Jan Christ

Jan Christopher (* 28 June 1934 as a Christian Hoffmann in Genthin ) is a German writer .

Life

Christian Hoffmann grew up in Poland during the Second World War and in East Germany after 1945. Until he fled to West Germany in 1957, he worked as an actor and bookseller in the GDR . In the Federal Republic he completed on the night school at the Pedagogical University in Goettingen a study of pedagogy . From 1962 to 1974 he was employed in the Lower Saxony school service.

Since 1974 he has been a freelance writer under the pseudonym Jan Christ and publishes narrative works, radio plays , poetry and plays . In addition to various author scholarships , Jan Christ received the City of Hamburg's Literature Prize in 1986.

While his early works were characterized by socially critical themes, the more recent works show an experimental character and are subject to a controversial reception. "The literary criticism is indecisive as to how it should get involved in the literary risk of his texts."

Jan Christ has lived in Berlin since 2005 .

Works

• Asphalt grounds . Reinbek near Hamburg 1976.
• Let's move the dogs or talk to Brokdorf . Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• The morning in the country . Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• The landscape contractor . Klagenfurt 1984.
• Drop shadow . Klagenfurt 1988.
• Glass . Klagenfurt 1990.
• Smoky script . Klagenfurt 1991.
• Wienzeile . Klagenfurt 1993.
• Anna Wentscher. Novel . Stuttgart 1995.
• Loss . Klagenfurt 1995.
• Kleist fictional . Klagenfurt 1999.
• The house walker. 56 miniatures . Bremen 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Köbel: Jan Christ , essay, critical lexicon for contemporary German literature , in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Christ in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Jan Christ at Perlentaucher.de
• Text sample from "Drop Shadow"
• Text sample from "Kleist fictional"
• Text sample: Jan Christ on the visual work of Hans Wesker