Kathrin Passig

Kathrin Passig (2009)

Kathrin Passig (born June 4, 1970 in Deggendorf ) is a German journalist and writer . In 2006 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

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Passig finished her university studies (among others with Hartmut Eggert ) with a Magister. She describes herself as a " non-fiction author and thinker" and occasionally works as a newspaper journalist. Her books have been translated into eleven languages. Journalistic articles appeared in the Berliner Zeitung , the daily newspaper , GEO , c't , Merkur , Spiegel Online , Zeit Online , NZZ and in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Her columns , written with Holm Friebe , were published as books for the Berliner Zeitung and columns she wrote with Ira Strübel for the taz . Their jointly made up stories also appear in the NZZ .

In 2000, Ira Strübel and Kathrin Passig published Die Wahl der Qual , a non-fiction book about sadomasochism . In 1999 Passig, who lives in Berlin, was one of the founders of BDSM Berlin e. V. , of which she was a member of the board until 2009. Passig translated some books from English into German, for example Chronicles Volume One , the memoirs of Bob Dylan and the collected sayings of George W. Bush (both with Gerhard Henschel ).

With people from the environment of the Luke & Trooke fanzine and the Internet forum Höfliche Paparazzi , she founded the so-called Central Intelligence Agency in Berlin in 2002 , in which she was managing director until summer 2009. The projects Random Shirt (since 2011, an “experiment in artificial stupidity”) and Technology Diary (since 2014, a collaborative blog to document the handling of everyday technology and its changes) emerged later .

Awards

The weblog giant machine operated by the ZIA , in which Passig is significantly involved both in terms of content and in the development of the software, received a Grimme Online Award in 2006 .

With her literary debut, the short story You are here , which describes the distress and confusion of a person freezing to death in the snow in the form of an inner monologue , Passig won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the Kelag Audience Prize at the Klagenfurt Days of German-Language Literature in 2006 . In 2016 Passig was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay .

The author's blog Techniktagebuch , which Passig founded, received the Grimme Online Award in the culture and entertainment category in 2019 .

Others

• Kathrin Passig is face-blind and narcoleptic .
• In the best-selling novel by Gerhard Henschel hero Martin Schlosser maintains a loose, literarisiertes relation to a fictionalized Kathrin Passignano. The first-person narrator is quite taken with Kathrin. “Your library was well sorted. I feasted on the sight of the spines of books: I would not have been bored in this apartment without the hostess. ”(Page 307)

Works

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Lecture by Kathrin Passig at re: publica 2013: "Mass Customization: There is even more"

• with Ira Strübel : The choice of agony. Manual for sadomasochists and those who want to become one. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 978-3-499-62408-7 . 2nd, revised edition 2009, DNB 986773565
• with Holm Friebe : The next big thing. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-62293-9 . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2006
• with Aleks Scholz : Lexicon of ignorance. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-569-2 .
• with Ira Strübel: Strübel & Passig. taz columns. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-97-3 .
• with Sascha Lobo : getting things sorted - without a spark of self-discipline. Rowohlt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-87134-619-4 .
• with Aleks Scholz: getting lost. A guide for beginners and advanced users. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-640-8 .
• with Aleks Scholz, Kai Schreiber : The new lexicon of ignorance. Rowohlt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-698-9 .
• with Sascha Lobo: Internet - Blessing or Curse , Rowohlt, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-87134-755-9 .
• Standard situations of technology criticism . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-26048-7 .
• with Johannes Jander: Less bad programming. O'Reilly, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89721-567-2 .
• You are here . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-644-52111-7 (e-book)
• Maybe that's new and enjoyable. Technology. Literature. Criticism . Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-99059-029-4 .
• with Aleks Scholz : Handbook for time travelers. From the dinosaurs to the fall of the wall . Rowohlt, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7371-0085-4 .

Translations

• Bill Naughton: Alfie . German by Kathrin Passig and Marcus Gärtner. Rowohlt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26923-3 .
• Christopher Isherwood: Farewell, Berlin . German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passig. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 3-455-40500-2 .
• Ned Beauman: Glow . German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passig. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 3-455-40454-5 .
• Bob Dylan / Robert Santelli: The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956–1966 . German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passig. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005.
• Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume One . German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passig. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09385-X .
• Harlan Coben: The Insider . From the American by Gunnar Kwisinski and Kathrin Passig. Goldmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-44534-9 .
• Jacob Weisberg: Again, completely wrong, Mr. President! More true words from George W. Bush . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003.
• Jacob Weisberg: Totally wrong, Mr. President! True words from George W. Bush. German by Gerhard Henschel and Kathrin Passig. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-61619-X .
• William Marshall: Hong Kong crash . Translated from the English by Kathrin Passig. Rotbuch, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88022-445-5 .

Audio productions

• You are here. Audio CD. Argon, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86610-199-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kathrin Passig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Kathrin Passig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Kathrin Passig in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Kathrin Passig at perlentaucher.de
• Videos by and about Kathrin Passig in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library
• Kathrin Passig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website
• Kathrin Passig at the Bachmann Prize 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 201.
2. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 202.
3. ↑ Kathrin Passig, Ira Strübel: In dealing with the homeless . In: NZZ , January 3, 2015, p. 22
4. ↑ On the criticism of algorithms. Why was this recommended to me? , SZ, January 7, 2012
5. ↑ Text from You are here at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2006.
6. ^ Prize winner 2016. deutscheakademie.de, accessed on July 1, 2016
7. ↑ Technology diary. Retrieved June 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Linkradar: The hour between woman and guitar, dm copy, Cory Doctorow. September 14, 2015, accessed on December 12, 2018 (German). 
9. ↑ Kathrin Passig - About waking and sleeping. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .