Jan Decker

Jan Decker (born November 9, 1977 in Kassel ) is a German writer .

Life

Jan Decker was born the son of a German and an Austrian. He attended the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium in Würzburg and stated that his career aspiration was a writer in a high school newspaper. With Martin Maria Eschenbach , Carsten Kurpanek and Nico Manger, he founded the post-grunge band Sandmann in 1995 in Höchberg near Würzburg. While training to be a bookseller , Decker learned how the book market works. He first studied German and philosophy in Hanover and Greifswald before turning exclusively to writing.

He studied from 2004 to 2008 at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Since then, Decker has written plays with world premieres at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and Theater Vorpommern as well as numerous radio plays and features . He has published dramas, short prose, essays and occasionally poetry in anthologies and magazines.

His book Eckermann or the Birth of Psychoanalysis from the Spirit of Goethe was published in 2012 with drawings by Kay Voigtmann . Decker received positive reviews for this monologue about Goethe's “eternal assistant”.

Jan Decker had lectureships at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . He teaches radio plays, radio features and creative writing at the Department of German Studies at the University of Osnabrück . In 2014 he presented a didactic guide to radio play with the radio play workshop practical guide .

Jan Decker publishes regularly on the culture pages of the daily newspaper Junge Welt and can also be found on Deutschlandradio and other media.

Decker is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

• Best author at the International Leipzig Radio Drama Competition 2008
• Radio play grant from the German Literature Fund 2010
• Radio play grant from the Filmstiftung NRW 2010
• Scholarship from the Schleswig-Holstein Künstlerhaus Eckernförde 2011
• Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony 2011
• Spreewald Literature Scholarship 2012
• Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize 2012
• Scholarship from the Hanseatic City of Rostock 2014
• Grant from Künstlerhaus Lukas for Iceland 2015
• Grant from Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2015
• Writer in Residence, Franz Edelmaier Residence for Literature and Human Rights, Merano 2016
• Hessian Literature Scholarship Emilia-Romagna 2017
• Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize 2017 for the novel The Long Slumber
• Residence grant from the State of Saxony-Anhalt in the Künstlerhaus Salzwedel 2018

Works

Individual publications

• Sibiu blues. Sibiu Blues . Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-937101-99-6
• Beelitz Heilstätten. Tragic monologue and comic epilogue . VAT Verlag André Thiele, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940884-18-3
• The knacker. Essay / poems / prose . FIXPOETRY.Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942890-07-6
• Eckermann or the birth of psychoanalysis from the spirit of Goethe. Theater monologue in three pictures with drawings by Kay Voigtmann . Edition Ornament, Bucha 2012, ISBN 978-3-936455-99-1
• Notes on a Koeppen radio play . SuKuLTuR Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95566-020-8
• Practical guide to radio play workshop . Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-12-316191-9
• Ahlers and the others. Christian Geissler's radio play . Trottoir Noir Verlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-945849-02-6
• The long slumber. Novel . Edition 21, Thun 2017, ISBN 978-3-9524467-5-1
• Moser's return. Short novel of a long life . Meinders & Elstermann Verlag, Belm 2020, ISBN 978-3-88926-008-6

Plays

• Cash drop! . UA Theater Vorpommern 2006
• Back swimmer . UA State Theater Nuremberg 2009
• Beelitz Heilstätten. Tragic monologue and comic epilogue . Premiere of the Cammerspiele Leipzig 2013

Radio plays

• er.ich . Author production 2005
• Last pictures. Radio play based on a text by Christoph Schwarz . Author production 2007
• Hachiko . SWR 2008
• Amaryllis . SWR 2009
• I breathed a sigh of relief in the bellies of the cities . SWR 2009
• How the fifth column of Moscow picked up the instruments . SWR 2010
• Black box . WDR 2010
• Hotel California. An acoustic road trip . rbb 2010
• The great world tour . SWR 2011
• The big coup on Lake Biwas . SWR 2011
• Catfish peppers . SWR 2012
• Mutations. Original radio play for smartphones . HfG Karlsruhe 2011/2012
• Schifoan . SWR 2013
• The leopards are roaring again . SWR 2013
• Jockey Germany . SWR 2014
• Gua Nim Washoe . SWR 2015
• At Betty's . SRF 2015
• Winterswijk . SWR 2016
• The Bergfex. Luis Trenker without make-up . rbb 2017
• Fado fatal . NDR 2017
• What do you know about junk bugs? . SWR 2017
• Cold Sophie . NDR 2019
• Beast Angerstein . SWR 2019

Features

• Jaco Pastorius' walk through the snow from Rheidt to Havona. About the last tour of a jazz legend . DKultur 2011
• Orient and Occident. Friedrich Engels, the inventor of Marxism, and my great-grandfather Wilhelm Decker, the inventor of the sewing button . DKultur 2013
• My digital me . MDR 2014
• Be left-handed. From life the other way around . DLF 2015
• Erich solves the problems. The writer and his "almost second home" Osnabrück . DKultur 2015
• Texas Pattis Carnival Party . Dlf Culture 2017
• Ribbon salad, lovingly prepared. The cassette between nostalgia and renaissance . Dlf 2018
• My father, the border guard . SWR 2018
• From pink to blue. The voice of Joni Mitchell . Dlf Culture 2018

Libretti

• Japanese miniatures . Music: Caspar de Gelmini . Premiere 2012 Konzerthaus Berlin (Work in Progress under the direction of Gerhardt Müller-Goldboom)
• LEIPZIGNOIR 1914 . Music: Moritz Eggert , Caspar de Gelmini , Fabian Russ, Annette Schlünz . Premiere 2014 UT Connewitz Leipzig (Free Ensemble under the direction of Gerhardt Müller-Goldboom)

Reports

• How do we want to love . Dlf 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Decker in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• Short biography and information on Jan Decker's work at Literaturport
• Entries on Jan Decker in the HörDat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dies indipendentiae . Abitur newspaper of the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium born in 1995/97.
2. ↑ Light sense . CD 1998 (recorded and mixed by Sandmann and Freddy Setz in the recording studio in Würzburg).
3. ↑ Niklas Kuschkowitz: 10 questions to Jan Decker. In: STADTBLATT Osnabrück (12/2018), bvw Verlag GmbH, p. 5.
4. ^ Jan Decker: Premiere at the State Theater in Nuremberg . In: Main-Post , December 7, 2008, accessed on July 17, 2016.
5. ↑ Kassensturz! Play by Jan Decker. Theater Vorpommern in Greifswald and Stralsund , archived from the original on March 4, 2014 ; Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Dietmar Jacobsen: Goethe's parrot on the couch . Review on literaturkritik.de , May 14, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2016.
7. ↑ Jan Decker at Horlemann Verlag , accessed on July 17, 2016.
8. ↑ Jan Decker on the website of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , accessed on January 19, 2018.
9. ^ Lecturer page from Jan Decker at the University of Osnabrück, accessed on July 17, 2016.
10. ↑ See for example: There is peace over all peaks. My look at the literature of Switzerland, in: Junge Welt, 6 July 2019.
11. ↑ A special piece of earth. Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung , October 27, 2015, page 5.