Jörg Bong

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Jörg Bong (artist name: Jean-Luc Bannalec , born February 17, 1966 in Bad Godesberg ) is a German literary scholar, editor , publisher, editor, author, publicist and photographer. Most recently - until June 2019 - he was Managing Director of S. Fischer Verlage. He then remained connected to the company as the curator of the S. Fischer Foundation . Since July 2019 he has been working as a freelance author and publicist in Frankfurt am Main and in Brittany. Under the pseudonym Jean-Luc Bannalec, he has been writing detective novels about the character of Commissioner Dupin since 2012, for which he has received several awards.

Life

Jörg Bong lives in Frankfurt am Main and in the southern part of the Finistère department in Brittany .

Studies and academic career

Bong studied German, philosophy, history and psychoanalysis at the University of Bonn and the University of Frankfurt am Main . He was a student assistant with Norbert Altenhofer, then a research assistant with Volker Bohn and Silvia Bovenschen . He did his doctorate in Frankfurt on the concept of fantasy and aesthetic questions between the late Enlightenment and early romanticism, especially in the work of Ludwig Tieck . From 1992 to 1996 he was in charge of the Frankfurt poetics lectures . In 1995 and 1996, Bong was the project manager of the postgraduate course in book and media practice at the University of Frankfurt a. M. From 1996 he worked as a freelancer for the Critical Lexicon for contemporary German literature and for text + kritik , edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold.

Publishing clerk and photographer

From 1997 onwards, Bong worked for S. Fischer Verlag for more than 22 years , initially as assistant to the owner and publisher Monika Schoeller, then as editor for German-language literature, and later as program manager. In 2002 he took over the program management of S. Fischer Verlag and in 2008 all of the associated publishers. These include the Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Scherz , Krüger, FJB and the children's and youth book publishers KJB, Duden, Sauerländer and Meyers. From 2014 to June 2019, Bong acted as the publishing director and spokesman for the management. Under his aegis, the series “Fischer Klassik”, “Fischer Wissenschaft”, “Fischer Geschichte”, “Fischer Jugendbuch” (FJB) and “Fischer Taschenbibliothek” were brought into life. In addition, Bong was co-editor of the literary magazine Neue Rundschau , and from 2008 to 2010 he was a member of the jury of the “Kulturstiftung des Bundes”.

From October to December 2018, the Heussenstamm Gallery in Frankfurt presented a selection of 22 of his photographs in a solo exhibition. In November 2019, an exhibition with 27 photographs opened in the STUDIO LESON Frankfurt am Main . In October 2019 a photo book with 112 Bretagne photographs was published by the Cologne publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch .

Success as a crime writer

Since 2012, Jörg Bong has published nine detective novels under the name Jean-Luc Bannalec , all of which are set in Brittany . At its center is the commissioner Georges Dupin , who has been transferred from Paris to Concarneau in Brittany . Bong's pseudonym was retained for several years. In June 2020 he gave interviews to the German press for the first time as Jean-Luc Bannalec, u. a. in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the " Brigitte ".

For many months, all crime novels were at the top of the bestseller list of Der Spiegel magazine . In the German-speaking area alone, over 4 million copies were sold by May 2020. The books have now been translated into 14 languages. In France they appear in Presses de la Cité and Livre de poche .

Some of the nine Bretagne crime novels were filmed for Das Erste (ARD) and broadcast as part of the Thursday crime series under the title Kommissar Dupin . Producers wear Mathias Lösel and Iris Kiefer from filmpool fiction . The films reached up to 6.74 million viewers when they were first broadcast and achieved market shares of up to 20.6%. France 3 showed the series from summer 2018 on Sunday evenings in France. There, too, the audience received her well. Up to 4.9 million viewers followed the respective broadcasts, which corresponded to market shares of 20.5%. The series was broadcast with similar success in Italy on RAI 2, in Spain on TVE and in Switzerland, Austria and some Eastern European countries. In total, it was sold in 40 countries, including the USA.

In June 2014 ZDF showed a report on the locations of the first two volumes on the trail of the author Jean-Luc Bannalec: Coasts, Artists, Inspectors. In the footsteps of Commissaire Dupin in Finistère . In October 2017, ARTE ran a report on the crime series: "Mordsidyll - In der Bretagne with Jean-Luc Bannalec".

Honors

In August 2016 Jörg Bong received the “Patron of Brittany” award for his services to the region. It was awarded on behalf of the Regional Council of Brittany and presented by Anne Gallo. The purpose of the certificate signed by Jean-Yves Le Drian is: “... à rendre hommage, à travers le titre de“ Mécène de Bretagne ”, aux femmes et aux hommes qui contribuent dans le cadre de leurs activités au rayonnement culturel, touristique et économique de la Bretagne dans le monde. ”(Eng .:" ... with the title "Patron of Brittany" to honor the men and women who, in the course of their work, contribute to the cultural, tourist and economic reputation of Brittany in the world contribute.")

In December 2018, Bong became an honorary member of the Literary Academy of Bretagne and the Pays de Loire ("Membre d`honneur de l`Académie littéraire de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire"). He also received the “Médaille de la ville” de Nantes, and in July 2019 the Association of Breton crime authors from Finistère accepted “L'Assassin Habite Dans Le 29” Bong as an honorary member. In September 2020, the “Ministry of Finance and Europe” of the Saarland will award him the “Prize of the Hom Buch book fair for Franco-German relations”.

Works (selection)

Under his own name

  • "The Topicality of Romanticism", panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Roland Borgards, June 23rd, 2020, Schloss Elmau, “Days of Romanticism”.
  • Foreword to: “The most beautiful Breton legends”, published together with Tilman Spreckelsen, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020.
  • “Maximum European solidarity”, interview with “Young European Federalists”, May 11, 2020.
  • "Inoculate yourself against the virus of barbarism". Essay on "Spiegel online", April 3rd, 2020 .
  • "Corona Bonds Now. An Open Letter to the Federal Government ” , initiated together with Regina Schilling and Helge Malchow.
  • “Play forms of narration”, an evening together with Christoph Ransmayr in the Frankfurter Literaturhaus as part of the Frankfurt poetics lectures, conception and moderation, March 9, 2020.
  • “Guardian for Time”, obituary for Monika Schoeller, in: Die Zeit October 23, 2019.
  • Co-editor of the cultural magazine Die Neue Rundschau . S. Fischer Verlag, 2007 to 2019, founded in 1890.
  • Foreword to: Simenon: Tout Maigret, Tome 9 (Maigret hésite - L'ami d'enfance de Maigret - Maigret et le tueur - Maigret et le marchand de vin and others). Omnibus, Paris 2019.
  • “90 ans de Maigret”, a panel discussion with John Simenon and the Simenon editor Jean-François Merle about Maigret. Espace culturelle de Concarneau 19.7.2019 and participation in the “25e édition du festival du Chien Jaune”.
  • Epilogue to: Georges Simenon: Maigret has fun. Kampa Verlag 2019.
  • “The End of the World” (by Olivier Messiaen). In the series My Favorite Piece by the Alte Oper and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Audience discussion with Prof. Ernst August Klötzke about the 5th movement ("Louange à l`Éternité de Jesus") of the piece "Quatuor pour la fin du temps." April 21, 2018.
  • A powerful weapon for democracy. Article about the importance of the book in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on January 2, 2018. Also: FAZ-Online.
  • Thinking as a game. Obituary for Silvia Bovenschen . In: Die Zeit , No. 45/2017, November 2. Also: ZEIT-ONLINE.
  • German Leitkultur - We are far too cautious. Guest article Spiegel online , June 2017.
  • “Look at the sea, it comforts you.” About a picture by Max Beckmann. In: The Journal of Villa Grisebach 7/2017, edited by Florian Illies.
  • The German “Leitkultur”, the “German” and the “Non-German”. A plea. In: Neue Rundschau , Frankfurt 2017.
  • Global Crises: The Salvation? Europe! Guest contribution Spiegel online .
  • Jörg, this is happiness. Obituary for Roger Willemsen . In: Die Zeit, No. 7/2016.
  • Offensive philology. Lecture at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University as part of a lecture series on the 100th birthday of the university, held on May 17, 2014. In: Literary Studies, German and Romance Studies on the 100th anniversary of the university. Edited by Frank Estelmann and Bernd Zegowitz. Göttingen 2016/2017.
  • The most beautiful places in Hesse. Four recommendations. In: Zeitmagazin No. 23/2015, June 24, 2015.
  • Are We Really Monkeys? In: The Lexicon of Open Questions. Edited by Jürgen Kaube and Jörn Laakmann. JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2015.
  • The animal that doesn't want to be. Interview with the anatomist and evolutionary biologist Carsten Niemitz. In: Neue Rundschau, 4/2006 (Fischer Verlag).
  • Foreword and editing together with Florian Illies of: Kleines deutschesverzeichnis. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-036800-2 .
  • as publisher (and epilogue): Frankfurt: a reading seduction (a Frankfurt anthology). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-65001-9 .
  • as editor: The Rhine - a seduction to read (a Rhine anthology). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • as ed. with Roland Spahr, Oliver Vogel: “But the memory of it”: Materials on the work of Marlene Streeruwitz . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16987-0 .
  • 1996–2002: freelancer for the critical lexicon for contemporary German literature and for text + kritik , edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold.
  •  “Vom absolutly absentuten”, foreword and editing together with Silvia Bovenschen : Rituals of everyday life. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-10-003511-9 .
  • Text frenzy: poetological inversions of " Late Enlightenment " and " Early Romanticism " in Ludwig Tieck . Frankfurt contributions to German studies; 35. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1117-1 (also Diss. Frankfurt 1999).
  • as ed. Curses. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14754-9 .
  • The dissolution of disharmonies: to convey society, nature and aesthetics in the writings of Karl Philipp Moritz . Analyzes and documents; 32. Lang Verlag, Frankfurt et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-46150-X .
  • The impersonal "it" and the dissolution of the "I" - to Karl Philipp Moritz. In: Psyche 6 (1994), Stuttgart.
  • with Martin Spieles: Europe and European Union. Cologne 1994.
  •  "Things that don't remind you of anything". Urs Widmer's phantoms of a text that never comes. In: Text + Criticism , 1998.
  • “The reader writer.” A story by Wolfgang Hilbig . In: Das Paradox, ed. v. Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow. Metzler Verlag, 1999.
  • Let's leave literature free. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 20, 2000.
  • "In the dream of another mirror". The craft of the poet by Jorge Luis Borges . In: Literatures, issue 4/2009.

Under the stage name Jean-Luc Bannalec

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Jörg Bong (50) , on buchmarkt.de
  2. Jörg Bong leaves S. Fischer . buchreport.de. April 4, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  3. Jan Wiele: Jörg Bong stops . faz.net. April 4, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  4. Jörg Bong stops working at S. Fischer as managing director . spiegel.de. April 4, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  5. [_id_inhalt = 34593585 Heussenstamm-Galerie shows photographs by the artist Jörg Bong] . rankfurt.de. October 25, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  6. Isabelle Calvez: Jörg Bong alias Jean-Luc Bannalec. La Bretagne l'inspire toujours ( French ) letelegramme.fr. April 10, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  7. Breton bestseller guarantee . buchreport.de. July 6, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  8. ^ Biography of Jean-Luc Bannalec ( French ) lisez.com. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  9. The films at a glance . ARD. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  10. Shock absorbers for the "Gipfelstuermer" - Commissioner Dupin top . Abendblatt.de. April 12, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  11. Commissaire Dupin (France 3) - Le phénomène Dupin . programme-television.org. July 8, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  12. ^ Coasts, artists, commissioners . zdf.de. July 5, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  13. Mordidyll - In Brittany with Jean-Luc Bannalec . ARD. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  14. Un auteur allemand à l'honneur ( French ) bretagne.bzh. August 23, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  15. Académie littéraire de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire ( French ) academiedebretagne.com. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  16. Jörg Bong: We are much too cautious . spiegel.de. May 7, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2019.