Joachim Geil

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Joachim Geil (born December 26, 1970 in Kandel ) is a German writer and editor .

Life

Joachim Geil grew up in Bad Bergzabern in the south of the Palatinate . He studied theater, film and television studies, art history and Slavic philology at the University of Cologne . Geil curated exhibitions on the subject of theater and visual arts for the theater studies collection of the University of Cologne , for example about the painters and set designers Egon Wilden and Gustav Wunderwald and the director Gustav Rudolf Sellner . In 1999 he published the artist monograph Egon Wilden (1894–1931). The painter and the stage. From 2000 to 2004 Geil worked at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, where he supervised numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, among others with the artists Reinhard Doubrawa, Jimmie Durham , Gregor Schneider and Ulrich Wagner. Essays and speeches about visual artists were created. In 2003 he published in the catalog Wasa Marjanov. Theaterkisten - Theater Boxes first short stories, in 2008 the book Vom Blick des Schauenden und von das What he could see was published by the Cologne Salon Verlag . Four essays and a story about Oliver Czarnetta.

Geil published his widely acclaimed debut novel Heimaturlaub in 2010 in the Steidl Verlag Göttingen . It tells the story of a young Wehrmacht soldier who spent a week in the idyllic Palatinate province in the war summer of 1944. He is haunted by the experiences on the Eastern Front , which have already destroyed his life as the "duty to guilt" has become.

In 2012, Steidl Verlag also published the novel Tischler's appearance , the tragicomic story of an author suffering from cancer who appears in a cooking program and looks back on episodes of his life: Excerpt from provincial narrowness in the Frankfurt student movement of the 1960s, critical theory , sexual liberation , Drug use and radicalization . This route description up to an assassination attempt, which the title hero plans years later as the author of culinary history books in the cooking show, plays with the cliché of the culinary savvy leftist and his “long march into the cooking studio”. In addition to the historical themes in which their protagonists are involved, both novels deal with motifs of the apparently idyllic , guilt and failure.

Joachim Geil lives in Cologne .

Awards / grants

Works

  • Egon Wilden. The painter and the stage. Cologne: Teiresias 1999.
  • 20 short stories, in: Wasa Marjanow: Theater boxes - Theater Boxes. Burgdorf: Museum Franz Gertsch 2003.
  • Faust I – III. A morality. In: cult :. Cultural newspaper of the Bavarian Theater Academy. Munich 2006.
  • From the looking of the seeer and from what he could see. Four essays and a story about Oliver Czarnetta. Cologne: Salon 2009.
  • Home leave. Roman, Göttingen: Steidl 2010.
  • Carpenter's appearance. Roman, Göttingen: Steidl 2012.
  • Rest on the run. Roman, Göttingen, Steidl 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews at Perlentaucher .
  2. ↑ Oliver Junge: When duty has become guilt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 3, 2010 (accessed February 10, 2013).
  3. ↑ Gisa Funck: The long march into the cooking studio. In: Der Tagesspiegel from January 20, 2013 (accessed on February 14, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Great, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Candelabra