Lorenz Just
Lorenz Just (* 1983 Halle an der Saale) is a German scholar of Islam and writer .
life and work
Just moved to East Berlin with his parents in 1988 . He studied Islamic Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . During his studies he traveled through Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Iran; in Lebanon he worked at the Orient Institute in Beirut . From 2011 to 2015 he studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig .
In 2017 he released his debut The Evil Man , a collection of loosely interlinked narratives. In his novel Am Rand der Dächer , published in 2020, Just tells of the anarchic childhood in Berlin after the fall of the Wall. He does not follow an adult perspective, but rather child and youthful decision-making patterns and thought structures. Without transfiguration, the mood of a decade of two states is captured, the promise of freedom, the end of illusions and a time without fixed structures.
His debut novel Am Rand der Dächer is set in Berlin in the 1990s.
Works
- At the edge of the roofs . Novel. Dumont, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-8321-8111-6 .
- The bad man. Stories. Dumont, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9879-4 .
- Mohammed. The unknown life of the prophet. Gabriel, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-522-30421-4 .
- Shortly before the end. In: Michael Hametner (Hrsg.): Die Taubenjägerin: The best stories from the MDR literature competition 2014. Poetenladen, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-940691-57-6 .
- Text of a talk. In: Inga Kerber (Ed.): Catalog raisonné (clichés). Spector Books, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-940064-76-9 .
- “The 'natural' order of the world”: A study on the Chronicle of Rašiduddin Fażlullah-i Hamadanis. EB, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86893-064-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lorenz Just in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Lorenz Just in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Lorenz Just at perlentaucher.de
- Lorenz Just on the Dumont-Verlag website (with picture)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author entry on the Gabriel Verlag website, accessed January 4, 2018.
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Dreaming without sleeping. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.rbb-online.de/rbbkultur/radio/programm/schema/sendung/rbbkultur_am_nachmitt/archiv/20200804_1505/zu_gast_1610.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Just, Lorenz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |