Jan Fischer (Author)

Jan Fischer (* 1983 in Bremen ) is a German-French author , journalist and essayist .

Life

Fischer grew up between Bremen and Toulouse . He studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim , where he gave seminars on ethnographic writing and literature as a performance . He writes prose , essays and journalistic texts. Fischer was head of the cultural policy department at the online children's book portal Librikon , also editor of the online magazine Subpool and wrote for the online magazine lit08 . He has published articles in fluter , Tagesspiegel , Zeit Campus and Spiegel Online .

In 2008 and 2009 he performed together with the authors Marcel Maas , Tilman Strasser and Lino Wirag as the literary boy group "Text, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll". Together with Alexandra Müller , he staged the literary performances “Zum Glück ist das Plastik” (2006) and “How to make a damn good mixtape ” as an author collective “FischMüll aka kubikmeta” . A Homage ”(2007). In 2011 and 2012, Fischer qualified for the finals of the world championships in air guitar playing in Oulu, Finland . Fischer was a co-founder and performer in the aerial rock opera "Four versus Hellfire". In the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 seasons he was the dramaturgical director of the “night bar” series of events at the Theater für Niedersachsen in Hildesheim. In 2015 he founded the online magazine Zebrabutter with media scientist Merlin Schumacher. Since December 2019 the editor of the website of the game critics award is Game of the Year .

As a freelance journalist and author, Fischer writes regularly for , among others, nachtkritik.de , the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung as well as for the bookazine WASD and various online and print media.

Publications

"Text, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll": Lino Wirag, Jan Fischer, Marcel Maas, Tilman Strasser (Hamburg, 2013)

Essays

• From two worlds: loose notes on the relationship between children's and adult books . Autumnus , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938531-06-8
• When I was young there were only 150 Pokémon . Autumnus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938531-60-0
• Comic plus X. Notes on the outline of the graphic novel. Autumnus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938531-29-7
• Ready. How I grew up with digital games. Hanser , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25505-0
• Railway station. mikrotext , Berlin, 2018, ISBN 978-3-944543-67-3

Cultural journalism

• 120 percent. Lan Böhm and her neighborhood in: Profile! - Generation P views . Glück and Schiller, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-938404-09-4
• Jan Fischer u. a .: Across the mainland. A prosanovela . edition leaseholder house, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-938404-22-5
• Magic from Schrödinger's cylinder. A note on Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barres boulevard reports and “The feet hurt before that.” An interview with the journalist Andreas Altmann in: NON-FICTION. Arsenal of the other genres Hannover, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86525-137-4
• Scrap metal. Or: The story continues on Facebook. in: status messages. Writing in Facebook , Verlag Katrin Blumenkamp, ​​2010 ISBN 978-3-9810685-9-7

With "Text, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll"

• Germany's text top model . conradverlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811490-2-9
• Text, drugs & rock 'n' roll: unplugged . conradverlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811490-0-5

prose

• Empty times. autumnus-Verlag, Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3964480293

• Audrey and Ariane . mikrotext, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944543-40-6
• Your pixel heart . mikrotext, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944543-23-9
• Farm dogs in clou. Reading books for young people , autumnus-verlag, Berlin, ISSN  2191-1096
• Under the towers behind the city in: Bella triste No. 32, 2012, ISSN  1618-1727
• Feverish dream of Neo-Tokyo in: polar. Politics | Theory | Everyday Life No. 12, 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39609-5

Editions

• Old friends. Heroes of our childhood Glück & Schiller, Hildesheim 2005. ISBN 3-938404-02-7 .
• Have a nice drink in Hildesheim: 33 site visits . edition leaseholder house, Hildesheim 2008. ISBN 978-3-941392-00-7
• Air Guitar Heroes. From playing the air guitar Verlag Katrin Blumenkamp, ​​2012. ISBN 978-3-942958-09-7
• Something to do with writing. Graduated authors in the profession microtext, 2014. ISBN 978-3-944543-15-4

theatre

• M - Station theater for Michaelis 2010 World premiere on June 5, 2010 on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Hildesheim's Michaeliskirche
• The rower's little brother (translation) World premiere on September 24, 2010 in Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin

Awards

• 2006 M94.5 house poet
• 2006 literature prize from Maxi magazine
• 2007 scholarship holder 14th Schillertage Mannheim
• 2009 finalist U mag literary award; Scholarship holder of the 16th Schillertage Mannheim; 3rd place 6th German air guitar championships
• 2010 3rd place 7th German air guitar championships

Web links

• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Jan Fischer's blog about a hike from Toulouse to Bordeaux in summer 2009 on Fluter.de )
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Text, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll )
• Jan Fischer author profile at the title culture magazine
• Jan Fischer's blog
• Jan Fischer with zebra butter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cover culture magazine : Jan Fischer: Unter Bekloppten. From the 2011 Air Guitar Championship in Oulu , August 29, 2011
2. ↑ five masterful air guitarists to the world final ( Memento from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://www.airguitarworldchampionships.com/en/event/blog/2012/five-air-guitarists-clear-the-dark-horses-qualifying-round
4. ↑ Zebra Butter - A grassroots democratic, experimental online magazine. In: re: publica. Retrieved April 26, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.