Jacob Arjouni

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Jakob Arjouni (born October 8, 1964 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 17, 2013 in Berlin ; real name Jacob Benjamin Bothe ) was a German writer .

Life

The son of the playwright Hans Günter Michelsen and Ursula Bothe, who was then working for the Suhrkamp-Theaterverlag , later took over the Moroccan family name from the music manager Kadisha Arjouni, with whom he was married for a few years. In 1985 , when he was 21, he published his first novel Happy Birthday, Turk! and thus the first of the Kayankaya - detective novels , which have now been published in more than ten other languages. At the same time he wrote his first play The Garages . In 1987 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Youth Theater Prize for Nazim pushes off . In 1992 he received the German Crime Prize for Ein Mann ein Mord .

Jakob Arjouni lived in Berlin for several years during his studies, in the meantime stayed in Ginestas in the Aude (France) department and last lived again in Berlin, where he died of cancer on the night of January 17, 2013 at the age of 48. He found his final resting place in the state-owned cemetery in Heerstrasse in Berlin-Westend .

Arjouni about Arjouni

“Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1964, grew up in Frankfurt and Oberroden . At ten at a boarding school in the Odenwald . Twelve for the first time, Red Harvest 'by Hammett read - did not understand everything, but enthusiastic. From fourteen to eighteen regular trips to Frankfurt's train station district for pool billiards . Sergio Leone Films Seen. After graduation to Montpellier , southern France. Aborted studies. Two and a half years of work as a waiter, swimsuit and peanut seller. First novel written, 'Happy Birthday, Turk!', And first play, 'Die Garagen'. At twenty-two he went to an acting school in Berlin. Aborted quickly. Studied at the Free University . Even faster. Hugo , Faulkner and Irmgard Keun read. Written novel 'Mehr Bier', play 'Nazim deports', novel 'A man, a murder'. Profession found. Move to Paris. Play, 'Edelmann's Daughter'. Back to Berlin. Roman, 'Magic Hoffmann'. "

Topics of his works

Arjouni's works mostly deal with contemporary problems and are set in environments that were familiar to the author. The protagonist of his crime novels, the detective Kemal Kayankaya, lives in Arjouni's hometown of Frankfurt am Main. Kayankaya, although raised as an adopted child in a German family, was often confronted with racism due to his Turkish appearance , which he exposed with a lot of puns and sarcasm. Kismet , also a Kayankaya thriller, is about the Yugoslav civil war. In Magic Hoffmann , Homework and Edelmann's Daughter , increasing nationalism, the suppression of history and anti-Semitism in reunified Germany are discussed.

His book Chez Max is set in Paris in the year 2064. In this novel, Arjouni developed the vision of a society in which, as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, everyone is monitored as a precaution so that security is guaranteed. The scenario is reminiscent of that of George Orwell's 1984 (novel) .

In the novel Saint Eddy , Arjouni's ninth book, published in 2009, the author broke away from the gravity of his subjects and wrote a picaresque novel . It is about "246 floating, lightly staged pages of German screwball prose that read like a film in words: fast-paced and funny," said reviewer Peter Henning of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Others

The release of Happy Birthday, Turk! took place under the surname of his then wife. For a long time it was rumored that Arjouni, like his hero Kayankaya, was "born in Frankfurt in 1964 as the son of Turkish guest workers". For example, it is in the CD booklet for the radio play Happy Birthday, Turk! from Hörverlag .

The novel The Holy Eddy was produced as a radio play by Deutschlandradio Kultur in 2010 under the direction of Judith Lorentz ; the 56-minute crime thriller audio version was first broadcast on August 9, 2010.

Works

Kayankaya crime novels

Jakob Arjounis grave stele in the Heerstraße cemetery

Plays

  • The garages. First performance in 1988.
  • Nazim deports. First performance in 1990.
  • Edelmann's daughter. Diogenes, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-257-06091-2 .

Novels

Short stories

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jugendtheaterpreis-bw.de
  2. ↑ Sandra Kegel: On the death of Jakob Arjounis: A question of morality. In: FAZ . January 17, 2013, accessed January 17, 2013 .
  3. ^ Jacob Benjamin Bothe alias writer Jakob Arjouni. on: trauer.sueddeutsche.de
  4. ↑ Self-description in Diogenes
  5. ↑ Peter Henning: love story, robber pistol, Berlin novel: Jakob Arjounis ravishing rogue book "The holy Eddy" . In: The time . online, February 13, 2009.
  6. ↑ Saint Eddy. (Ursendung) In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . August 9, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Arjouni, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bothe, Jakob Benjamin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2013
Place of death Berlin