Jan Stressenreuter
Jan Stressenreuter (born December 12, 1961 in Kassel ; † December 17, 2018 in Cologne ) was a German writer .
Life
Jan Stressenreuter grew up in Erkrath in the Rhineland . From 1983 on he studied Anglo-American history and English at the University of Cologne , where he completed his MA in 1990 . He then worked in the care sector for several years, and from 2004 worked as a freelance writer. He leaves behind his husband Norbert Friederichs .
Stressenreuter wrote novels and short stories. He was one of the most famous contemporary gay authors in German-speaking countries. Stressenreuter, who lived and worked in Cologne, died in December 2018, a few days after his 57th birthday. He was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 94 no. 8, garden of lights ).
Act
In his novels, Stressenreuter dealt primarily with the life of homosexual men in contemporary Germany and post-war Germany, sometimes humorously, sometimes melancholy. In Love to Love you, Baby (2002), for example, he described the coming-out of a young person in the 1970s, and in With His Eyes (2008) he addressed the situation of homosexuals in the 1950s. Guilt and forgiveness also appear again and again as complex topics in his novels. In the last decade of his life, Stressenreuter turned to another genre: 2009–2011 he published the crime series about the Cologne commissioners Maria Plasberg and Torsten Brinkhoff ( Aus Rache , 2009) ( Aus Angst , 2010) ( Aus Wut , 2011). In his novel How Jakob lost time (2013), Stressenreuter dealt with the outbreak of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, while the novel House Full of Clouds (2015) deals with the topic of Alzheimer's disease in a gay context. In 2016 “Figgn, Alda!” And Other Stories , a collection of short stories, was released. In 2017 he continued his crime series with Aus Hass . Posthumously published Because We Are Here with an afterword by his editor, Jim Baker .
Fonts
- Love to love you, baby . Querverlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89656-073-5 .
- Hold it when it falls . Querverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89656-099-9 .
- And then the sky . Querverlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89656-126-X .
- With his eyes . Querverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89656-151-0 .
- For revenge . Querverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89656-165-7 .
- Out of fear . Querverlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-89656-174-X .
- Out of anger . Querverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89656-191-6 .
- How Jacob lost time . Querverlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89656-207-4 .
- House full of clouds . Querverlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89656-231-9 .
- “Figgn, Alda!” And other stories . Querverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89656-241-8 .
- Out of hate . Querverlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89656-251-7 .
- Because we are here . Querverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89656-274-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Stressenreuter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jan Stressenreuter in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jan Stressenreuter's website
- Interview and reading with Jan Stressenreuter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Stressenreuter's memorial page. Retrieved December 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Jan Stressenreuter. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 940.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stressenreuter, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th December 2018 |
| Place of death | Cologne |