Daniel Kehlmann

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Daniel Kehlmann at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Daniel Kehlmann (born January 13, 1975 in Munich ) is a German - Austrian writer . He lives in New York and Berlin .

Life

Daniel Kehlmann is the son of the Austrian director Michael Kehlmann and the German actress Dagmar Mettler . His grandfather was the expressionist writer Eduard Kehlmann , who had lived in Vienna. The family moved there in 1981 because his father, who was born in Vienna, commuted between Vienna and Germany for work until he moved. In Vienna, Kehlmann graduated from the Kollegium Kalksburg , then studied philosophy and German . His fifth book Ich und Kaminski was an international success in 2003 . His novel Die Vermessung der Welt , published in 2005 , became one of the greatest successes of German post-war literature .

In 2001, Kehlmann was visiting professor for poetics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz ; in the winter semester 2005/06 he held the poetics lectureship at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences and in the winter semester 2006/07 he was the poetics lecturer at the University of Göttingen . Together with Jonathan Franzen and Adam Haslett , Daniel Kehlmann was a guest of the Tübingen Poetics Lecturer 2010. In December 2010 he was a so-called literator lecturer for world literature at the IK Morphomata of the University of Cologne . He is visiting professor at the German Department at New York University . In the summer semester of 2014, he gave the Frankfurt poetics lectures at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Daniel Kehlmann is a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg and the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Kehlmann is the father of a son born in 2009.

Literary work

Daniel Kehlmann at the Leipzig Book Fair (2009)

“A narrator” is how Daniel Kehlmann describes in the essay Where is Carlos Montúfar? his narrative self-image, “operates with realities. Out of the desire to correct the existing one according to his ideas, he invents a second, private ... "-" Telling, that means drawing a bow where there is initially none, giving the developments structure and consistency precisely where reality none of this offers. "

Kehlmann invents his protagonists and their stories and puts himself and the reader - in a kind of experiment - into their perspective. His heroes are usually extreme figures in one way or another: extremely superficial and vain like in Ich and Kaminski or extremely talented and aloof like in Mahler's time . The tension arises not least from the question of whether and how these extreme characters fail. In an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2011, he emphasized how much he was influenced by EL Doctorow . There is no other writer from whom he has learned more than from the author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime .

Kehlmann's heroes live in a reality that seems familiar to people and at the same time come up against the limits of this reality: in Beerholm's imagination , a stage magician suddenly believes he can really do magic, in Mahler's time a young scientist has found a formula with theirs Help he can save time, and in his novel Fame - A Novel in Nine Stories, Kehlmann completely exaggerates the situation of the real by completely blurring fiction and fictionality.

From the literary point of view, Kehlmann was described as a “ magical realist ” and thus included in a tradition that goes back to the 1920s and, among other things, a. with names like Alfred Kubin , Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Leo Perutz , but also with Latin American authors like Gabriel García Márquez . If this classification is to be regarded as coherent up to his novella Der fernste Ort , the novel Ich und Kaminski does not belong in this category. There the protagonist, a superficial careerist, senses the near death of the well-known painter Kaminski as an opportunity to establish himself as a critic in the art world by writing his biography. In the confrontation with the serene artist, he finally realizes how little his previous life was worth.

Measuring the World is Kehlmann's most successful novel, with around 2.3 million copies sold in German-speaking countries alone. Thenovel came in secondon a list of the world's best-selling books of 2006 published by the New York Times on April 15, 2007. It tells the life stories of the two researchers Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauß ,enriched with numerous inventions- a novel about the emergence of modern science, about the German Classic . The book is mostly written in indirect speech, which creates a variety of funny, even burlesque effects. Historians criticize the portrayal of the protagonists and their time in this work, however, in some cases violently.

On January 19, 2009, Kehlmann's book Ruhm - A Novel in Nine Stories was published , which triggered a strong media response in advance. On December 28, 2008 , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an authorized preprint and an interview with the author, which was followed by a portrait with reviewers in Der Spiegel magazine on January 5, 2009. For violation of the embargo , which for the publication of reviews one before 19 January 2009. penalty of 250,000 euros envisaged, sued the Rowohlt publishing the mirror than a month later, moved the action whose chance of success, the Court already at the hearing in June 2009 doubted, but then returned in May 2010 in agreement with the other side. The critics' acceptance of fame was controversial, ranged from “world literature” to “pure Germanist prose” and led to the rare case of “criticism of criticism” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on February 18, 2009. When Kehlmann was asked in an interview by Gunther Nickel about the literary critical response to his novel and about “alternatives to current literary critical practice”, he replied: “It's like with the dentists. Sometimes you wonder why there are people who do this job voluntarily. But one cannot therefore demand the abolition of the profession. However, it cannot be denied that dentists are usually better trained. ”By mid-February 2009, around 300,000 copies of the book had already been sold. The book reached first place on the bestseller lists of Der Spiegel and Focus and tenth on Spiegel's annual bestseller list Germany 2009 .

On August 30, 2013 Kehlmann's novel appeared F . He tells the story of three brothers who are liars, deceivers and hypocrites. The novel was included in the long list of the German Book Prize 2013 and shortly after its publication, like Kehlmann's previous novels, reached first place on the Spiegel bestseller list.

In the fall of 2016, his story You should have gone was published. The cover of the German first edition was designed by Thomas Demand using a picture specially made for it.

In 2017, Kehlmann's novel Tyll was published , in which he tells a fictional life story of Till Eulenspiegel . In the non-linearly narrated work, Kehlmann draws on existing anecdotes about Eulenspiegel. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War ; its key figures such as the winter king Friedrich I King of Bohemia and his wife Elisabeth Stuart or the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf appear as impressive figures in the novel as do civil historical figures of the time ( e.g. Athanasius Kircher or Paul Fleming ). Compared to previous Till Eulenspiel stories, Kehlmann emphasizes the hardship and poverty of a life as a fool in the 17th century as the price of the freedom associated with it.

Essay writing and literary criticism

Kehlmann explains his experimentally oriented poetics when writing a historical novel in the text which gives his essay collection the title Where is Carlos Montúfar? Before that, he had already worked as a literary critic many times , including for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Volltext , Literaturen and the magazine Der Spiegel . He has particularly great sympathy for the work of Vladimir Nabokov , while he distanced himself significantly from a politically committed writer such as Bertolt Brecht in 2008. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to connect Kehlmann not only with Brecht, but even with Karl Marx . The book that impressed him the most, however, is Tolstoy's War and Peace, he says .

He opened his Frankfurt poetics lectures under the title Come, Geister on the subject of the repression of National Socialism in the young Federal Republic. He made connections between Ingeborg Bachmann , the first lecturer in the poetics lectures in 1959, and other events of that year. The writer has been a member of the jury of the Michael Althen Prize for Criticism since it was founded in 2012.

Work processing

A dramatization by Ich und Kaminski (stage version and director: Anna Maria Krassnigg) was premiered in Vienna Salon5 in September 2008 . In the same month, the Braunschweig State Theater brought out Dirk Engler's adaptation of Die Vermessung der Welt . In September 2009, ZORN! - Dramatic storytelling To see the world premiere of his short story Killing today: both the staging (stage version and direction: Benedikt Haubrich) and the film adaptation of the material (screenplay and direction: Tobias Dörr) were shown. In the 2010 season, the Reichenau Festival presented the world premiere of Daniel Kehlmann's novel Ruhm , which was dramatized for the stage by Anna Maria Krassnigg . Krassnigg's production described the criticism as a rather “loose sequence of scenes”.

On September 15, 2018, the first stage version of the novel Tyll premiered at the Schauspiel Köln . Director Stefan Bachmann staged the adaptation by himself and Julian Pörksen as a four-hour theatrical performance, a picture puzzle between the time of the 30 Years War and the present.

Others

In Kehlmann's science @ fiction column , published on March 25, 2007 in the science magazine heureka! the Viennese weekly newspaper Falter appeared, the writer also commented on Wikipedia : Kehlmann describes the article about him as flawed in details and as the main source of many journalists who write about him. The assertion to be read there that he had already inserted wrong details into an article on reggae music for fun's sake, he has now revoked in his column.

In Thomas Glavinic 's 2007 published novel That's me , which apparently saves the trouble of conveying information to the reader in encrypted form, there is both a “Thomas Glavinic” and a “Daniel Kehlmann”, a “good friend” of “Thomas Glavinic ", in front. "Daniel Kehlmann" regularly informs "Thomas Glavinic" the latest sales figures for his novel Die Vermessung der Welt . However, critics warn against receiving the supposed non-fiction as such.

Daniel Kehlmann also deals privately with the art of magic . He has mastered several magic tricks. He processed his knowledge of and fascination with the art of magic in the novel Beerholm's presentation .

Awards and nominations

Works

Single track

Essay Poetics

theatre

Daniel Kehlmann was commissioned to write a play for the Salzburg Festival , the premiere of which was to open the festival's theater program in 2010. A production directed by Matthias Hartmann was planned . In July 2009, in a controversially discussed opening speech at the Salzburg Festival, Kehlmann criticized the German-language directorial theater, whereupon it became difficult (according to Kehlmanns Verlag) to find a director for the play. On August 1, 2011, Kehlmann's first stage play, Geister, was presented in Princeton as part of the Salzburg Festival in a staged reading , directed by Christopher Hampton . The play deals with the life stages of the mathematician Kurt Gödel . The first performance on the theater stage took place in September 2011 in the Schauspielhaus Graz , directed by Anna Badora .

In November 2012 his second play Der Mentor premiered at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, directed by Herbert Föttinger . In November 2014, Christopher Hampton's play A Dark Desire , translated by Daniel Kehlmann, premiered at the Theater in der Josefstadt. At the beginning of February 2017, Kehlmann's play Heilig Abend , again directed by Herbert Föttinger, premiered at the Theater in der Josefstadt.

In September 2018, the fourth play The Journey of the Lost premiered at the theater in der Josefstadt. In the 2020/21 season, Christopher Hampton's The Secret of a Stranger, based on Stefan Zweig's novella Letter to a Stranger, will be premiered in the German translation by Daniel Kehlmann at the Theater in der Josefstadt.

  • Four pieces. Ghosts in Princeton / The Mentor / Christmas Eve / The Journey of the Lost . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-03475-7 .

radio play

  • 2004: Me and Kaminski , Director: Thomas Leutzbach (WDR)
  • 2007: Measuring the World , Director: Alexander Schuhmacher (NDR)
  • 2013: Geister in Princeton , director: Norbert Schaeffer (NDR / ORF). Speaker: Wolfgang Berger et al. Argon Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8398-1249-5 . With 1 CD, 78 minutes.
  • 2014: The Mentor , Director: Götz Fritsch (MDR / ORF)
  • 2017: Christmas Eve , directed by Stuart Kummer (WDR)
  • 2018: Tyll , director: Alexander Schuhmacher (WDR)

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Daniel Kehlmann. In: text + kritik , issue 177, January 2008.
  • Iuditha Balint: hyperfiction, simulation. Media (technologies) and the architecture of storytelling in Daniel Kehlmann's “Ruhm. A novel in nine stories ” . In: Yearbook of Hungarian German Studies 2010. Bonn 2011, pp. 15–31.
  • Roland Z. Bulirsch: world travel as poetry . In: Sense and Form. 6/2006. Structure, Berlin 2006, pp. 846–852.
  • Anna Echterhölter: Nice reports. Alexander von Humboldt, Hubert Fichte and Daniel Kehlmann in Venezuela . In: Culture & Ghosts. 1 (2006).
  • Markus Gasser: The kingdom in the sea. Daniel Kehlmann's secret . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0617-2 . Extended paperback edition: Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-25852-7 .
  • Alexander Honold: Arrival in World Literature. Adventurous history trips with Ilija Trojanow and Daniel Kehlmann . In: New Rundschau. No. 1, 2007. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 82-104.
  • Kaiser, Gerhard: Mass Effect as Heresy - Notes on Daniel Kehlmann's staging practice. In: Literature for Readers. 38 , 2/2015, (= literary business practices), pp. 77–83.
  • Philip Oltermann: Irony and Genius . In: Prospect. No. 3, 2007. London 2007, pp. 77-79.
  • Ina Ulrike Paul: History and literature - Organon of self-knowledge. About Daniel Kehlmann's novel Die Vermessung der Welt (2005) . In: Ina Ulrike Paul, Richard Faber (ed.): The historical novel between art, ideology and science. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, pp. 159–178, ISBN 978-3-8260-5021-3 .
  • Joachim Rickes: The metamorphoses of the "devil" in Daniel Kehlmann - "Tell Karl Ludwig to me" . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8260-4339-0 .
  • Joachim Rickes: Daniel Kehlmann and Latin American literature . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4827-2 .
  • Adam Soboczynski: Help, I'll be portrayed . In: ZEIT Magazin , No. 43, October 16, 2008, pp. 23–33.
  • Irene Zanol: Bibliography Daniel Kehlmann. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1260-7 ( Bibliographies on German Literary History , Volume 24).

