Hannes Bajohr

Hannes Bajohr, 2019

Hannes Bajohr (* 1984 in Berlin-Friedrichshain ) is a German author , philosopher , literary scholar and translator .

life and work

Bajohr grew up in Berlin and Bonn . After graduating from the Godesberg Education Center , he studied philosophy, German and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2010 he finished his university studies with a thesis on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt ; the doctorate obtained in 2017 was dedicated to Hans Blumenberg's philosophy of language. In addition to an edition of letters on Peter Weiss , he emerged as a translator of the works of the political scientist Judith N. Shklar , whose most important works he translated into German, introduced and popularized. In 2008 his prose debut co-ordinates appeared . As a writer, he mainly publishes experiments with digital poetry and conceptual writing. Academically, he works on the history of German philosophy of the 20th century (Arendt, Blumenberg, philosophical anthropology) and on the digital in literature.

Together with Gregor Weichbrodt , he is part of the text collective 0x0a for digital conceptual literature. 0x0a became famous in the spring of 2015 with a collection of 282,596 Facebook comments from the right-wing national Pegida movement, which Weichbrodt had collected over a period of over a month with the help of a Python script. Bajohr and Weichbrodt publish the text corpus on their website for downloading and send their own literary interpretation after the text: In Faith, Love, Hope they sort out all sentences from the corpus that start with “I believe”, “I love” or “I hope” began after the Pauline virtues (“Faith, Love, Hope”) as a parody of the goal of the Pegida movement itself, namely to save the Christian West from an alleged Islamization of Germany. In a setting by Alexander Keuk , on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Dresden Chamber Choir , parts of the text corpus were performed under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann in the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden.

In 2015 he published his novel Average , for which "all books from Der Kanon. Die deutsche Literatur: Romane, edited by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 20 volumes, Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 2002, used as text corpus, whose average sentence length was determined with Python ( 18 words), all sentences of other length have been sorted out and the result is then sorted alphabetically ". It can therefore be assigned to digital conceptual literature. With Swantje Lichtenstein he translated Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing , a key work in conceptual writing.

Semi-finished products appeared in 2018 . Word processing , a volume with “digital lyric poetry” published by Suhrkamp Verlag , which was widely received. In the FAZ Christian Metz praised “surprisingly often the verses shine full of wit and sophistication”, while the critic Michael Braun judged negatively: “In this dreary new world of digital literature, imagination has become superfluous. If this algorithm-based literature with its meager lists of words and pale collages sets a precedent, we can expect an age of wasteland. ”In the taz, Hans Hütt replied :“ You can find that, like the critic Michael Braun, disrespectful. With this criticism he takes the side of yesterday and banishes the practice of literary research into poetological sideline. "

During his doctorate, Bajohr worked as a lecturer at Columbia University , was a research assistant at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research , Berlin, with a project on the history of "negative anthropology" and is now working at the Media Studies seminar at the University of Basel.

Single track

• 2008: coordinates. Stories. Berlin: J. Frank. ISBN 978-3-940249-32-6 .
• 2011: Dimensions of the public. Politics and knowledge with Hannah Arendt. Berlin: Lukas. ISBN 978-3-86732-103-7 .
• 2011: As editor: Peter Weiss: Letters to Henriette Itta Blumenthal. Together with Angela Abmeier. Berlin: Matthes and Seitz . ISBN 978-3-88221-698-1 .
• 2013: As editor and translator: Judith N. Shklar: Der Liberalismus der Furcht. With a foreword by Axel Honneth and essays by Michael Walzer , Seyla Benhabib and Bernard Williams . Berlin: Matthes and Seitz. ISBN 978-3-88221-979-1 .
• 2014: As translator: Judith N. Shklar: Quite normal vice . Berlin: Matthes and Seitz. ISBN 978-3-88221-389-8 .
• 2015: average. Novel. Berlin: Frohmann Verlag . ISBN 978-3-944195-57-5 .
• 2015: Timidities. Berlin: Readux. ISBN 978-3-944801-39-1 .
• 2016: As editor: Code and concept: Literature and the digital. Berlin: Frohmann Verlag. ISBN 978-3-944195-86-5 .
• 2017: As editor and translator: Judith N. Shklar: Der Liberalismus derrechte . Berlin: Matthes and Seitz. ISBN 978-3-95757-241-7 .
• 2018: semi-finished product. Word processing . Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-07358-2 .
• 2019: reversible body. Long poem . Berlin: Frohmann. ISBN 978-3-944-19517-9 .
• 2019: As editor and translator: Judith N. Shklar: Commitment, Loyalty, Exile . Berlin: Matthes and Seitz. ISBN 978-3-95757-570-8 .
• 2020: As editor and translator: Judith N. Shklar: About Hannah Arendt . Berlin: Matthes and Seitz. ISBN 978-3-95757-797-9 .
• 2020: As editor: The Anthropos in the Anthropocene. The return of man at the moment of his supposedly final farewell . Berlin: de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11066-525-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hannes Bajohr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author website
• Website of the collective of authors 0x0a
• 7x arsenal expansion. Digital conceptual poetry on the S.Fischer Verlag website
• Five suggestions for a new millennium . Joint live text with Jan Brandt , Nikola Richter , Annika Reich , Clemens J. Setz and Jörg Albrecht

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Speaker's profiles CROWD conference. Retrieved April 9, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Schulze, Holger: Going for a drink, driving the bus. (PDF) In: MERKUR. Retrieved April 9, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Digital Poetry on the Internet: Poetry Code and Data Dada | Culture Info | SWR2. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Expand the writing . In: Epitext . July 3, 2017 ( hkw.de [accessed July 26, 2017]).
5. ↑ Pegida postings on Facebook: What the neighbor thinks but doesn't say. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved April 9, 2016 . 
6. ↑ The language of Pegida. In: 0x0a. Retrieved April 9, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Karsten Blüthgen: Seekers on the pulse of time . Ed .: Saxon Newspaper . Saxon Newspaper, Dresden 2016.
8. ↑ DNN-Online: World premieres - Jubilee concert of the Dresden Chamber Choir in the Dreikönigskirche / Kultur News / Kultur - DNN - Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten. In: www.dnn.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 . 
9. ↑ more Light: Kan Kun. In: mehrlicht.twoday.net. Retrieved April 9, 2016 . 
10. ^ Announcement in Frohmann Verlag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 . 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.  
11. ↑ Annette Gilbert: "Possibilities of Text in the Digital" . In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . tape 91 , no. 2 , June 1, 2017, ISSN  0012-0936 , p. 203–221 , doi : 10.1007 / s41245-017-0038-y ( springer.com [accessed April 9, 2018]).
12. ↑ Hanna Engelmeier: What is the literature in "Digital Literature"? In: Mercury . tape 71 , no. 823 , December 2017, p. 31-45 .
13. ↑ Publisher website : Uncreative Writing. Retrieved April 9, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Metz, Christian: The miraculous verses of Hans-Olaf Henkel . In: FAZ . No. 147 , June 18, 2018.
15. ↑ Braun, Michael: Holy Algorithm, Pray for Us. In: tell. Retrieved May 24, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Hütt, Hans: Machines read better. In: taz. Retrieved May 24, 2020 . 
17. ^ Hannes Bajohr - ZfL Berlin. Retrieved October 3, 2017 . 
18. ^ Hannes Bajohr - Seminar for Media Studies, University of Basel. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .