Joachim Bessing

Joachim Bessing (born June 26, 1971 in Bietigheim ) is a German writer and journalist .

He spent his childhood and youth in Heimerdingen , a pietistic village in Württemberg . He became known mainly through his editing of the book Tristesse Royale (1999), with which the so-called "pop-cultural quintet" (in addition to Bessing, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , Christian Kracht , Eckhart Nickel and Alexander von Schönburg ) was launched. For the 2000/2001 season, Bessing wrote a stage version of Tristesse Royale , which was premiered in Göttingen . In the same place, he directed the ensemble Göttingen in 2001, two other of his plays: A Language of Love and bathroom , both in world premieres.

Since then, Joachim Bessing has written two more books, the novel We Machine (2001) and Save the Family! (2004). In 2008, Bessing's translation of Decent Drinking by Kingsley Amis ( On Drink ) was published. Untitled , a romance novel , was published in March 2013 .

With the journalist Anne Waak and the writer Ingo Niermann , Joachim Bessing publishes an archive for literary journalism on waahr.de. Since January 1, 2016, he has published a diary on waahr.de under the title 2016 - The Year Punk Broke .

Works

• Contrazoom, narrative, in: Christian Kracht (Ed.): Mesopotamia, serious stories at the end of the millennium , DVA, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05191-7 .
• Tristesse Royale: The pop-cultural quintet with Joachim Bessing, Christian Kracht, Eckhart Nickel, Alexander von Schönburg and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , published by Joachim Bessing, Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-31226-8 .
• Wash, cut, live, by Udo Walz , recorded by Joachim Bessing, Quadriga, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88679-339-7 .
• Wir machine DVA, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05298-0 .
• Tristesse Royale (play, 2001)
• A language of love (play, 2001)
• Bad (play, 2001)
• Save the family! A provocation (List, 2004), ISBN 3-471-79486-7
• Decent drinking , Translated from the English by Joachim Bessing (Rogner and Bernhard, 2008), ISBN 978-3-8077-1071-6
• Untitled . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04517-8
• Great. My life by Friedrich Liechtenstein , Piper, Munich / Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05666-3
• Bonn. Atlantis der FRG , Matthes and Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783957577153
• Emojis , Wagenbach, Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783803136848
• Hamburg. Sex City , Matthes and Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2020, ISBN 9783957578563

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Bessing in the catalog of the German National Library
• "A pamphlet for seriousness": Rainald Goetz on "untitled" on ZEIT Online
• "In the prison of freedom": Helene Hegemann on "untitled" in the archive of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• "2016 - The Year Punk Broke" online diary by Joachim Bessing on waahr.de
• Joachim Bessing BR: Interview about his novel UNTITLED [1]
• Albert Meier: IRONIC-HELL. The pop culture quintet: Tristesse Royale
• Marie Schmidt : West nostalgia. on sueddeutsche.de. 4th August 2019.

• Philipp Theison on "Bonn. Atlantis der BRD" on pop–zeitschrift.de