Irvine Welsh

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Irvine Welsh reads one of his new short stories at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2004).

Irvine Welsh (born September 27, 1958 in Leith , Edinburgh , Scotland ) is a British writer.

Welsh became famous with his first novel Trainspotting , which describes the experiences of a group of young Scots in Edinburgh, which were shaped by drugs, unemployment and crime. In particular, the detailed - and criticized as glorifying - description of heroin consumption provoked and made the book and later its film adaptation by the director Danny Boyle , in which Welsh can be seen in a supporting role as a drug dealer, to great successes. The novel has now achieved cult status.

Life

Welsh was born in Edinburgh in 1958, the son of a dock worker. He left school at 16, then tried his hand at TV technician and similar jobs. In the late 1970s he appeared on the London punk scene as a guitarist and singer. After several short prison stays for minor offenses, Welsh tried his hand at real estate brokerage for a while, until he finally returned to Edinburgh in the late 1980s, where he completed a management degree at Heriot-Watt University . After the great success of Trainspotting in the mid-1990s, he focused on writing. He was married from 1984 to 2003, performs regularly as a house music DJ and lives in Dublin .

subjects

Welsh's central themes are social lack of opportunity, drug addiction, football, hooligans , repressed homosexuality , the rise and fall of social housing, and questions about a Scottish identity from the 1960s to the present day.

Irvine Welsh (2006)

style

Irvine Welsh often writes in the Scottish dialect , transcribing dialects phonetically for it and ignoring traditional orthographic methods. However, the German translations do not reflect this stylistic component of his work.

Welsh likes to work with the same arsenal of characters in his novels and stories - for example, the main characters from Trainspotting reappear with brief guest appearances in Acid House , Ecstasy and Marabou Stork Nightmares , later also with larger appearances in glue , while characters from glue then reappear appear in Porno and Dead Men's Trousers again , or the main character in Crime , the cop Lennox, had already appeared in Bastard ten years earlier .

Works

Books

  • 1993: Trainspotting (novel)
  • 1994: The Acid House (short stories)
  • 1995: Marabou Stork Nightmares (novel)
  • 1996: Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (short stories)
    • Ecstasy - three romances with chemical additives , German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-462-02594-5
  • 1998: Filth (novel)
  • 2001: Glue (novel)
    • Glue , German by Clara Drechsler; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-462-03091-4
  • 2002: Porn (novel)
  • 2006: The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (novel)
    • The bed stories of the master chefs , German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-462-03983-2
  • 2008: If You Liked School, You'll Love Work (short stories)
    • Then work straight away , German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-462-04085-2
  • 2008: Crime (novel)
    • Crime , German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-462-04334-1
  • 2009: Reheated Cabbage ( short stories)
  • 2012: Skagboys (novel)
  • 2014: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (novel)
    • The sex life of Siamese twins , German by Stephan Glietsch; Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-453-26967-5
  • 2015: A Decent Ride (novel)
  • 2016: The Blade Artist (novel)
  • 2018: Dead Men's Trousers (novel)

Plays

  • Trainspotting , German by Peter Torberg, S. Fischer Theaterverlag
  • You'll Have Had Your Hole , German by Peter Torberg, “I have finished”, S. Fischer Theaterverlag

Scripts

  • 1998: The Acid House
  • 1999: Dockers (with Jimmy McGovern; TV film)
  • 2005: Bad Blood (with Peter Cummings, Kyle Leydier and Roger Paul)
  • 2007: Wedding Belles (with Dan Cavanagh; TV film)
  • 2007: Nuts (short film)
  • 2009: Good Arrows (with Dean Cavanagh)

Films as a director

  • 2007: Nuts (short film; produced by Emer Martin )
  • 2008: Good Arrows (with Helen Grace)

Film adaptations

  • 1996: Trainspotting (Director: Danny Boyle)
  • 1998: The Acid House (Director: Paul McGuigan)
  • 2003: Dose (Direction: Philip John)
  • 2011: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (Director: Rob Heydon)
  • 2013: Drecksau (Direction: Jon S. Baird)
  • 2017: T2 Trainspotting (Director: Danny Boyle)

Web links

Commons : Irvine Welsh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contemporary Scottish Fictions: Film, Television and the Novel, by Duncan J. Petrie. Edinburgh University Press, 2004; p. 101-102.
personal data
SURNAME Welsh, Irvine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Leith , Edinburgh, Scotland