Web links

Commons : Daniel Kehlmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. He has both nationalities. See Ulrich Weinzierl : Fired properly at least once . In: Die Welt from February 28, 2006.
  2. Volker Weidermann : The world surveyor . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from September 18, 2005.
  3. Daniel Kehlmann Visiting Professor , on as.nyu.edu
  4. member entry by Daniel Kehlmann in the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 10.11.17
  5. Daniel Kehlmann: "There is no need to invite Nazis to the university" . In: ZEIT Campus 2/2018, February 6, 2018 . ( zeit.de [accessed on April 24, 2018]). ; Nicolas Büchse: Panorama of the devastation and abyss . stern.de October 22, 2017.
  6. ^ Daniel Kehlmann: He learned from Kleist and I from him in the FAZ, April 7, 2011, accessed on July 23, 2014
  7. ^ Frans Oort: Measuring the World . Book review. In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 55/6, pp. 681–684 ( PDF (PDF)), and Frank Holl : "Slavery is the second greatest insult to humans ..." Daniel Kehlmann's newly invented Alexander von Humboldt . In HiN - Humboldt on the net. International Journal for Humboldt Studies XIII, 25 (2012), http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/romanistik/humboldt/hin/hin25/holl.htm
  8. Volker Hage: I suffered a lot . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 2009 ( online ).
  9. Fame has no blocking period. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  10. Markus Gasser: weltwoche.ch . In: The World Week of January 7, 2009.
  11. Elke Heidenreich : stern.de . In: Stern from February 10, 2009.
  12. Felicitas von Lovenberg : The fame and the ruff . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 18, 2009.
  13. "We have accumulated fictions that are now collapsing" - Daniel Kehlmann in conversation with Gunther Nickel. In: full text . Zeitung für Literatur, No. 1/2009, p. 4 f., Here: p. 5.
  14. Michael Kluger: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Sometimes an author is gracious ). In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from February 20, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de
  15. ^ "Ruhm": Kehlmann at the top of the German bestseller lists. ( Memento of March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) diepresse.com, January 23, 2009.
  16. ^ Annual bestseller list 2009 from Der Spiegel ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on buchreport.de
  17. Daniel Kehlmanns conquers SPIEGEL bestseller list Reinbek at the top , on buchreport.de
  18. Philipp Jakob: The Winter Queen. Daniel Kehlmann returns to the historical novel with “Tyll”. literaturkritik.de, November 27, 2017, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  19. Jan Süselbeck : Nerd versus profile killer . Daniel Kehlmann gave a speech about Bertolt Brecht. In: literaturkritik.de
  20. Gunther Nickel: "Lifesense" in "Real Life" . What connects the "magical realist" Daniel Kehlmann with Karl Marx and Bertolt Brecht. In: literaturkritik.de
  21. Daniel Kehlmann on "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. In: kurier.at. September 25, 2015, accessed December 23, 2017 .
  22. Peter Alexander Kennen. Frankfurter Rundschau, June 3, 2014
  23. ^ The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism 2016. ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) FAZ ; accessed July 13, 2016
  24. Me and Kaminski. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  25. Killing at the ZORN! -Festival. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  26. ^ Festival Reichenau 2010: Daniel Kehlmann - "Ruhm" ( Memento from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ^ Reichenau: Between art and artificiality . ( Memento from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) kurier.at
  28. Tyll - Stefan Bachmann directs Daniel Kehlmann's novel for the season opening at the Schauspiel Köln , Nachtkritik.de from September 15, 2018, accessed September 16, 2018
  29. Kehlmann's column
  30. Ursula March: Without a scrap of fiction . Time online . September 19, 2007
  31. Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, No. 9, March 2, 2018
  32. ^ Daniel Kehlmann receives the Frank Schirrmacher Prize . orf.at, March 7, 2018; accessed on March 7, 2018.
  33. Author Daniel Kehlmann receives Anton Wildgans Prize 2019. In: orf.at. April 16, 2019, accessed April 16, 2019 .
  34. ROMY Academy Awards: The playing field for experts. In: Kurier.at . March 11, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  35. Contents - Kehlmann writes a new play for the Salzburg Festival ( Memento from July 17th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), press release in ad-hoc-news.
  36. Festival: Kehlmann speech causes a stir. In: salzburg. ORF .at.
  37. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 26, 2011, p. 13.
  38. ^ Salzburg Festival 2010: Minichmayr is coming, Kehlmann is missing. In: Spiegel Online .
  39. You can't eat formulas. Review by Dirk Schümer, September 26, 2011, FAZ, accessed September 28, 2011.
  40. ^ Geister in Princeton (UA) by Daniel Kehlmann. ( Memento from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Article about the world premiere on the website of the Schauspielhaus Graz (undated). Retrieved September 23, 2011.
  41. Kehlmann's first stage play about Kurt Gödel. In: Styria. ORF .at, September 23, 2011. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
  42. Christina Böck: They're just more impolite , wienerzeitung.at, accessed on December 25, 2012.
  43. Destructive Psychological Triangle: “A Dark Desire” by Christopher Hampton in Josefstadt . In: Wiener Zeitung , November 28, 2014; accessed on January 18, 2015.
  44. Theater in der Josefstadt - A Dark Desire: World premiere, premiere on November 27, 2014. Accessed on January 18, 2015.
  45. Theater in der Josefstadt - Christmas Eve: World premiere, premiere on February 2, 2017 .
  46. "The Journey of the Lost" celebrated in Josefstadt . orf.at, September 7, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2018.
  47. World premiere: “The secret of a stranger” by Christopher Hampton based on Stefan Zweig, Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna. In: theaterkompass.de. March 7, 2020, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  48. Secret of a Stranger. In: josefstadt.org. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .