Dietmar Dath

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Dietmar Dath (born April 3, 1970 in Rheinfelden ) is a German author , journalist and translator .

Dietmar Dath (2008)
Dietmar Dath at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017. "The cut through the sun"

Life

Dath grew up in Schopfheim in southern Baden , where he attended the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium and graduated from the Freiburg Rotteck-Gymnasium . After completing his community service, he studied physics and literature in Freiburg . Since 1990 he has published literary and journalistic articles on social and pop-cultural topics in domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines , also under pseudonyms such as "David Dalek", "Dagmar Dath" or "Dieter Draht". He has also translated works by Joe R. Lansdale , Kodwo Eshun and Buddy Giovinazzo from English. As a journalist, Dath was editor-in-chief of the magazine Spex from 1998 to 2000 , from 2001 to 2007 he was the features editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , for which he has been working again as an editor in the field of film since September 2011. The author lives in Freiburg.

Literary work

Dath's first books were published by independent publishers in the mid-1990s . Since 2005 some of his books have also been published by Suhrkamp Verlag . In 2008 his novel The Abolition of Species was shortlisted for the German Book Prize . Dath often uses autobiographical content in his novels, for example his protagonists are alliterated , like the author, “David Dalek” or “Martin Mahr”, come from small towns in Baden and work in newspaper or magazine editorial offices. In 2009 the website litradio.net put a 35-part complete reading of the almost 1000-page novel Forever in Honey on the Internet, which the author and Andreas Platthaus had given in the Frankfurt Literaturhaus . Dath's works have been translated into Greek and English , among others .

Socio-political classification

Dath takes a communist-Marxist stance. In 2008, for example, he appeared in Alexander Kluge's Nachrichten aus der ideological antiquity , a cinematic discussion of Karl Marx 's capital , as a conversation partner and expert. In January 2009 he discussed the “future of Marxism” with Philipp Oehmke in Spiegel magazine and when asked whether he was in favor of the “elimination of the capitalist system”, he replied: “Absolutely.” Then Dath hopes for “a system of communalism” , division of labor, democratic production based on the most advanced technology ”. He updates Leninist theories, for example in Honey Forever , where he makes explicit reference to Lenin's What to Do? takes. After the essay Machine Winter was published , Mathias Bröckers mockingly referred to the author as "Lenin 2.0". In The Implex , the Dath authored with Barbara Kirchner, Dath argues that social progress on the elimination of domination depends: the literary criticism took the work on ungracious, then Alexander Cammann interfered in time , for example on a "saucy Checkerpose" and "Kalashnikov-like self-empowerment prose". In January 2019 he took part as one of the speakers at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin, sponsored by the left-wing daily Junge Welt , with the contribution "Socialism does not need a prophecy, it is made" . On May 3, 2019, Dath called in the FAZ to elect the DKP in the 2019 European elections .

poetics

Dath's understanding of poetry is also shaped by social policy: When asked about his poetics , the author replied that he wrote texts “that are not about how it is, but about how it should be, how it will hopefully not be or how it will be completely neutral could be. And those are speculative or fantastic texts. ”Dath describes the novel itself as an“ omnivorous form ”. In January 2020 Dath gave the Lichtenberg Poetics Lecture at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

reception

The literary criticism called Dath a "hyperproductive author", a "thought and text generator" who explores the "possibilities of speaking" and who "does not count the limits of thought". Dath's novels were about "Darwin, Marx, Fantasy, Heavy Metal, Zombies and Genetic Engineering". In Simon Urban’s novel Plan D , Dath made a guest appearance as the East German Minister of Culture.

Awards

Works

Novels, short stories

  • Cordula is killing you! or We are not the nemesis of every pipe heckle. Resurrection novel . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9804471-0-3 .
  • The honor of the pack. Horror novel . Maas, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-929010-34-8 .
  • Charonia tritonis. A concert, silly please stay away . Narrative. SuKuLTuR Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-937737-03-0 (= " Beautiful reading " No. 3)
  • The Minkowski tree frog . Serial in 12 chapters. De-Bug, Berlin 2000.
  • Skye Boat Song . Novel. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • On the blind bank. A story of the beach and the cuts . Novel. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Phonon or state without a name . Novel. Edition path integral published by Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2001.
  • with Barbara Kirchner : sister midnight . Novel. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2002.
  • A price. Half-forgotten story from the truth . (= Nice reading. No. 18). SuKuLTuR Verlag, Berlin 2003.
  • Forever in honey . Novel, illustrated by Daniela Burger, Implex, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937148-01-9 (first version, 971 pages), 2nd, revised edition, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940426-02-4 (1035 pages).
  • The salt-white eyes . Fourteen letters about clarity and clarity . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2005.
  • Dirac . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Gun weather . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • The hidden constellation . Roman (as David Dalek). Shayol Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  • The abolition of species . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • She sleeps. Film novel . Edition Phantasia, 2009.
  • All the poems . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Germany is closing . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42163-5 .
  • Iron mice. An encrypted moral mirror . Hablizel, Lohmar 2010.
  • Little police in the snow . Stories. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2012.
  • Pulsar night . Novel. Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-31406-1 .
  • Feldeváye . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46510-3 .
  • German Democratic Bill. A love story . Novel. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-359-02471-2 .
  • Venus wins . Novel. Hablizel Verlag, Lohmar 2015, ISBN 978-3-941978-18-8 . A revised version compared to the first publication in 2015 and expanded by 150 pages was published by Fischer Tor, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-29658-3 .
  • Unfortunately, I am dead . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-46654-4 .
  • The cut through the sun . Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397306-8 .
  • You're like me . Novel. Golden Press, Bremen 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819880-6-2 .
  • Neptunation . Novel. Fischer Tor, Frankfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-596-70223-7 .

