Emma Braslavsky

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Emma Braslavsky will present her novel “Life is not a way of dealing with an animal” at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2016.

Emma Braslavsky (* 1971 in Erfurt ) is a German writer and curator . Her tragicomic debut novel Aus den Sinn (2007) has won several awards. As a curator , she was responsible for interdisciplinary exhibitions. Since 2010 she has been writing and producing the full-length audio comic series Agent Zukunft together with her brother, the musician Alexander Magerl .

Life

Emma Braslavsky (real real name Kathrin Emma, ​​nee Magerl) was born in Erfurt in 1971. Her father suffered memory loss two years before she was born and spent a lot of time in a mental hospital for rehabilitation. Her mother, who was then an accountant, left the child in the care of the paternal grandmother.

After the second grade, a commission sent her to a high school with a foreign language profile. She spent most of her youth on stage as a member of the then Erfurt Ti (c) k youth theater. She played Martha in the multi-award-winning production of Frank Wedekind's “Spring Awakening” (director: Karlheinz Krause, co-director & producer: Renate Lichnok). When she was 14, she danced every now and then on weekends in a dance ensemble for modern dance at the Weimar National Theater. When she was 15 years old, her grandmother died. Braslavsky herself said of her youth: "Three facts saved me from sniffing at tubes of glue: the theater, the great lichnok and Goethe's Faust."

In the early summer of 1989 she managed to escape from the GDR. Many changes of location followed, two years in Munich, one year in Rome, one month in Paris. In 1993 Braslavsky went to Berlin to study foreign language philology and Southeast Asian studies . In 1994 she did an internship at Tor Books (St. Martin's Press) in New York. In 1995 she studied for a semester at the Lomonossow University in Moscow , in 1996 she undertook an extensive trip through Siberia, China and Vietnam. In 1997 she went to the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, College of Social Sciences and Humanities (Vietnam) with a DAAD research grant. In 1998 she spent a semester in Tel Aviv. In 1999 she obtained her Magister Artium at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

This was followed by months of trips to Southeast Asia and Southern Europe.

In 2001 she married the Israeli artist and curator Noam Braslavsky , with whom she had been dating since 1997. The couple has a daughter (* 2003) and lives in Berlin.

Between 2003 and 2008 she and her husband ran the art association “Galerie der Künste eV” in Berlin. During this time she developed large interdisciplinary exhibition formats such as I House You or civil generation , showed young and renowned artists from all over the world and began to write about contemporary art. Her essays (e.g. about Uri Katzenstein ) have appeared internationally in artist and exhibition catalogs. Together with Noam Braslavsky (who was the artistic director of the association) she worked on innovative exhibition formats such as The Murakami Collection (2007)

Between 2004 and 2006, she was also a freelance lecturer in media studies and an external supervisor (including at the University of Bologna) in the field of art psychology (especially on the subject of escapism ).

Between 2011 and 2014 she headed the Young Talent Academy Sprachlabor & Erzählwerkstatt , a talent factory for children and young people between 10 and 19 years of age.

Emma Braslavsky left the Catholic Church in 2010 and has been a member of the Giordano Bruno Foundation since 2014 .

Her novel "The night was pale, the lights blinked", published in 2019, is both a kind of detective novel and a dystopian Berlin portrait of the medium-term future conditions in the fictional year 2060. Products of neuro- robotics and artificial intelligence are an integral part of everyday life in the big city, it prevails radical individualism and at the same time fifty suicides a day happen in this city . The novel tells in an exciting way which problems generate which problem-solving approaches against this background.

criticism

The literary critic Maike Albath classifies Braslavsky as a “representative of a new realism”, “which goes beyond the directly visible reality and penetrates all events with an X-ray view. She puts everything in a very sharp light and highlights the many facets of the factual events: Braslavsky's reality is an extremely complex and contradictory structure. "She calls her a" representative of immediacy ", her style of speech is permeated by the rhythm of suddenness. Her novels are polyphonic structures. Braslavsky "creeps into her characters, including their emotions and modes of expression". Albath lifts her out of the writing group of her generation comrades, she does not have that laconic voice in the tradition of Raymond Carver, which adhered to most of her colleagues. “Its syntax is more complex, saturated with images, its tone is not even and tempered, but rather quick-tempered and surprising.” Denis Scheck describes her first novel as “a great, successful experiment with forms” that “cast a spell over him from the first page Has". Susanne Schulz writes in the Nordkurier: "In the midst of the hymns of praise for Emma Braslavsky's debut, the critical voices are surprisingly contradicting: Sometimes too much" general cheerfulness "is criticized at the expense of the more serious episodes, sometimes the book appears too" pensive and pensive ", sometimes with it "Too much political morality." She is often accused of linguistic exuberance, then again she has not gone far enough. The book is "overloaded", said the books magazine. She wants too much, wrote Die Welt. Marius Meller said a defining sentence on Deutschlandradio Kultur: "Emma Braslavsky is an extremely talented debutante who lifts the heaviest weights with her first book - and yet composes extremely light, hilarious prose."

Works

Novels

Essays

  • View inside, three times , catalog text, In: Noam Braslavsky. refuge (t) räume 0-II (German / English), Berlin 2003
  • zivilgeneratur , 9 philosophical essays on nine works to the language of civil evolution Bulletin p # 1 of papirossa - network museum for language, Berlin 2004
  • The director's apartment. Investigation report on a forgotten friend. In: Bulletin p # 2 of the papirossa - network museum for language, Berlin 2005
  • Caution! Suspicions about Templars and tomatoes. An Epiphany Inspired by Uri Katzenstein's video work 'Azoi' , catalog text, Berlin 2005
  • The Ocean Does Not Respond to Us. The Transcendence of Time in Katzenstein's video work 'Hope Machines' , catalog text, Berlin 2007. Emma Braslavsky: The Ocean Does Not Respond to Us. The Transcendence of Time in Katzenstein's video work 'Hope Machines'. In: emmabraslavsky.de. 2007, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  • The Murakami Collection. Matthew Barney , Joseph Beuys , Maurizio Cattelan , Gilbert & George , Félix González-Torres , Damian Hirst , Jenny Holzer , Jeff Koons , Thomas Schütte , Hiroshi Sugimoto , Rachel Whiteread , catalog text, Berlin / Hannover 2007
  • The conservation of species , contribution to the Ostseeblog , 2009
  • The art of staying free. In: hour of the citizen. Magazine of the Robert Bosch Stiftung , Stuttgart 2009
  • Amplitudes , short story (German / English), In: XVI. Rohkunstbau . Atlantis I. Hidden Histories - New Identities , Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2009
  • Essay contributions on superdemokraticos.com , 2010
  • Peter hands Ottilie silver oyster cutlery. In: EDIT, Heft 54/55 Prosa , Leipzig 2010
  • Please choose the title for this essay yourself! In: Los Superdemokraticos. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010
  • Thank you, Uwe! Subsequent acceptance speech to Uwe Johnson on the occasion of his 80th birthday, In: Assumptions. Uwe Johnson and contemporary literature. (Ed. Carsten Gansel ), Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2014
  • Fail in Peace, Fail Happier! Fail Successfully! The Art of Enduring the Stupidity of Our Intelligence in Uri Katzenstein's Works , catalog text, exhibition catalog Uri Katzenstein , Tel Aviv Art Museum , Tel Aviv 2015
  • Braslavsky's The World of Wonders - Advice on improving the world situation on Suhrkamp's logbook.
  • Essay contributions under the heading Free text on time online .

Audio cinema

  • The technology of my death ( Memento from September 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), production: Germany 2089 , BR 2 (radio play and media art), broadcast on November 5, 2010
  • Agent future. Part 1: The reward , dingsbums productions, Berlin 2011
  • Agent future. Part 2: The expansion of the trading zone , dingsbums productions, Berlin 2011
  • Agent future. Part 3: Short circuit of the worlds , dingsbums productions, Berlin 2012
  • Plain text , 8 direct mail . Production Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2012
  • Agent future. Part 4: The accelerated intelligence , dingsbums productions, Berlin 2013

Media art

Scattered prose (selection)

  • Lotus and discarded jewels. In: Musselhaufen No. 44, Viersen 2004
  • Alla Baster. Short prose. In: marble & apricots. Laas / South Tyrol 2008
  • No sex, no Marx. In: Katharina Bendixen (Hrsg.): Squeaky bright days and mirror-smooth nights. poetenladen, Leipzig 2008
  • Nowhere. Short story. In: Michael Hametner (Ed.): Cracks in concrete. Rotbuch, Berlin 2009
  • Amplitudes. Translated by Andrew Boreham. In: no man's land. # 4 2009/2010
  • Three contributions to ILYR. Illustration tell snakes. Edited by Asuka Grün, Marina Friedrich. With contributions by Anatol Regnier , Emma Braslavsky, Gino Chiellino , Ilma Rakusa , Kilian Leypold , Philip Maroldt , Şinasi Dikmen , Sylvia Geist , Thomas Kraft , Vesna Lubina . University of Nuremberg 2012

Exhibitions as curator (selection)

Catalogs (editor)

  • zivilgeneratur , Bulletin p # 1 of papirossa - network museum for language, Berlin 2004, ISSN  1614-8886
  • I House You , On the language of your own four walls, Bulletin p # 2 of the papirossa - netzmuseum für Sprache, Berlin 2005, ISSN  1614-8886
  • The Murakami Collection , Berlin / Hanover 2007
  • Above the Roofs of Berlin , designed by neubauberlin , Berlin 2014

Awards

literature

  • Bill Niven: Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works. Camden House, 2014, ISBN 978-1-57113-535-3 .
  • Christopher Schliephake: Contemporary expulsion literature as an echo sounder of memory. In: Marita Krauss, Sarah Scholl-Schneider, Peter Fassl (eds.): Culture of remembrance and life courses. Volk Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-937200-99-6 .
  • Paweł Zimniak: Group as a Memory Medium - On the Sudeten German principle of memory in Emma Braslavsky's “Out of the Mind” (2007). In: Carsten Gansel / Paweł Zimniak (eds.): The “Principle of Remembrance” in contemporary German literature after 1989. V & R Unipress / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-738-9 .

Web links

Commons : Emma Braslavsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kim Kindermann: Writing against the fear of forgetting everything. Portrait of the writer Emma Braslavsky. Deutschlandradio, September 26, 2007.
  2. ↑ gdk-berlin.de
  3. ^ The Murakami Collection
  4. ↑ The author's LinkedIn profile
  5. ↑ Young Talent Academy ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2016 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 / sprachlabor-erzaehlwerkstatt.de
  6. ↑ Twitter account of the author
  7. ↑ Troubled times provoke negative social drafts , review on SWR2 of August 18, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019
  8. ↑ Laudatory speech on the award of the Uwe Johnson Prize to Emma Braslavsky, September 29, 2007.
  9. ↑ Emma Braslavsky: Author - Emma Braslavsky. In: superdemokraticos.com. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Emma Braslavsky: The world of goods of miracles - advice for improving the world situation. In: logbuch-suhrkamp.de. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Profile of Emma Braslavsky in "Freitext". In: zeit.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Braslavsky, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and philosopher, curator and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt , GDR