Jens Sparschuh

Jens Sparschuh reads at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2017

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

Jens Sparschuh (left) in conversation at the Leipzig Book Fair 2012

• 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

Commons : Jens Sparschuh  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ Award ceremony 2018 to Jens Sparschuh for The Old Man and the Guinea Pig , online at prosenectute.ch