Julian Poerksen

Julian Pörksen (* 1985 in Freiburg) is a German author , director and dramaturge .

Life

Pörksen worked as an assistant for Christoph Schlingensief , studied German, history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and then dramaturgy in Leipzig. Since then he has written a non-fiction book, several plays and scripts, which he realized as a director. His film debut Sometimes we sit and think and sometimes we just sit, about a 50-year-old man who voluntarily moves into a nursing home and triggers a wealth of events with his passivity, premiered at the Berlinale in 2012 (Perspektive Deutsches Kino). In 2013 his essay Waste Your Time was published , the third edition is now available and has been translated into English. In 2016 he published the playbook We want to be plankton . The eponymous play premiered in 2017 at the Schauspiel Köln. In the same year the game app The Ultimate Game was released .

Pörksen's first feature film, the road movie Whatever Happens Next , premiered at the Berlinale in 2018. It is about a dropout and good-for-nothing who disappears from his old life and from then on leaves himself entirely to chance. Poerksen's debut received positive reviews. At the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Pörksen won the DEFA Foundation's 4,000 euro award for Whatever Happens Next . In January 2019 Julian Pörksen made his debut as a theater director at the Schauspiel Köln with his play La bella confusione . In 2019 he was awarded the Kompagnon-Förderpreis of the Berlinale. In the same year he was awarded the Ivan Illich Prize for his essay Volatility . He directed the entire season of the series From the Diary of an Uber Driver .

Publications

In 2013 he published the book Verschwende Deine Zeit at Alexander Verlag in Berlin . A plea. The foreword was written by the dramaturge Carl Hegemann . In the book, which revolves around the current discourse on fast pace and deceleration, on the performance and the tired society, and which is reflected in countless publications or discussions in radio and television programs, as well as on the question of how the art of economization can withdraw from our world and the "utility paradigm".

book

• Volatility. Essay. In: But I don't want to belong in this world ... Contributions to convivial thinking according to Ivan Illich. Edited by Marianne Gronemeyer / Reimer Gronemeyer / Charlotte Jurk / Marcus Jurk / Manuel Pensé. 2019. ISBN 978-3-8376-4903-1

• Waste your time . A plea. With a foreword by Carl Hegemann. Alexander Verlag , Berlin, 2012. ISBN 978-3-89581-309-2
• We want to be plankton. Two plays. With an afterword by Carl Hegemann. Alexander Verlag , Berlin, 2016. ISBN 978-3-89581-365-8
• Waste your time. A plea. Translated by Robert Goodwin. Alexander Verlag , Berlin, 2018. ISBN 978-3-89581-448-8

theatre

• La bella confusione . Play (text and direction: Julian Pörksen, WP: Schauspiel Köln, 2019)
• Doing things with words. Play, 2015
• We want to be plankton. Theater play, 2015 (WP: Schauspiel Köln, 2017)

Film / TV

• From an Uber driver's diary . Series. Joyn, 2019 (6 episodes, director)
• Whatever Happens Next (writer, director). Feature film, 2018
• Harry & Dirk (screenplay, direction, production). Short film, 2016
• Sometimes we sit and think and sometimes we just sit . Short film (screenplay, direction, production), 2012

Games

• The Ultimate Game . 2017

Awards

• Prize of the DEFA Foundation (for Whatever Happens Next )
• Compagnon Award (Berlinale 2019)
• Ivan Illich Prize 2019 (for the essay Volatility )

Web links

• Julian Pörksen's website
• Julian Pörksen at Alexander Verlag
• Interview with Julian Pörksen (2012)

swell

1. ↑ Information on Sometimes . credofilm.de
2. ↑ Waste your time - Alexander Verlag. Accessed December 3, 2018 (German). 
3. ↑ Waste Your Time - Alexander Verlag. Retrieved December 6, 2018 . 
4. ↑ https://www.alexander-verlag.com/programm/titel/357-Wir_wollen_Plankton_sein.html
5. ↑ Schauspiel Köln: Schauspiel Köln - We want to be Plankton, by Julian Pörksen - December 16, 2017, 8 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
6. ↑ "The Ultimate Game" in the App Store. Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Whatever Happens Next website
8. ↑ Whatever Happens Next. Retrieved February 24, 2018 . 
9. ^ Julia Dettke: German Berlinale Films: Tailwind from All Sides . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 17, 2018]).
10. ↑ 28th Filmkunstfest MV: Ten Films - Ten Opinions | svz.de . In: svz . ( svz.de [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
11. ↑ Schauspiel Köln - La Bella Confusione, by Julian Pörksen - 23.01.2019, 8 p.m. Retrieved January 24, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Compass Perspective Award & Compagnon Award. Retrieved February 20, 2019 . 
13. ↑ News> News • Catholic diocese of the old Catholics in Germany. Retrieved November 9, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Interview with Isabelle Daniel Goethe-Institut Prague, March 2014, accessed on February 15, 2019
15. ↑ Tanja Beeskow: New series with Kostja Ullmann: "From the diary of an Uber driver". Retrieved November 9, 2019 .