Joachim Zelter

Joachim Zelter (2007)

Joachim Zelter (born August 26, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German writer .

Life

Joachim Zelter is one of the descendants of Carl Friedrich Zelter . After graduating from high school, he studied English and political science at the University of Tübingen from 1982 to 1989 and graduated with a master's degree . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen. In 1993 he did his doctorate there with a literary thesis for a doctorate in philosophy in English . In 1995/96 he held a teaching position in German studies at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) ; In 1996/97 he taught modern English literature at the University of Tübingen.

At the age of 34 he decided to become a writer, and he had almost finished his first book Letters from America . After many rejections, letters from America and The Dignity of Lying finally appeared in the small Ithaka publishing house. When Joachim Zelter became better known, he received a request from the Tübingen Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag , which has since been publishing his works. Since 1997 he has lived as a freelance writer in Tübingen . His work consists mainly of narrative prose, which often shows a tendency towards political satire , but also towards tragicomic . In recent years he has written stage versions of his prose texts as well as independent theater pieces that have been performed on numerous stages in Germany and Austria. His 2010 novel Der Ministerpräsident appeared on the longlist for the German Book Prize . Zelter is a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center in Germany .

prose

• Meaningful fiction and truth, investigations into the aesthetic and epistemological problems of the concept of fiction in the context of European history of ideas and English literary history (= studies on English philology , NF Volume 32), Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-45032-0 (dissertation University of Tübingen 1993, XII, 349 pages, 23 cm).
• Letters from America . Novel. Ithaka Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-933545-00-5 .
• The dignity of lying . Novel. Ithaka Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-933545-25-0 .
• The Lieb-Haberin . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-421-05716-8 .
• The face. Novel by a writer . Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-421-05761-3 .
• Considerations of a hospital visitor . Stories. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-937667-01-6 .
• School of the unemployed . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-937667-71-7 .
• The dignity of lying . Novel. Tübingen 2007, ISBN 3-937667-95-4 .
• How are you, Mister Fear? Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-940086-11-2 .
• The Prime Minister . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940086-83-9 ; Tübingen 2012.
• The world in white . Stories. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86351-001-5 .
• subject . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86351-035-0 .
• Take a look . Literary novella. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86351-061-9 .
• Goodbye . Novella. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86351-400-6 .
• Letters from America . Novel. New version. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86351-423-5 .
• In the field . Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-86351-461-7 .
• Wills and other dispositions . A story and a speaking piece. Edition JJHeckenhauer, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 9783981151053 .
• Imperia . Novel. Klöpfer, Narr, Tübingen 2020, ISBN 9783749610174 .

Drama

• Job interview . Play. World premiere on October 29, 2007 at the Forum Theater Stuttgart. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• Alpha Park . Play. World premiere on October 30, 2007 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and by Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• School of the unemployed . Play based on the novel of the same name. First performance on December 1, 2007 at the Neue Bühne Senftenberg and at the Osnabrück Theater. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• Death in Tübingen . Acting together with Eva Christina Zeller. World premiere on June 27, 2008 by the Zimmertheater Tübingen.
• Professor Lear . Play. First performance on February 18, 2010 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• The Lieb-Haberin . Play based on the novel of the same name. World premiere on May 30, 2010 at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen. Production by the room theater in Tübingen. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• Three letter animal . Play. World premiere on January 29, 2011 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• Considerations of a hospital visitor . Play based on the story of the same name. World premiere on February 2, 2013 at Theater Reutlingen Die Tonne. Published by the theater publisher Whale Songs, Hamburg, and Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne.
• Biel at the lake . Play. World premiere on January 23, 2016 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen.
• The preacher . Play. World premiere on September 14, 2019 at the Gütersloh Theater.
• Corona for two . Cinematic acting. Digital premiere on April 10, 2020 at the Gütersloh Theater.

Radio plays

• The city tour . Radio play. Sent on December 7th, 2002 in SWR.
• Tortouren: A bicycle comedy . Radio play. Posted on June 24, 2006 in SWR.
• Homecoming . Radio play. Sent on October 13, 2007 on SWR.
• The Prime Minister . Radio play version of the novel of the same name. Sent on September 10, 2011 in SWR .
• Death in Tübingen . Radio play version of the play of the same name. Sent on October 4, 2014 in SWR .
• The show . A dialect comedy. Radio play. Sent on February 20, 2016 in SWR.
• The best man . Radio play. Sent on January 22nd, 2018 on SRF.

Audio books

• The dignity of lying . Audio book. Read by Monica Bleibtreu , Dietmar Mues and Joachim Zelter. Audiobook Hamburg, 2008. ISBN 3-89903-628-X , ISBN 978-3-89903-628-2

Translations

• Yalanın Erdemi . Ayrinti Yayinlari. Turkey 2005, ISBN 9789755394664 .
• America mektuplari . Ayrıntı Yayınları. Turkey 2007, ISBN 9755395148 .
• Chômeurs academy . Autrement. France 2008, ISBN 274671194X .
• La scuola dei disoccupati . Isbn Edizioni. Italy 2012, ISBN 9788876383779 .
• L'assujetti . Grass set. France 2014, ISBN 9782246807360 .
• Monsieur l'écrivain . Grass set. France 2016, ISBN 9782246852629 .

Awards

• 2000: Squidward Troll Prize .
• 2000: Funding from the International Lake Constance Conference .
• 2003: Bahnwärter scholarship from the city of Esslingen am Neckar .
• 2003: Annual grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation .
• 2005: Annual scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg .
• 2010: Nomination for the German Book Prize 2010 (longlist) with “Der Ministerpräsident”.
• 2017: Gisela Scherer grant.
• 2019: Prize of the LiteraTour Nord for his previous work, especially for his novel “Im Feld”, published in 2018.

literature

• Mario Andreotti: The Structure of Modern Literature. 5th ed. Haupt Verlag (UTB), Bern, 2014. pp. 191–193.
• David-Christopher Assmann: The book is just the inner framework. On the organization of paratexts in Joachim Zelter's "Face" , in: Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi - Studies on German Language and Literature, 2010, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1–16.
• Iuditha Balint: work as a metaphor. Semantic crossing of boundaries in contemporary texts. In: Critical Edition 18 2014, 27, pages 27–30.
• Iuditha Balint: Narrated delimitations. Narratives of work at the beginning of the 21st century. Wilhelm Fink, 2017. pp. 136–167.
• Manuel Clemens, “Theatricality in the subject novels by Heinrich Mann (1918) and Joachim Zelter (2012)”, in: Colloquia Germanica. International Journal for German Studies 50 (2017): 269–285.
• Manuel Clemens and Thorben Päthe, “The 'subject' as a figure in crisis in political neoliberalism. Conversation with the writer Joachim Zelter ”, in: Colloquia Germanica. International Journal for German Studies 50 (2017): 377–393.
• Christel Freitag: A Writer's Contemplations and Other Occurrences. A conversation with Joachim Zelter. In: Literaturblatt für Baden-Württemberg 19, 2012, Issue 5, pp. 6-8.
• Thorben Päthe, "Figurations of the 'New Authoritarian' in Joachim Zelter and Michel Houellebecq", in: Colloquia Germanica. International Journal for German Studies 50 (2017): 287–313.
• Monnika Wolting: Deprivation of Identity? Measures against unemployment in Joachim Zelter's "School of the Unemployed" (2006) in: Omnia vincit labor? 2013, pp. 185–193.
• Joachim Zelter, “Today I tend to see the death of the literary text.” In: Angela Gencarelli and Benedikt Viertlehaus, eds. “Run, book! Let's see what the world will do with you. ” Factory talks. Berlin: EDITION CRITICAL EDITION published by Dreiviertelhaus, Volume 11, 2020, 83-100.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Zelter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Joachim Zelter at Open Library
• Homepage of the author
• Interview with Zelter in the SWR2 series contemporaries

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6530
2. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6771
3. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6761
4. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6865
5. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6864
6. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6888
7. ↑ https://www.hsverlag.com/werke/detail/t6758
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stvxt6SCw3U YouTube video "Corona for two"