Kat Kaufmann
Ekaterina "Kat" Kaufmann (* 1981 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a Russian - German film and theater composer and writer .
Life
Kaufmann is the daughter of the theater director Küf Kaufmann and a ballet dancer. In the early 1990s the family emigrated to Germany after continued discrimination. She lived in a refugee shelter in Saxony-Anhalt for a year before the family moved to Leipzig .
After finishing school, Kaufmann studied jazz singing . She then completed her studies at the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam . Kaufmann lives and works in Berlin.
Her debut novel Superposition , the story of the 26-year-old jazz musician Izy Lewin, was published in Berlin in 2015 , the daughter of Jewish immigrants from St. Petersburg . In the same year the novel was awarded the aspekte literature prize. Kaufmann had succeeded "in her debut novel Superposition in a great way to ask the big questions of our time anew," said the jury. Kaufmann describes “the problematic existence of her heroine strictly through their eyes. What emerges in this way is the sound of an attitude towards life, ”writes Der Spiegel . For the reviewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the novel captivates with angry thoughts. In some places you can "perceive a new, interesting tone, linguistic gold nuggets that briefly flash". Far too often, however, Kaufmann relies “solely on snotty pathos and images of Berlin that have become dull”.
Works
- Superposition . Novel. Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-40534-7 .
- The night is loud, the day is dark . Novel. Verlag Hoffmann and Campe (Tempo), Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-00105-1 .
Film music
- 2011: Artists
- 2013: Police call 110 - catwalk to death
- 2017: crime scene - night vision
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Kat Kaufmann at perlentaucher.de
- Julia Bähr: "At some point I want to write a great classic" . Interview on FAZ.net , October 19, 2015
- Kat 'Rocket' merchant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kat Kaufmann's website
- Music by Kat Kaufmann on Soundcloud
- Talking is money - the podcast with Nina Sonnenberg : Kat Kaufmann: "After the Rolex my father was quiet" on detektor.fm ( download mp3, 34 min. )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanna Engelmeier: Kat Kaufmann: Wilder Scheiß . In: The time . No. 41 , 2015 ( zeit.de ).
- ↑ aspects: And the Winner is: Kat Kaufmann. (No longer available online.) In: zdf.de. October 9, 2015, archived from the original ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Frank Thadeusz: Kat Kaufmann's "Superposition": Russian table setting in Berlin. In: Spiegel Online . December 10, 2015, accessed April 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Hannes Vollmuth: "Superposition" by Kat Kaufmann: Anger in the head . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 26, 2016 ( online [accessed April 3, 2016]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaufmann, cat |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaufmann, Ekaterina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German film and theater composer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad , Soviet Union |