Katja Kullmann

Katja Kullmann

Katja Kullmann (born July 16, 1970 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German author .

Life

Kullmann studied sociology , political science and American studies in Frankfurt am Main and completed a traineeship as a news editor at the German Press Agency (dpa). As editor and department head she was u. a. works for Gruner + Jahr and the Jahreszeiten Verlag . As a freelance journalist, she writes a. a. for the FAZ , taz , der Freitag , Emma , Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich) and Datum (Vienna).

Katja Kullmann writes short stories and non-fiction books and, as an essayist, mainly deals with gender issues, work, pop culture and social justice. She has published articles in various anthologies.

In 2002 her non-fiction book Generation Ally was published. Why is it so complicated today, to be a woman in the calibration fount publishing . The title makes ironic reference to the television series Ally McBeal and addresses the clichés and life plans of the “daughters of emancipation” (Kullmann), who “neither want to be a career monster nor mother Beimer, and certainly not a pit slut ” (blurb). In 2003 she received the German Book Prize in the non-fiction category.

In 2004 she published the story Progressing Heart Pain at Mild 18 degrees with Kiepenheuer & Witsch , in which she describes “a meeting of service proletariat and educated elite” (Kullmann): It is about the seemingly impossible love between a beautician and a feature editor.

In 2011 she published the non-fiction book Echtleben. Why it is so complicated today to have an attitude (Eichborn) in which she deals with the precarious employment conditions in the so-called creative industry and also describes her own transition period as a Hartz IV recipient in 2008. “It is a book that refutes the 'everything will be fine' rhetoric of the Merkel years and calculates the individual costs of a political fraud,” wrote Nils Minkmar in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .

In 2012 Kullmann published the report Raging Ruins. How Detroit reinvents itself at Suhrkamp Verlag .

After stays in London, Cologne, Hamburg and Zurich, Kullmann has been living in Berlin again since 2014 . From March 2016 to July 2017 she was deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper der Freitag . Since October 2017, Kullmann has been working in the newly created position of Head of Topics at taz .

Books

• Generation Ally. Why it is so difficult to be a woman today . Eichborn, 2002, ISBN 978-3821839189
• Progressive heart pain at a mild 18 degrees . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2004, ISBN 978-3462034042
• Real life. Why it is so complicated to have an attitude today . Eichborn, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8218-6535-5
• Frenzied ruins. How Detroit is reinventing itself . Suhrkamp, ​​2012 ISBN 978-3518062180

Contributions

• Paul P., 43, would like to have a wife . Contribution to anthology in times of rule. Of life among men . Dumont, 2009 ISBN 978-3832195212
• You don't have to hate them . Anthology contribution to The Pirate Party. Are you ready to board? . Bloomsbury, 2011 ISBN 978-3833308451
• Marie loves Mary . Contribution to anthology in Modern Love. Stories about love . Suhrkamp, ​​2013 ISBN 978-3-518-46427-4
• Hole-punched women. Wolfgang Welt and the women . Contribution to anthology in About Everything or Nothing. Approaches to the work of Wolfgang Welt . Aisthesis, 2013 ISBN 978-3-89528-996-5
• I paint houses - but it's about people. Expiration in XX format. A visit to the painter Anna Jander . Article in It's Soul . Kerber, 2013 ISBN 978-3-86678-866-4
• The Cinnamon Xmas Edition . Can come anthology contribution in Christmas . Suhrkamp, ​​2013 ISBN 978-3-518-46463-2
• That damn F-word problem . Text contribution in Stand up. Feminism for beginners and advanced . Rogner & Bernhard, 2014 ISBN 978-3-95403-044-6
• Dear Konstantin Perker . Text in Metamorphoses No. 37. Bohemian villages . Ivory Publishing House, 2014
• Ruin porn and lust for the future . Contribution to anthology in Learning from Detroit. New strategies for urban crisis management . Kadmos, 2014 ISBN 978-3-86599-246-8
• Ruth traveling . Short story in boarding, please! A literary and photographic journey of discovery . VBN Verlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3-941712-47-8

Awards

• 2003 German Book Prize in the non-fiction category
• 2013 Writer in Residence at Single House (New York State)

Web links

Commons : Katja Kullmann  - Collection of Images

• Katja Kullmann's website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Katja Kullmann at perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Katja Kullmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reviews and interviews on Generation Ally
   Heide Oestreich in the taz of June 3, 2002: "Attention, woman at the wheel!"
   Interview with literaturcafe.de on July 7, 2002: "Anger can be a refreshing force"
2. ↑ Reviews of progressive heart pains with a mild 18 degrees
   Deutschlandfunk from September 14, 2004: "Without Traumprinz"
   title culture magazine from September 24, 2004: "Die Kunstseidene Cosmetikerin"
   
3. ↑ reviews and interviews to real-life
   Nils Minkmar: "It is not worth to be diligent and formed" in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of 19 June 2011 Page 25
   Louis Lewitan in Time magazine : "I've eaten little and maintained contacts" on zeit.de from June 19, 2011, accessed on June 19, 2011
   Die Presse (Vienna) on July 2, 2011: “An up and down like in a film”
   Focus online from July 5, 2011: “Against beer back to the computer “
   Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich) from July 15, 2011: “ The Illusion of the Creative ”
   Deutschlandradio Kultur from July 20, 2011: “ A wake-up call to the creative precarious ”
   Jungle World from August 4, 2011: “ We don't call it poverty “
   Interview with the magazine Cicero from September 8, 2011: “ Once Hartz 4 and back ” ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2012 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. New Germany from November 8, 2011: "The middle - a contested raft" 
   
   
4. Jump up ↑ Reviews and interviews on Furious Ruins
   Review in Friday of April 16, 2012: "Is that really the new Berlin?"
   Interview with interview online from April 19, 2012: "Interview: Katja Kullmann"  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
   
5. ↑ Jakob Augstein brings Katja Kullmann into the chief editor. In: kress. Retrieved June 12, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Vita katjakullmann.de
7. ↑ hausblog: Personnel: Katja Kullmann is the new topic manager. On October 1st, Katja Kullmann, until July Vice Editor-in-Chief of Freitag, will move to Rudi-Dutschke-Straße. At taz she takes on the newly created position of Head of Topics. (No longer available online.) Www.taz.de, September 7, 2017, archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on September 7, 2017 . 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.  
8. ↑ Original article at perlentaucher.de from November 22, 2011: "You don't have to hate them"