Jan Valk

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Jan Valk (born November 4, 1978 in Ratingen ) is a German specialist in German studies , editor , translator , editor , journalist and author .

life and work

Jan Christopher Valk was born in Ratingen in 1978. After high school graduation from Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium and subsequent community service, Valk studied German and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There he obtained his master's degree in modern German literature in 2006 with his thesis on Jacques Derrida's engagement with Paul Celan .

In addition to his studies, he gained experience in publishing houses such as Aufbau-Verlag and Rowohlt Verlag , but also with radio and television companies such as Deutschlandfunk or NDR . After graduating, he worked for a year as a trainee editor at the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne . Valk then worked as a reviewer for print and online, as an editor, translator, event curator and freelance editor . In the Berlin office community, Adler & Sons, he works with other authors, editors, translators and journalists. Since 2009 he has edited numerous titles at Rowohlt Verlag, including by authors such as Tom Harper , Mary Burton, Annie Sanders, Lisa Gardner, Simon Beckett and Daniel Suarez . Since April 2015 he has been working as a lecturer for German-language literature at DuMont Buchverlag in Cologne.

Jan Valk is also the editor of Sprachgebunden , a magazine for literature, art and design founded in 2005 by Valk and Jonas Reuber with editorial offices in Cologne and Berlin , which appears once or twice a year. Published in the trade magazine u. a. Contributions by the German-speaking authors Uljana Wolf , Saša Stanišić , Thomas Pletzinger , Paulus Böhmer , Stefan Weidner , Ron Winkler , Daniela Dröscher , Felicia Zeller , Daniela Danz or Greta Granderath. As international authors were u. a. Jean Baudrillard , David Constantine, Samuel Shimon, Jovan Nikolić , Samir el-Youssef and Fadhil al-Azzawi were represented.

In 1999 Jan Valk's lyric texts were published by Martin Werhand Verlag in the Junge Lyrik series.

In 2011, Valk belonged with language-specific literature jury awarded annually since 2009 German Literature Prize Hotlist , the best German-language book from the current program of an independent publishing house from Germany , Austria or Switzerland excels.

When Rowohlt Verlag in Berlin in 2012 his translation of the novel appeared red future of the English writer Francis Spufford.

Publications (selection)

As editor

  • Language-bound: magazine for text + image. Language-bound. Paperback, Berlin: Ed. Chimera, 2006
  • China dossier. Language-bound. Edition 2, Berlin: Ed. Chimera, 2006
  • About | put. Language-bound. Edition 3, Berlin: Ed. Chimera, 2007
  • Heat. Language-bound. Edition 4, Berlin: Ed. Chimera, 2007
  • The dramaturgy of killing. Detective novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-25751-3
  • Arabic literature + art in exile. Language-bound. Edition 5, paperback, Berlin: Ed. Chimera, 2009
  • Life as a reader. Language-bound. Edition 6, Berlin: Ed. Chimera, 2012

As a feature / radio play author

  • Secret pleasure win WDR3, 2010, director: Martin Zylka, 55 min.
  • A short story by Henning John von Freyend and the shirt by Rolf Dieter WDR5, 2011, director: Axel Pleuser, 25 min.
  • Henny Dreifuss - code name: Marguerite Barbe WDR5, 2011, director: Rolf Mayer, 25 min.
  • Love the machine, hate the factory WDR3, 2013 (together with Catharina Koller), director: Robert Steudtner, 55 min.

As a poet

  • Young poetry - 50 poets. Anthology. Werhand, Melsbach 1999. ISBN 3-9806390-1-0 . Also the second, revised edition, Melsbach 2000.

As translator

literature

  • Language-bound. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2012/2013: Volume I: A – O. Volume II: P – Z., Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2012, p. 1388, ISBN 978-3-11-027790-6 , ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ., Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 1088, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 , ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ Jan Valk Biography in: Junge Lyrik , Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 1999, ISBN 3-9806390-1-0 , p. 555.
  3. ↑ Jan Valk. ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2014 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. In: WDR 3  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr3.de
  4. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Lyrikzeitung
  5. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur
  6. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Literaturhaus Frankfurt
  7. ↑ Jan Valk. ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. In: Critical Edition Freely networked in the field of literature. , 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kritische-ausgabe.de
  8. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Der Spiegel Kreativ im Kollektiv. , 2010
  9. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Rowohlt Verlag
  10. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Rowohlt Verlag
  11. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Rowohlt Verlag
  12. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Rowohlt Verlag
  13. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Rowohlt Verlag
  14. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Rowohlt Verlag
  15. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Börsenblatt
  16. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Junge Lyrik. , July 23, 2004
  17. ↑ Young lyric series: 750 poems . Martin Werhand Verlag , 2002
  18. ↑ Jan Valk. In: Pearl Diver Francis Spufford: Red Future. , Rowohlt, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Valk, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valk, Jan Christopher (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, editor, translator, editor, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratingen , Germany