Joachim Lottmann

Joachim Lottmann (born October 6, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Lottmann was born in Hamburg- Hochkamp and spent his childhood in the Belgian Congo . When he was 13, his family moved back to Hamburg, where Lottmann studied theater history and literature from 1976. Lottmann is considered a representative of German pop literature . His debut novel May, June, July from 1987 was voted one of the "most important German books of the last 20 years" by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in 2003 . From 2005 to 2006 Lottmann worked in the culture department of Spiegel .

style

A striking feature in Lottmann's prose is the ironic "praise to death" in the style of played simplicity. Lottmann did this in numerous articles about the SPD and Gerhard Schröder in the taz ("This man was like no other: Germany.") And with constant references to Christian Kracht in his novel German Unity .

Lottmann cultivates a casual approach to facts not only in his literary but also in his journalistic work: “For example, if you read what Lottmann writes about bands or concerts, it may well be that names, places, times and events are incorrect . Lottmann is concerned, consciously or not, with something else: with holding onto a diffuse zeitgeist, a feeling that is in the air. "

Works

Prose works

• May June July. A novel . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 1987; New edition 2003, ISBN 3-462-03246-1 .
• German unity. A historical novel from 1995 . Haffmans , Zurich 1999; Diana, Munich 2001.
• Today's youth . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03426-X .
• Zombie nation . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03665-3 .
• On the borderline at half past midnight. My life as a Germany reporter . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03937-5 .
• The money complex . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04146-0 .
• Among doctors . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04012-8 .
• 100 days of alcohol. Not a novel. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-707-60377-4 .
• Cocaine at last . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04635-9 .
• Happy ending . Novel. Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-942989-89-3 .
• Hotel Sylvia . Till-Tolkemitt-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942989-94-7 .
• All lie. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-04964-0 .

Editing

• Kanaksta. From Germans and other foreigners . Quadriga, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88679-333-8

Alleged manuscripts

According to his own account, Lottmann wrote further novel manuscripts (“at least three, maybe even about 20”), all of which had been rejected by the publisher. In 1982, Diedrich Diederichsen mentioned an alleged Lottmann novel in the music magazine Sounds with the title Port Stanley fell .

Awards

• 2010 Wolfgang Koeppen Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Lottmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joachim Lottmann's MySpace profile
• Thomas Lindemann : A night club called Germany , report in the Welt am Sonntag, October 24, 2004, about an encounter with Lottmann and a response from Lottmann to it in the Tagesspiegel
• Lottmann's weblog at the taz
• The shared responsibility of left thinkers for the shift to the right in Germany - polemics against Jürgen Habermas , in: Die Welt, July 5, 2018
• Martin Conrads: Uncle researches review of the youth of today . In: fluter.de. February 13, 2005.

proof

1. ↑ Joachim Lottmann. Retrieved August 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: A form of criticism that can still be afforded - Review of On the Borderline at half past twelve , Telepolis from September 29, 2007
3. ↑ Joachim Lottmann: "He was my Chancellor"
4. ↑ Who is Joachim Lottmann? Review from the online magazine Jetzt from March 28, 2006
5. ↑ [1] Die Welt : A night club called Germany, accessed on June 15, 2014
6. ↑ See Sounds 8/1982, p. 45
7. ↑ Joachim Lottmann: The search for the award-winning book . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 21, 2012, Z 4