Jan Christophersen

Jan Christophersen (* 1974 in Flensburg ) is a German writer .

life and work

Jan Christophersen grew up in Flensburg and graduated from high school there . From 1996 to 1997 he studied German, philosophy and general and comparative literature at the University of Leipzig . From 1998 to 2002 he studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . He received several grants, including a. a residency scholarship in the artist village Schöppingen and in the monastery Cismar as well as a scholarship from the Academy of Arts in Berlin . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

His first novel, Schneetage , was published in 2009 and is about a family story that takes place against the backdrop of the snow disaster of 1978/79 in a (fictional) German-Danish border town called “Vidtoft”. The novel was awarded the Buddenbrookhaus debut prize. The jury justified its decision with the “successful combination of different time levels.” He “succeeded in creating a coherent picture of the North German mentality in sparse and laconic language.” The FAZ characterized the work as a “calm, Frisian bitter and largely humorless novel Home and father search ”. His second novel, Echo , was published in 2014, takes place in Christophersen's birthplace and hometown of Flensburg and tells of "leaving and staying at home."

Christophersen is married to the writer Mareike Krügel and lives with his family near Kappeln.

Publications

• Nobody is left behind . In: Muschelhaufen , annual journal for literature and graphics, No. 42, Viersen 2002, ISSN  0085-3593
• The good believers . Narrative. In: brick. Hamburg Yearbook for Literature No. 9 . 2004/2005. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 3-935549-90-3
• Snow days . Roman, mareverlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86648-106-0
• Echo . Roman, mareverlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 3-86648-204-3
• A decent person. Roman, mareverlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86648-607-2

editor

• An extra splendid sea summer evening. Eighteen stories with salt water . Anthology, mareverlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86648-173-2

Awards

• 2009: Debut Prize of the Buddenbrookhaus

Literature and Sources

• Frank Fingerhuth: Snow days . In: NDR culture . Broadcast on February 17, 2009
• Martin Halter: The stranded in the north . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 6, 2009
• Günter Helmes : Beyond this side: Offside? Borderline experiences in Jan Christophersen's provincial novel “Snow Days” (2009) . In: Robert Laghanke (Ed.): Language, Literature, Space. Festgabe for Willy Diercks . Bielefeld 2015, pp. 75–98. ISBN 978-3-89534-867-9
• Petra Schellen: About living with doubt . In: Daily newspaper from April 3, 2009

Web links

• Author's website
• Literature by and about Jan Christophersen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ruth Bender: A conversation with Jan Christophersen Loose ends and new beginnings. In: Kiel News . February 27, 2014, accessed July 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Martin Halter: Jan Christophersen: Schneetage Why find when you can search? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 6, 2009, accessed July 18, 2016 . 
3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 5, 2009, page 35
4. ↑ ^{a b} Buddenbrookhaus debut prize: Jan Christophersen awarded. n-tv , October 25, 2009, accessed July 18, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Martin Halter: The Stranded of the North . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 6, 2009, page 35