Emanuel Maeß

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Emanuel Maeß (* 1977 in Jena ) is a German writer . He was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize in 2019 for his debut novel Gelenke des Lichts .

Life

Emanuel Maeß studied politics and literature in Heidelberg , Vienna and Oxford .

He gained fame as an author in German-speaking countries in 2019 with his debut novel Gelenke des Lichts , which was published in the spring by the Wallstein publishing house in Göttingen . An excerpt from the story of inwardness from the rural GDR from 1980 to the early 2000s, shown using the example of a young pastor's son, his childhood love and his intellectual development, was already available in 2017 under the title Werra und Wehr. Memories of Urspring appeared in the literary magazine Sinn und Form .

The novel Gelenke des Lichts was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize in 2019, was nominated for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize and was on the long list of the German Book Prize . The book prize jury praised Maeß 'work for its playful "lightness and depth" and described Joints of Light as a "linguistic novel" and an unconventional "magic hybrid of educational , rogue and campus novel ". Gustav Seibt ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) praised Maeß's romantic tone and sees geographical references to Eckhard Henscheid's novel Maria Schnee - Eine Idylle (1988) and Adalbert Stifter's descriptions of the landscape .

Emanuel Maeß counts Marcel Proust , Jean Paul , Fernando Pessoa , Rainer Maria Rilke and Eckhard Henscheid among his literary role models.

He lives as a freelance writer in Berlin .

Publications

  • Werra and Wehr. Memories of Urspring . In: Sinn und Form , 69th year / 2017 / 3rd issue, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-943297-35-5 . Pp. 347-355.
  • Joints of light . Novel. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3439-7 .

Awards

literature

  • Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emanuel Maeß . In: wallstein-verlag.de (accessed on August 21, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b Emanuel Maeß: "Joints of Light" . In: sr.de, (accessed on August 21, 2019).
  3. ^ Mara Cassens Prize. September 10, 2013, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Franz Tumler Literature Prize: Nominations announced . In: voxnews.online (accessed on August 21)
  5. ↑ Joints of Light . In: deutscher-buchpreis.de (accessed on August 21, 2019).
  6. ^ Seibt, Gustav: Metamorphosis Music in German Athens . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 5, 2019, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Emanuel Maeß on "Joints of Light" . In: buchreport.de, March 1, 2019 (accessed August 21, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Measure, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena , GDR