Plays

Graphic novel

Essays, non-fiction, journalism

Poetry

  • God calls back. Poems . Leipzig: Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung 2011.

Sound carrier

  • In the awakened garden . Collective deep with ventricular fibrillation . Dust gold 2009.
  • Fern ships as The Schwarzenbach (with Kammerflimmer Kollektief). CD, ZigZag 2012.
  • Do not die. Watch out. as The Schwarzenbach (with Kammerflimmer Kollektief). CD, Dust Gold 2015.

Radio plays

Translations

  • Kodwo Eshun: Brighter Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. Id-Verlag, 1999.
  • Joe R. Lansdale: Drive-In . Maas Verlag, 1997.
  • Buddy Giovinazzo: Cracktown . Maas Verlag, 1995.
  • Paul Di Filippo: mouth full of tongues . Suhrkamp Verlag, 2010.

Other publications

  • Liz Disch and the Hermit King . With: Ik krijg je nog wel and Adler in order . Edited by Barbara Kirchner, Kevil Library No. 2, Graben Verlag, 1994.
  • Contra naturam. In: Johannes Ullmaier (Ed.): Shift! Work reports for the end times. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, pp. 386-411.
  • Four flights of stairs through Döblin . Essay. In: New Rundschau. 120/1, pp. 23-31. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Solus Ipse. Empty dragon. In: Karla Schmidt (Ed.): Hinterland . Wurdack, Nittendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-69-3 .
  • "Nobody is obliged to be constructive when the world sucks." On Herbert Marcuse's topicality . Part 1. Konkret (journal), issue 10 (Supplement Literature Konkret No. 39), 2014, pp. 8–11. A conversation by DD with Hermann L. Gremliza , Thomas Ebermann , Robert Stadlober and Andreas Spechtl
  • In addition, more than 700 scattered, mainly columnist publications in newspapers, magazines and anthologies (e.g. in Titanic, FAZ, Spex, Konkret, Jungle World )

literature

Web links

Commons : Dietmar Dath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Interviews with Dath

Literary works

Videos about Dietmar Dath

Radio plays and downloads on Dietmar Dath

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sciencegarden.de
  2. ↑ For example: Dietmar Dath: Gift articles. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Feuilleton special from October 9, 2011, p. 53.
  3. ↑ Litradio article on Dietmar Dath. ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.litradio.net
  4. ↑ There is much useful in Lenin's writings . In: The world . August 28, 2008.
  5. ↑ faz.net FAZ: Alexander Kluge filmed "Das Kapital"
  6. ↑ a b c d e Philipp Oehmke : Writing how the world should be . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2009 ( online ).
  7. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  8. ^ Perlentaucher to Dietmar Dath, Barbara Kirchner: Der Implex. Social progress: history and idea.
  9. ↑ Left around in the FAZ district (accessed May 3, 2019)
  10. ↑ Focus: Writing now. The hour of the little rodents. ( Memento from March 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Literature discussion with Ulrike Draesner, Dietmar Dath and John von Düffel; Literatures, edition 01 / 02.08.
  11. ↑ url = https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/617400.html Lichtenberg Poetics Lecture 2020: Dietmar Dath
  12. ↑ a b c Thomas Lindemann: The completely crazy worlds of Dietmar Dath . In: Welt Online . October 6, 2007 (accessed November 20, 2009)
  13. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  14. ↑ Günther Anders Prize. International Günther Anders Society, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  15. ↑ The prize is awarded for the first time in 2018 and then every two years “for outstanding achievements in the field of philosophical, cultural and political essay writing” in German by the International Günther Anders Society and endowed with 20,000 euros by the CHBeck Foundation / Munich. First jury: Mathias Greffrath , Thomas Macho and Elisabeth von Thadden .
  16. ↑ de-bug.de
  17. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: From the lion's mouth . In: Spiegel Online - Kultur . November 9, 2009.
  18. ↑ [1]
  19. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zimmertheater-tuebingen.de
  20. ↑ nationaltheater-mannheim.de
  21. ↑ [2]
  22. ↑ [3]
  23. ↑ [4]
  24. ↑ About the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  25. ^ BR radio play Pool - Dath / Maage, Antilopenverlobung
  26. ^ BR radio play Pool - Dath, Largoschmerz
  27. ↑ The Magnetin - ARD audio play database
  28. ↑ No more waiting - ARD audio game database
  29. ^ NDR radio play - Dath Maryam. No obituary for you
  30. ^ Search for Dietmar Dath in the FAZ archive, accessed on December 6, 2012.
  31. ↑ cf. the website Single Generation ( memento of the original from April 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and the query of the Innsbruck newspaper archive @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.single-generation.de
personal data
SURNAME Dath, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinfelden