Kevin Kuhn

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Kevin Kuhn at a reading at HAM.LIT 2013

Kevin Kuhn (born December 23, 1981 in Göttingen ) is a German writer .

Life

Kuhn grew up in Ulm . After graduating from the Free Waldorf School at Illerblick, Kuhn studied philosophy , art history and religious studies at the University of Tübingen , as well as creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim . From 2010 to 2019 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Literary Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Hildesheim , where he held seminars on literary plots and dystopian literature. In addition to publications in literary magazines ( e.g. BELLA triste ) and anthologies , he collaborates with designers and artists.

In 2012 he published his debut novel Hikikomori , which is about a young person who retreats into his room and only communicates via the Internet. The novel was well received by literary critics. Nils Minkmar described the novel in the FAZ as “a sharp-sighted book. Great art. ”The novel was published in 2017 by Eksmo Verlag in Russia. Since 2020, Hikikomori has been the Abitur focus topic ("Living in digital worlds") in the state of Bremen .

In 2017, his second novel, Liv , was published, an educational novel that combines two narrative strands. This double novel is about the young Internet-savvy Israeli Liv and Franz, who lives in Berlin in the twenties. The main line follows the young Liv, who embarks on a trip around the world to avoid military service. She is digitally native, mobile and always connected to her friends and relatives via smartphone. On her journey, she steadily increases the number of her followers until she exaggerates her self-exposure via livestream and becomes the hunted. At the same time, the story of Franz is told, a young man who lives in the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties and who records the glittering nightlife with his Leica.

In 2019, Kuhn received his doctorate from the University of Hildesheim with a thesis on aesthetic novel drafts and writing processes. In 2020 the book The Aesthetics of the Novel Design was published in the series On Genealogy of Writing by Wilhelm Fink Verlag . On the basis of Heinrich Böll and Sylvia Plath , it is examined, for example, how such designs in the border area between image and writing enable the dynamic structure of a novel stage and the collision of the characters

Kuhn also lived abroad, including in Alaska and three years in Mexico City . Today the author lives in New Zealand .

Awards

Works

Novels

monograph

  • The aesthetics of the novel draft (on the genealogy of writing, vol. 26). Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn, Leiden, Boston, Singapore 2020, ISBN 978-3-7705-6537-5 .

Further contributions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uni-hildesheim.de
  2. ↑ Kevin Kuhn: Hikikomori. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Favorite book - Hikikomori by Kevin Kuhn. Conversation with Lydia Herms. (No longer available online.) Radioeins rbb, September 6, 2012, archived from the original on October 12, 2012 ; Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Kevin Kuhn: Mediales / Presse ( Memento from December 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ FAS: The hermit in the nursery. In: FAZ.net . October 6, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ https://eksmo.ru/book/khikikomori-ITD843385/
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen