Jochen Schimmang

Jochen Schimmang during an interview at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2009

Jochen Schimmang (born March 14, 1948 in Northeim ) is a German writer , radio play author and translator .

Life

Schimmang spent his youth in Leer (East Friesland) . From 1969 to 1974 he studied political science and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . From 1977 he taught German as a foreign language at various locations , and has been a freelance writer since 1993 . He lived for a long time in Cologne , in Paris and his hometown Leer, and currently (2019) in Oldenburg . In 1996/97 he was poet in residence at the University of Essen , and in 2000/2001 he was a visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzigtrue. Schimmang is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the German Marcel Proust Society . He has been on the road several times with author readings for the Goethe-Institut , for example in Northern England and Northern Ireland (Belfast) in 1988, in the Netherlands in 1996 and in Russia in 2013.

His works, some of which are autobiographically tinged, which, with their psychologizing narrative style, can be assigned to the literature of the New Inwardness , used to often focus on the male single existence of the present. Since his first novel, Schimmang has been regarded as a seismographic chronicler of the state of life and social trends in the Federal Republic. The radio plays created for Radio Bremen are in Low German , those realized with WDR in Standard German. As a flaneur , he dedicated his own volume of essays to the city of Cologne in 1998 , Familiar Grounds, Occupied City , in which he explained why he had to move away because of too many memories. As a literary critic, Schimmang also reviews books, for example for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or for the daily newspaper .

Works

The beautiful phoenix bird. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-37027-8 .
The end of touchability. Narrative. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-518-37239-4 .
The north shines. Stories. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-37523-7 .
The pleasure of kings. Stories. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-627-10055-7 .
The presence of mind. Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-627-10056-5 .
Carmen. A story . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-627-10057-3 .
Royal roads. Stories. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-89561-090-9 .
A short book about love. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-89561-091-7 .
Familiar terrain, occupied city. Essay. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-89561-092-5 .
The strange near you. Leer 2001.
50 years of Leer City Library. Leer 2002.
The Murnausche gap. Novel. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-88423-191-X .
Four Seasons. With vignettes from Thomas Müller. Satzwerk-Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-930333-42-2 .
Goodbye Dr. Winter. Stories. Table 7, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-938476-04-4 .
Old terrain. (= Better reading . No. 89). Narrative. SuKulTuR, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941592-04-9 .
The best we had. Novel. Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89401-598-5 .
New middle. Novel. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89401-741-5 .
The beautiful phoenix bird. New edition with an afterword by Helmut Lethen. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89401-780-4 .
Christian Morgenstern. A biography. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-3263-0 .
Borders margins no man's lands. 51 cross-country courses . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89401-798-9 .
Old Customs House, West State Border. Novel. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96054-035-9 .
Adorno no longer lives here. Stories. 206 pp., Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96054-200-1 .
My east end . mareverlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-86648-298-2 .

Radio plays

Shallows. WDR 1994.
The voices of Nienbeck. WDR 1999.
Biller from tohus. Radio Bremen 2004 - Zons Radio Play Award 2005.
A painter struggles well. Radio Bremen 2005.
Dood in't watts. Radio Bremen 2007.
Old border. WDR 2007.
De Husmeester. Radio Bremen 2007.
Een Füerpüster. Radio Bremen 2009.
De Fru in'n Daak. Radio Bremen 2010.
Dump truck. Radio Bremen 2012.
So or anners. Radio Bremen 2014.
The raftsman . SWR 2015.
The lighted city belongs to others . WDR 2016.
Art theft in Angeloh. Radio Bremen 2017 .
Peter Petersen is unbelievable. Radio Bremen 2017
De Saak with the mayor. Radio Bremen 2019

editor

with Christel Göbelsmann: love stories. Frankfurt am Main 1982.
Cologne, looks. Cologne 1998.
Central outskirts. Cologne 2002.

Translations

Josephine Tey : Waiting for Death. DuMont, Cologne 2003.
Janet Gleeson: The Broken Ring. Knaus, Munich 2004.
Janet Gleeson: The emerald necklace. Knaus, Munich 2005.
Gilbert Adair : Murder on Ffolkes Manor. CH Beck, Munich 2006.
Gilbert Adair: A Classy Murder in Elstree. CH Beck, Munich 2007.
Gilbert Adair: And then there was no more. CH Beck, Munich 2008.
Gilbert Adair: Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires. CH Beck, Munich 2010.
Gabriel Josipovici : Moo Pak. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010.
Import, export democracy: 20 years of promoting democracy in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus. ed. from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2010.
Eli Gottlieb: Best Boy. CH Beck, Munich 2016.
Sebastian Faulks: The great madness. mareverlag, Hamburg 2017.

Awards

1982 Prize of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature
1996 Rheinischer Literaturpreis Siegburg
2000 annual scholarship for literature from the state of Lower Saxony
2005 Radio Play Prize Regional Radio Play of the City of Neuss
2008 scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
2010 Rheingau Literature Prize for the best we had
2012 Fantastic Prize of the City of Wetzlar for the New Center
2012/13 scholarship holder of the Villa Concordia in Bamberg
9 - 11/2013 scholarship holder of the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Foundation
2019 Walter Kempowski Prize for Biographical Literature

literature

Geertje Oldermann: At home in Jochen Schimmang's work. Master thesis. 2003.
Matthias Keidel: The return of the strollers. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006, pp. 149 - 168.

Web links

Literature by and about Jochen Schimmang in the catalog of the German National Library
Edition Nautilus the publisher of the author , accessed on January 7, 2013.
Night owls on a journey of souls. Alexis Eideneier's review of Die Murnausche Lücke , accessed on January 7, 2013.

Individual references, comments

↑ Grégoire Bouillier loves surprises
↑ Flowers of a stupid business
↑ Martin Oehlen: Adorno among many absent. Review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. August 1, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019.
↑ author page in mareverlag . Retrieved on February 26, 2020 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Schimmang, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Northeim

[1] Grégoire Bouillier loves surprises

[2] Flowers of a stupid business

[3] Martin Oehlen: Adorno among many absent. Review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. August 1, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019.

[4] author page in mareverlag . Retrieved on February 26, 2020 (German).