↑ (de) Wolfgang Popp, Clemens Setz and the Limits of Language ( Memento from October 31, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) , ORF.at
15. ↑ Further information: John Leake. Entering Hades: The double life of a serial killer. In: Residenz Verlag. (English, brief description). 
16. ↑ Styrian Literature Prize goes to Clemens Setz. In: Styria. orf.at , March 16, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2017.
17. ↑ Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards 2018. ( Memento from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: diagonale.at, accessed on March 16, 2018.
18. ↑ "Big in Japan" - Merck Kakehashi Prize for author Clemens Setz. In: nachtkritik.de , November 16, 2018, accessed on November 18, 2018.
19. ↑ Clemens J. Setz receives the Berlin Literature Prize 2019. In: fu-berlin.de, October 5, 2018, accessed on November 18, 2018.
20. ↑ nn: Wassermann Prize - Fürth honors Clemens J. Setz. In: Fürther Nachrichten of January 24, 2020 (print edition)
21. ↑ 2020 Kleist Prize to Clemens J. Setz , nachtkritik.de , published and accessed on March 30, 2020
22. ^ Writer: Georg Büchner Prize 2021 goes to Clemens J. Setz. In: The time . July 20, 2021, accessed July 20, 2021 .