Jan Brandt (writer)

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Jan Brandt (* 1974 in Leer , East Frisia ) is a German journalist and writer .

Jan Brandt on July 23, 2019 in the Düsseldorf City Library. Reading from “A house in the country / An apartment in the city”.

Life

Jan Brandt, who grew up in Ihrhove , studied history and literature from 1995 to 2003 at the University of Cologne , Berlin and London and is a graduate of the German School of Journalism in Munich . He wrote his master's thesis on Das Schwarze Korps , the weekly newspaper of the SS. From 1999 to 2003 he was editor of the box of literature The Outside of the Element . He writes regularly for the Berlin city magazine Zitty , the literary magazine Edit and Die Zeit .

His debut novel Gegen die Welt made him known in one fell swoop in 2011. The provincial epic traces the fall of a village in East Friesland and addresses the recent history of the old Federal Republic under the sign of change and globalization. Gegen die Welt was nominated for the German Book Prize (shortlist) 2011 and reached number 35 on the Spiegel bestseller list. The book received a lot of attention from literary criticism, as the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called it a “huge, impressive novel” - Der Spiegel even spoke of the “book of books”. The book Gegen die Welt is characterized by numerous micro- and macro-typographical peculiarities that are even significant when reading.

His second book, Death in Turin, is a travelogue that tells of a reading trip to Italy. In it, Brandt self-ironically describes the everyday life of a writer between scholarships and readings and takes a critical look at Italian culture and the German literary scene.

Brandt's book A House in the Country / An Apartment in the City describes processes of awareness that came to mind when the author reflected on his experiences, on the one hand when looking for an apartment in today's Berlin, on the other hand when dealing with memories of his great-grandfather's house in danger of being demolished.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Brandt moved to Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in 1998 and initially lived there in a simple apartment.

Works (selection)

  • Against the world . Novel. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9628-8 .
  • Death in Turin . Travel report. With illustrations by Tom Smith. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9792-6 .
  • City Without Angels - True Stories from Los Angeles . Travel reports. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9831-2 .
  • A house in the country / an apartment in the city. From someone who came back to find his old home / From someone who moved out to arrive in his new home . Reversible book. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2019 ISBN 978-3-8321-8356-1

Narratives (selection)

  • One more time. In: Martin Brinkmann , Werner Loch-Lawrence (ed.): 20 under 30. Young German authors. DVA, Stuttgart / Munich 2002.
  • Divine service for Martin Janssen. In: Jörn Morisse, Stefan Rehberger (eds.): Driving Home - Christmas stories. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • The Lightning. In: Playboy . 3/2010.
  • I am still here. In: Hauke ​​Hückstedt , Susanne Gaensheimer (Ed.): Eight Considerations II. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2016.

Essays (selection)

  • Infinite Pages - A Brief History of the Great Novels. In: Bella Triste . 32, Hildesheim 2012.
  • Second home, substitute hell. In: the hear . 1/2015, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015.
  • Homesickness for history. In: Matthias Jügler (ed.): How we want to live - texts for solidarity and freedom. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016.

editor

Awards and grants

literature

  • Jeanine Tuschling: Escapism into the extraterrestrial. The village as a post-utopian space in Arno Schmidt's “KAFF also Mare Crisium” and Jan Brandt's “Against the World”. Authoritative self-presentation under the sign of the village. In: Werner Nell, Marc Weiland (ed.): Imaginary villages. On the return of the village in literature, film and everyday life (= Rural Topographies. Vol. 1). Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2684-1 , pp. 267–284.
  • Christian Klein: "Günter Grass, you destroyed our literature". Jan Brandt's novel 'Against the World' and the Poetics of Manic Realism. In: Carsten Rhode, Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann (Hrsg.): The infinity of narration. The novel in contemporary German literature since 1989. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-977-4 , pp. 47–68.

Web links

Commons : Jan Brandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ The family website of the d'Alquen. July 8, 2008, archived from the original on July 8, 2008 ; accessed on September 8, 2016 .
  2. ^ Brandt, Jan - Vita. (No longer available online.) In: www.lyrikwelt.de. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
  3. ↑ Gegen die Welt on bestseller list , buchreport.de, accessed July 8, 2019
  4. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  5. ↑ buecher.de
  6. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: Everything has to be told - DER SPIEGEL 39/2011. In: www.spiegel.de. Retrieved August 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Natascha Geier: A house in the country / An apartment in the city , review in the NDR TV Kulturjournal on May 20, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Andreas Wirthensohn: Jan Brandt talks about loss of home and existential homelessness in times of real estate madness , WDR review on June 26, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019
  9. ↑ Jan Brandt receives shore leave scholarship , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on June 25, 2020
  10. ↑ Residence grants , Börsenblatt dated May 28, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019
  11. ↑ Jan Brandt. Prize winner 2014. Art Foundation: raum sylt quelle, accessed on October 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)