Jens Sparschuh
Jens Sparschuh (born May 14, 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , today Chemnitz ) is a German writer .
Life
Jens Sparschuh grew up in East Berlin . He passed his Abitur in Halle (Saale) and studied philosophy and logic in Leningrad from 1973 to 1978 . From 1978 to 1983 he was a research assistant at Humboldt University , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1983 . Since then he has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin . He was involved in the civil rights movement of the GDR and a member of the " New Forum ". From 1991 to 2012 he was visiting professor six times at Grinnell College in the United States .
Jens Sparschuh is the author of novels , often on topics from German history and literary history, as well as essays , poems and radio plays . For a column in the literary section of the Tagesspiegel , he wrote reviews of the latest audio books once a month for over a decade.
Jens Sparschuh is a member of the PEN Center Germany . His novels, children's books and radio plays have so far been translated into ten languages.
Prizes and awards
- Anna Seghers Prize , 1988
- War blind radio play award , 1990
- Ernst Reuter Prize , 1990
- Bremen Literature Prize , 1996
- Calwer Hermann Hesse Scholarship , 1999
- Prix Chronos , 2018
- Günter Grass Prize , 2019
Works
Books
- Epistemological and methodological investigations into the heuristic expressiveness of propositional proof terms , dissertation, Berlin 1983
- Waldwärts , Berlin 1985
- The big coup , Berlin 1987
- Plunge , Berlin 1989
- Indwendig , Winsen / Luhe 1990
- The Snow Man , Cologne 1993
- Parzival Pechvogel , Zurich (among others) 1994
- The representative seminar , Cologne 1995
- The indoor fountain , Cologne 1995
- Traces in the world desert , Lichtenfels 1996
- I thought you couldn't find us , Cologne 1997
- The beautiful Belinda and her inventor , Zurich 1997
- Lavater's mask , Cologne 1999
- The Elbe , Leipzig 2000 (together with Jörn Vanhöfen and Walter Kempowski )
- Stinkstiefel , Zurich 2000
- One to one , Cologne 2003
- Silberblick , Cologne 2004
- Off the table , Leipzig 2004
- I think they weren't looking for us , Cologne 2005
- You have to reckon with Lieschen Müller , Zurich 2006
- Black Lady , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03913-9 .
- In the morning at six ... , picture book, Rostock 2009
- Cleaning and mending lesson. Two Cold Warriors remember , Munich 2009 (together with Sten Nadolny ), ISBN 978-3-492-05230-6 .
- Im Kasten , Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04417-1 .
- Sibylle Princess von Schwanstein , picture book, Rostock 2012
- End of summer time , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04616-8 .
- Leonhard Cohen: almost young , text on the picture biography, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8296-0663-9 .
- The old man and the guinea pig , Hildesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-8369-5918-6 .
- Life takes a lot of time , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-04997-8 .
- Jakobs Muschel , Hildesheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-8369-5648-2 .
Editing
- Friedrich von Schiller : The Ghost Seer , Berlin 1984
- Friedrich Hebbel : Lice of Reason , Berlin 1987
- Frippery. Sense and nonsense poems, Berlin 2012
Radio plays and features
- 1978: It's time , director: Fritz Göhler , Rundfunk der DDR.
- 1980: Adieu my King Solomon , Director: Fritz Göhler , Rundfunk der DDR, Critics' Director's Prize.
- 1983: And don't lead us into temptation , director: Barbara Plensat , Rundfunk der DDR.
- 1985: Schönhauser , director: Hannelore Solter , radio of the GDR.
- 1986: The Colossus , Director: Hannelore Solter , Broadcasting of the GDR:
- 1987: Inside - a labyrinth story for advanced learners , director: Hans Rosenhauer , NDR.
- 1988: Nikolaschka , director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , RB / SFB / DLF.
- 1989: Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse - A Museum , Director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , RB / DLF / SFB.
- 1989: You're a nebulo with Manfred Steffen , director: Norbert Schaeffer , SR / SWF / SDR, 1989. ISBN 3-89813-068-1 . ( Radio play award of the war blind ).
- 1989: Perpetuum Mobile , director: Hans Rosenhauer , NDR.
- 1991: The Lost Girl , directed by Irene Schuck , SWF.
- 1992: Kyffhäuser , director: Martin Daske , SFB / WDR / MDR.
- 1994: Back to , Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann , SR / MDR.
- 1999: The Conquistadors , directed by Hans Rosenhauer , NDR / HR.
- 1996: Drei Kometen , director: Norbert Schaeffer , WDR.
- 1997: The indoor fountain , director: Irene Schuck , BR.
- 1998: The big coup , director: Joachim Staritz , MDR.
- 2000: Das Lamadrama , directed by Gottfried von Eine , MDR.
- 2001: The Last Elk , Director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , SFB / ORB / WDR / SWR.
- 2004: Herzblut , Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch , MDR.
- 2005: Between the Lines , Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann , MDR.
- 2008: Tantes Inferno , directed by Walter Adler , MDR.
- 2012: Unter uns , directed by Wolfgang Rindfleisch , MDR.
- 2015: Prince v. Bismarck to rent for celebrations - Director: Nikolai von Koslowski ( Feature - MDR)
- 2017: Once St. Petersburg via Leningrad - and back again , director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch, MDR
literature
Boris Hoge: "p = not-p": Memory of Russia under the sign of deconstruction in Jens Sparschuh's "Black Lady". In: Ders .: Writing about Russia. The construction of space, history and cultural identity in German narrative texts since 1989. Heidelberg: Winter 2012, pp. 260–284.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jens Sparschuh in the catalog of the German National Library
- ub.fu-berlin.de ( Memento from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Link collection from the University Library of the Free University of Berlin
- Readings with Jens Sparschuh to listen to and download at Lesungen.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Award ceremony 2018 to Jens Sparschuh for The Old Man and the Guinea Pig , online at prosenectute.ch
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Spar shoe, Jens |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |