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Denis Scheck moderates on the ARD main stage at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Denis Scheck (born December 15, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German literary critic , translator and journalist for radio and television.

Life

Denis check 2010

Youth and education

Denis Scheck founded a literary magazine called Newlands at the age of 13 .

He studied German , History and Political Science at the Universities of Tübingen and Dusseldorf and at the University of Texas in Dallas and was by the local Center for Translation Studies with a thesis on Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and EL Doctorow's Ragtime for Master of Arts graduated.

job

Denis Scheck works as a literary agent , translator for US and British authors , editor and freelance critic. From 1997 to 2016 he was a literary editor at Deutschlandfunk , where he regularly presented the show Büchermarkt and commented on the Spiegel bestseller list on Fridays . His successor at Deutschlandfunk is Jan Drees . Scheck resigned from the position in order to moderate the culture magazine Kunscht! From September 2016 . as well as the literary program worth reading in the television program of the Südwestrundfunk . He is best known to television viewers as the presenter of the book magazine Druckfrisch , which has been broadcast monthly on the first since February 9, 2003 .

In 2000 Denis Scheck was awarded the Critics' Prize of the German Anglist Conference. From 2000 to 2002 he was a member of the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt . In 2004 he took on a visiting professorship for literary criticism at the University of Göttingen for two semesters .

In 2007, Scheck received the translator's bar from the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, “for his sustained commitment to the concerns of literary translators , especially in their long-term engagement with publishers , which is not only based on expertise, but also presented with wit and charm appropriate remuneration for their work. "

Scheck has close personal ties with the European College of Translators of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, EÜK. B. the Straelen atrium talks .

From 2014 to 2016 Scheck was one of three jurors for the Bavarian Book Prize .

Private

Denis Scheck's autograph (October 2019)

Denis Scheck has been married to the journalist Christina Schenk (* 1980) since 2014, with whom he edited a collection of Oscar Wilde 's aphorisms .

Controversy

After his review of the novel An old dream of love by Nuala O'Faolain , which had been highly praised by Elke Heidenreich a few days earlier , Heidenreich described Scheck in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2003 as a "hysterical escalator" and "Tchibo literature." Representative ". Heidenreich had Scheck's final comment that the book was the right thing for "an old box" to refer to. Scheck denied that he meant Heidenreich, but also said: “I don't see her [...] as a colleague, because she is not a literary critic. For her, literature is a remedy for emotional wounds. For me, literature is not there to comfort us over our ailments. ”In the meantime, however, Scheck and Heidenreich have reconciled and, since both live in Cologne and, as dog owners, occasionally meet on the street walking for a walk, they are asking about their well-being of the other.

Scheck criticized the decision of the publishers Oetinger and Thienemann to delete the word " Neger " from certain children's books by Otfried Preußler and Astrid Lindgren , and spoke of a "cowardly, anticipatory obedience to the follies of political correctness that encroaches on art". To his mind to make known, he entered his mission in January 2013 blackface in the style of a minstrel show on - with schwarzgeschminktem face, red lips and white Glaceehandschuhen. A debate ensued in which Scheck was accused of racism or at least a hurtful recourse to racist traditions.

canon

His very personal, partly unorthodox literary canon, a selection of 100 books, published in 2019, does not contain any Schiller, but includes Carl Barks ' Donald Duck (Die Wette), Khalil Gibran (works), Arno Schmidt (Zettel's dream), Hergé (Tim and Struppi), Inger Christensen , Dorothy L. Sayers (murder needs advertising), Agatha Christie (death on the Nile), Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts), Selma Lagerlöf (Nils Holgerson), Clarice Lispector , Herta Müller (breath swing), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Lord of the Crows), James Tiptree junior (Love is the plan, the plan is death), Ursula K. LeGuin (Planet of the Have-Nots), JRR Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), Astrid Lindgren (Mr. Karlsson from the roof ), Joanne K. Rowling (Harry Potter), Hypatia , of which no writing has survived, but which he takes as a symbol for persecuted authors whose work did not survive. The collection is based on a column in the world and radio broadcasts (SWR, WDR). To compensate for the omission of Schiller, he cites his quotation (in a modification of the Rütli oath from Wilhelm Tell) in a Donald Duck comic and he is proud that the German translator Erika Fuchs also included him in a comic, on behalf of the toy store Check (Donald Duck: Let's see what the good check has in store again ). There is only one non-fiction book on his list (Darwin's Origin of Species).

Awards

Fonts

Editing

Translations

  1. Grimes travels to infinity. 1983.
  2. Grimes on El Dorado. 1983.
  3. Grimes has a career. 1983.
  4. Grimes in the paradise of death. 1983.
  5. Grimes with the Sparta rebels. 1984.
  6. Grimes and the Forgotten Colony. 1984.
  7. Grimes and the love drug. 1984.
  8. Grimes versus the pirate queen. 1984.
  9. Grimes on a dangerous mission. 1984.
  10. Grimes, privateer of space. 1985.
  11. Grimes and the last Amazon. 1985.

Web links

Commons : Denis Scheck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Decker: The garbage collector . Portrait on Denis Scheck. In: Tagesspiegel . March 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ The literary journalist Jan Drees will be the new literary editor on Deutschlandfunk from July 15th. Deutschlandfunk-PM from July 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ René Martens: Denis Scheck is now moderating “Kunscht”: Just don't get sluggish . In: the daily newspaper . 2016 ( taz.de [accessed on September 9, 2016]).
  4. ↑ "Something like the Stiftung Warentest" - the literary critic Denis Scheck. ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Portrait on the Goethe-Institut website, accessed on November 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ Denis Scheck takes on guest professorship for literary criticism in Göttingen, press release of January 23, 2004.
  6. ↑ Check in the search mask of the EÜK
  7. ↑ Christina Schenk . Short biography of the journalist and publisher Christina Schenk on www.suhrkamp.de
  8. ↑ Read and let them read. on: taz.de , April 2, 2004.
  9. ↑ With a black face for the "negro". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 28, 2013.
  10. ↑ Debate about the black makeup of the Denis check. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 30, 2013.
  11. ↑ Racism Debate: The Mask of Denis Scheck. In: Spiegel Online. January 31, 2013.
  12. ↑ Denis Scheck's Canon of World Literature
  13. ↑ Literary critic Denis Scheck - “No Sex in Duckburg!” , Interview with Sarah Maria Deckert, Cicero, accessed on January 14, 2020
  14. ↑ Literary critic Denis Scheck receives special prize for being fresh off the press. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  15. ↑ Denis Scheck was awarded the Bavarian Television Prize. Retrieved from daserste.de on July 3, 2014.
  16. ^ Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism 2014 for Denis Scheck. ( Memento of March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  17. ^ Heinrich von Kleist; EL Doctorow;
personal data
SURNAME Check, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary critic, translator and radio and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart