Jan Boettcher

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Jan Böttcher (2010)

Jan Böttcher (* 1973 in Lüneburg ) is a German writer and musician .

Life

He studied German and Scandinavian literature in Stockholm and Berlin and has been working as a writer and musician in Berlin since 1993. In 1997, together with Basti Windisch and Peter Herzau, he founded the band Herr Nilsson , which released four CDs on the label KOOK , which he co-founded . In 2008 his solo album from the other end of the hall was released , also on KOOK . Böttcher also appeared regularly as a songwriter afterwards, but works primarily as a writer. In his early novels and stories, he illuminates adolescence sometimes autobiographically ( Lina or: Das kalte Moor ), sometimes contemporary ( Nachglow takes place in the former GDR restricted area on the Elbe), and also very presently ( Das Lied von Do und Lassen ist ein School novel with a digital note). Böttcher's prose uses the means of realistic storytelling and is very interested in social systems and milieus. The present is captured less by typical, simplistic figure constellations than by the demands and excessive demands of the figures in private and professional fields. The novel Y from 2016 is set in Hamburg and Pristina and tells of the impossible love between a Kosovar Albanian art activist and a German computer game designer. In the spring of 2018, the novel Das Kaff, a survey of the north German province, will be published , a scenic round about an architect who is forced to return to his hometown.

In 2015 his song translations by Ian Curtis ( So This Is Permanence by Rowohlt Verlag) were published. Jan Böttcher is an active member of the German national football team ( Autonama ).

Awards

Works

  • Lina or: the cold moor . 1st edition. Kookbooks, Idstein 2003, ISBN 3-937445-01-3 ( short story).
  • The creeper . Kookbooks, Idstein 2004, ISBN 3-937445-08-0 (audio book read by the author).
  • Money or life . 1st edition. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-87134-530-2 (novel).
  • Money or life . Jumbo, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8337-1672-0 (audio book).
  • Afterglow . 1st edition. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-87134-609-5 (novel).
  • From the other end of the hall . Kook (Broken Silence), July 4, 2008 (audio CD).
  • The song of doing and not doing . 1st edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-00658-7 (novel).
  • Of Sascha Weidner and January Hooper's only true experiences at sea and on land, on horseback and on foot, as brand new written in the Lower Saxon countries and Bremen this year in war and in peace, in the air and photographed by themselves . 1st edition. Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049834-3 (text and photography).
  • Y . 1st edition. Structure, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-351-03640-9 (novel).
  • The dump . 1st edition. Structure, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03716-1 (novel).

literature

  • Annika Scheidemann, Günter Helmes (ed.): On the meaningless, meaningful and meaningful in (teacher) existence. About Martin Kranich's search movements in “Teachers' Room” by Markus Orths and Immanuel Mauss in “The Song of Doing and Leaving” by Jan Böttcher . In: Günter Helmes, Günter Rinke (eds.): Clever, clever, failed. The contemporary image of schools and teachers in literature and media . Igel-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86815-713-0 , pp. 13-26.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 Böttcher, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg