Jonas Engelmann

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Jonas Engelmann (2016)

Jonas Engelmann (born November 21, 1978 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) is a German author and publisher specializing in pop culture .

Life

Engelmann studied comparative literature , philosophy and political science at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . Graduated in 2006 with a thesis on Auschwitz in the work of Hubert Fichte and Paul Auster ( "What forgetting do I remember?" Auschwitz in the work of Paul Auster and Hubert Fichte (Marburg, 2007)). His PhD Framed Discourse. Images of society in independent comics was awarded the Roland Faelske Prize for comics and animation films in 2012.

Since the late noughties he has been working as a freelance journalist with a focus on pop culture , music , comics and Jewish culture , including for concrete , Jungle World , Strapazin , Intro , Missy Magazine and taz . Jonas Engelmann has been co-editor of the book series testcard  - Contributions to Pop History, which has been published by Valve Verlag in Mainz since 2006 .

Engelmann also works as an editor and co-publisher for Ventil Verlag. He was a collaborator and editor of numerous anthologies, including Pop Kultur Discurs. On the relationship between society, the cultural industry and science (ed. By Sonja Witte, Holger Adam, Jonas Engelmann and others, 2010), Emo. Portrait of a scene (edited by Martin Büsser, Jonas Engelmann and Ingo Rüdiger, 2013) and Riot Grrrl Revisited. Past and present of a feminist movement (Ed. By Katja Peglow and Jonas Engelmann, 2011). He has also contributed to numerous books, including on the history and theory of comics (Picture This. Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet), on September 11th in pop culture (The Sky is Falling. September 11th in the comics by Art Spiegelman and Peter Kuper), music (Have You Ever Heard of Jandek? America's most hidden songwriter) and art (Memory Loops. Spaces of memory, city and sound with Michaela Melián).

Engelmann is an expert in the field of comics and graphic novels , on which he has written numerous articles and reviews. Other focal points of his work are in the field of gender studies, film and literary history. In addition, he deals intensively with Jewish culture and subculture, for which he has organized several conferences and festivals and published an anthology: We are ugly but we have the music. An unusual search for traces in matters of Jewish experience and subculture (Eds. By Jonas Engelmann, Werner Nell, Peter Waldmann and Hans Peter Frühauf, 2012). 2016 appeared with Rootless Cosmopolitans. From Luftmenschen, Golems and Jewish Pop Culture a monograph on the subject in which Engelmann subjects Jewish high, pop and subculture, film, comics and literature to a re-reading.

Jonas Engelmann looks after the estate of the pop theorist Martin Büsser , with whom he was editor of the magazine testcard  - Contributions to Pop History from 2006 until his death in 2010 . In 2011 a first anthology with texts by Büsser was published under the editorship of Engelmann, Music Is My Boyfriend. Texts 1990-2010 . In 2018, on the occasion of Martin Büsser's 50th birthday, a second book was published with the title Forever in Pop. Texts from two decades .

Awards

  • Roland Faelske Prize for comics and animation film (2012)

Fonts

Valve publisher Jonas Engelmann during a reading (2016)
  • “What kind of forgetting do I remember?” Auschwitz in the work of Paul Auster and Hubert Fichte. 1st edition. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8288-9211-8 (German).
  • Holger Adam, Jonas Engelmann, Yasar Aydin u. a. (Ed.): Pop culture discourse . On the relationship between society, the cultural industry and science. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-931555-48-1 .
  • Katja Peglow and Jonas Engelmann (Eds.): Riot Grrrl Revisited . Past and present of a feminist movement. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-931555-47-4 .
  • Martin Büsser: Music Is My Boyfriend . Texts 1990-2010. Ed .: Jonas Engelmann. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-931555-45-0 .
  • Jonas Engelmann, Werner Nell, Peter Waldmann and Hans Peter Frühauf (eds.): We are ugly but we have the music . An unusual search for traces of Jewish experience and subculture. 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-931555-39-9 (German).
  • Martin Büsser, Jonas Engelmann, Ingo Rüdiger (eds.): Emo . Portrait of a scene. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-95575-005-3 .
  • Framed discourse . Images of society in independent comics. 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-931555-34-4 (German).
  • Rootless cosmopolitans . About aerial people, golems and Jewish pop culture. 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-95575-050-3 (German).
  • Jonas Engelmann, Fiona Sara Schmidt and Torsten Nagel (eds.): Play Gender . Left Practice - Feminism - Cultural Work. 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-95575-049-7 (German).
  • Damaged Goods . 150 entries in punk history. 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-95575-061-9 (German).
  • Jonas Engelmann and Thomas Schröder (eds.): From the end of the story . Walter Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history. 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2017, ISBN 978-3-95575-075-6 (German).
  • Martin Büsser: Forever in Pop . Texts from two decades. Ed .: Jonas Engelmann. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2018, ISBN 978-3-95575-093-0 .
  • Jonas Engelmann, Andreas Rauscher, Josef Rauscher (eds.): Czechoslovakian New Wave . The film miracle of the sixties. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2018, ISBN 978-3-95575-090-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.comicgesellschaft.de/2012/12/13/roland-faelske-preistrager-2012/
  2. ↑ http://jungle-world.com/suche/?s=jonas%20engelmann
  3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  4. ↑ http://www.testcard.de/
  5. ↑ Comics as a Nexus of Culture (Ed. By Mark Berninger et al., 2010) https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/comics-as-a-nexus-of-cultures/
  6. ↑ 9/11 as a cultural turning point (Ed. By Sandra Poppe, Sascha Seiler and Thorsten Schüller, 2009) 9/11 as a cultural turning point
  7. ↑ Hidden Tracks. The hidden, forgotten and disappeared in pop music (Ed. By Sascha Seiler and Thorsten Schüller, 2012) https://www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p7074_Hidden-Tracks--br--Das -Hidden-forgotten-and-disappeared-in-pop-music.html
  8. ↑ Locations / dislocations. Urban Sound Spaces (Ed. By Melanie Albrecht and Michael Wehren, 2015) - ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neofelis-verlag.de
  9. ↑ http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2012/20/45476.html
  10. ↑ http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2014/51/51107.html
  11. ↑ http://www.skug.at/article6701.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.jgmainz.de/docs/Programm-Tagung2010.pdf
  13. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.juedisches-kulturfestival.de
  14. ↑ https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/1411/we-are-ugly-but-we-have-the-music
personal data
SURNAME Engelmann, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and publisher with a focus on pop culture
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück