Detlev Holland-Moritz

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Detlev Holland-Moritz (born December 28, 1954 in Solingen ) is a German writer and lives in Berlin .

Life

Detlev Holland-Moritz studied German . He lives and works in Berlin . He has been a writer since the early 1980s and initially presented his texts as multimedia reading performances in West Berlin. Since that time he has contributed significantly to the city's literary scene.

In the 1990s he also began to document his many years of performance. His works are presented on small stages and large festivals, such as the Styrian Autumn in Graz or the Spielart theater festival in Munich .

The short films The Langdon Connection and The Dust of the City are based on his texts. The Dust of the City (director: Heike Ollertz ; actor and narrator: D. Holland-Moritz) premiered at the 1997/98 Berlinale and received the special jury prize at the Monstra de Valencia .

His book of stories Lovers Club, published in 2002 by Merve Verlag . A voice off , contributing to the self-image of the 70's generation and the history of pop in the West German province, obtained in the feature pages some attention.

Since 2000, D. Holland-Moritz has been publishing regularly in the avant-garde literary magazine perspektiven - booklets for contemporary literature .

Since 2003, he and Ralf B. Korte and Uwe Warnke have run the TextTotal literary salon , which analyzes contemporary understanding of poetry in a critical and unusual way.

Publications

  • The way through alternative worlds and a bonus story , Martin Schmitz Verlag , Kassel, Berlin 1995
  • And always parallel to Venus , CD, Martin Schmitz Verlag, Kassel, Berlin 2001
  • Lovers Club. A voice from the off , Merve Verlag , Berlin 2002
  • Fan base pushers. Notes from the periphery 2002 - 2005 , Ritter Verlag , Klagenfurt 2008
  • Was jewesen: West Berlin 1961 - 89 , Parthas-Verlag , Berlin 2009 (as co-editor with Gabriela Wachter )
  • Promoter. A magazine , Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Holland-Moritz, Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen