Julia Kulewatz

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Julia Kulewatz, Leipzig Book Fair 2019

Julia Kulewatz is a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Julia Kulewatz was born in Ludwigsfelde near Berlin and grew up near Berlin and Erfurt . She studied literature , philosophy , fashion drawing and choreography in Erfurt and Seoul . She gives seminars at the University of Erfurt and at the Adult Education Center Erfurt on the subject of "creative writing". In March 2020, Jenseits BlassBlau, her second volume of short stories , was published after Vom lustlichen Seufzer des Sudankäfers (2017) . The German fantasy bestseller author Bernhard Hennen wrote the foreword for this . She writes short prose, literary miniatures and poetry and does research on Herta Müller's work .

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Topics that keep recurring in her texts are home and homecoming, interior and exterior, war, speechlessness, dreams and trauma. In addition, motifs of surrealism and the absurd often appear in her texts.

In the product description for Vom Lustlicher Sufzer des Sudan beetles , it says: “Julia Kulewatz's debut is a literary arrangement that, with a wink, contains all sorts of sensitive, tragic, erotic, grotesque, dreamlike and surreally playful things in 12 short stories and 2 miniatures. Located behind strange times and (in) real spaces, somewhere between Duna and Wadi, their texts merge longing, love and hope, loss, joy and pain, arbitrariness, truth and poetic necessity. They tell of whirring heads of women, bathtubs filled with beetles, musical clock panoramas, voiceless tones, fruitless apple trees in the remainder of the summer, cellar glass palaces in the untouchability of the moment and fireflies on the edge of the imagination. The reader becomes acquainted with Korean water girls, a femme fatale who makes aphrodisiacs from scarab men, the shoe-selling magician Gray, the girl at the window framed by torrential rain and chalk dust, with Aylin, who is close to God, and with Irene, who faces the wall stands. Finally, following the trail of an ant, with a little luck and curiosity, the reader hears a sound that he can all too easily overhear in the hustle and bustle of everyday life - the lustful sigh of the Sudan beetle. "

Jenseits BlassBlau is described in the following words: “With Jenseits BlassBlau Julia Kulewatz creates a literary“ blueprint ”of the intermediate worlds in which we move through conserved paradises, waiting for wounded soldiers under threatened black poplars in front of shattered memories or suddenly in the speechlessness of our own to remain in a mirror image that has become alien. The short stories gathered here speak with the wisdom of seven-year-old children, let love become transparent and awaken tender green virgins from the bodies of ancient dragons who watch over people. We are sent on adventurous journeys of discovery in which there is nothing less to lose and gain than a new perspective on ourselves and the fantastic reality that surrounds us. Space and time are liquefied in the steps of barefoot mermaids. We fly and we fall in the blink of an eye of a blackbird that opens the eye or closes it forever. With the virtuosity of her powerful visual language, the author takes us into the all-encompassing depths of the ocean, which is both salvation and destruction. It lets us dive into the distant expanse of surreal cloud formations against sky blue, which can be nothing more than a pale blue beyond. "

Trivia

  • The following short description of the author can be found in Vom Lustvoll des Sudan Beetle : “Julia Kulewatz was born into the world on a stormy October night under a red hunter's moon by a rather wild Erfurt woman near Berlin. Since blood has been thicker than water, she has alternately returned home to Berlin and Erfurt. On the way, she lost her heart in Seoul. The only thing she has in common with some of her characters is losing heart, because she pays strict attention to her head. "
  • In his foreword to Jenseits BlassBlau, Bernhard Hennen calls her “the poet of German fantasy.” In particular, he emphasizes the “linguistic gems”, but also that the reader comes across “new, unused images” in her stories.
  • She describes her literature as "handmade". So she first writes down every story by hand, mostly sitting under a tree. It is important to her to "give (world) space to the imagination of her readers in order to discover the highest and the deepest together."
  • Her debut reading of Vom lusteful Seufzer des Sudan beetles took place on April 27, 2017 in the Erfurt City and Regional Library .
  • The audiobook DUNA was published in 2017 as a musically reworked reduction of From the lustful sigh of the Sudan beetle , on which a selection of her short stories are underlaid with electronic arrangements of a slightly different kind. The music comes from Toni Materne, the cover image of the CD from Erfurt artist Marc Jung .
  • At the adult education center in Erfurt she founded the “Erfurt writers” together with participants in her courses. A group of writers of different stripes should be given the opportunity to develop their literary talents and to present their texts to an audience.
  • Her short story 50 Shoes of Gray from From the Lustful Sigh of the Sudan Beetle found its way onto the theater stage in 2018. Together with Stephan Herbst she wrote the textbook and directed it. The premiere took place on November 9, 2018 in Erfurt.
  • On May 12, 2020, she was a guest in the “Home” series by Bernhard Hennen and Robert Corvus , in which both themselves and invited guest authors each read the first page from one of their works and answer questions about the work and background.
  • On July 16, 2020, she presented Jenseits BlassBlau as part of the series "Verwunschene Nights" co-organized by Bernhard Hennen at Linn Castle in Krefeld .

bibliography

Volumes of short stories

  • 2017 - From the lustful sigh of the Sudan beetle . 1st edition. ed [ition]. cetera, Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-944478-08-1
  • 2020 - Beyond Pale Blue . With a foreword by Bernhard Hennen. 1st edition. Edition Roter Drache, Rudolstadt, ISBN 978-3-946425-96-0

Short stories (selection)

  • Nabi Pyon-Jī . In: Corinna Griesbach (Ed.): Habitats (= Haller , Vol. 11), 2015, ISBN 978-3-942533-83-6
  • The Oracle at Delphi . In: Jennifer Günther, Stephanie Keunecke, Ina Lammers, Julia Plainer (eds.): Keller, Schlüssel. A picture-text anthology (= DueStorie , Vol. 3), 2016, ISBN 978-3-946420-08-8
  • Foliage . In: Action Group Eskapismus (Ed.): Wortwald, 2017, ISBN 978-3-941935-42-6
  • The girl at the window . In: Jennifer Günther, Stephanie Keunecke, Ina Lammers (eds.): Window, frame. A picture-text anthology (= DueStorie , Vol. 4), 2017, ISBN 978-3-946420-19-4

Scientific contributions (selection)

  • "On the other hand". In between, as a generative gray area in Herta Müller's letter . In: Peter Tschuggnall (Ed.): Collage Aesthetics / Religion. Perspectives of an intermedia mirroring (= In context. Contributions to religion, philosophy and culture , vol. 38), 2014, ISBN 978-3-902537-29-4 . Available online .
  • This is not a lullaby. About rocking: Collaged waking dream and being a stranger in your own pictures from Herta Müller, 2018. Available online .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imaginative and somehow out of this world. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ On Life and Writing Beyond Harmony. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Erfurt author Julia Kulewatz creates space between the words. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Fairy Tales from Erfurt - Julia Kulewatz publishes second work. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Imaginative and somehow out of this world. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Julia Kulewatz: Beyond BlassBlau . 1st edition. Edition Roter Drache, Rudolstadt 2020, ISBN 978-3-946425-96-0 , p. 5-7 .
  7. ↑ Product description of "From the lustful sigh of the Sudan beetle" on Amazon. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Product description of “Jenseits BlassBlau” on the publisher's website for Edition Roter Drache. Retrieved July 30, 2020 (A shortened description can also be found on the inside back of the dust jacket.).
  9. ↑ Julia Kulewatz: From the lustful sigh of the Sudan beetle . 1st edition. ed [ition]. cetera, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-944478-08-1 , p. 109 .
  10. ↑ a b c Julia Kulewatz: Beyond BlassBlau . 1st edition. Edition Roter Drache, Rudolstadt 2020, ISBN 978-3-946425-96-0 , p. 6 .
  11. ↑ Brief description of Julia Kulewatz on LovelyBooks. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ The reformer as a silhouette. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The Erfurt writers unite writing at the adult education center. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  14. ↑ New platform for the “Erfurt writers”. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Madame Gray does the honor in Erfurt. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Haunted nights. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Talented fantasy author convinces with reading. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kulewatz, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century