Lucien Deprijck

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Lucien Deprijck (* 1960 in Cologne ) is a Belgian German-speaking writer and translator .

Life

Lucien Deprijck was born in Cologne in 1960 and grew up in Germany. He studied German , English and philosophy at the University of Cologne . For his literary work he chose the original Flemish spelling Deprijck instead of his real name Depryck . From 2003 to 2016 he was a member of the Cologne Authors' Workshop . He is the author of novels and short stories and a translator of English and American literature. He has translated texts by Mark Twain , Stephen Crane , Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Stevenson into German, among others .

Lucien Deprijck is married and has two children. He lives and works as a lecturer, author and translator in Cologne.

The islands that I'm stranded on

The islands on which I am stranded , published in spring 2012, is Deprijck's first literary publication that received a broad public reception. It consists of eighteen stories, each with a first-person narrator stranded on very different islands under very different circumstances. The first, shortest story consists of only a few sentences and is set on a bare rocky reef on which the narrator starves to death after a few days. Other stories, ten or more pages long, deal, among other things, with the exploration of the respective island, the search for food, the confrontation with other stranded people or the possibility of leaving the place. A narrator gets stranded in Mallorca and becomes a tourist attraction in the nearby hotel, one manages to save a little girl who is also stranded. Each story offers its own variation on the theme and differs from the others in the type of island, the narrator's point of view, the dangerousness of the situation, etc.

reception

Numerous reviews of the book appeared in newspapers and on the Internet:

"Deprijck's book contains variations of a literary topos that allow the author not only to invent an island and the experience of the stranded person, but to play through the topic in a very varied way." ( Bayern 2 , April 17, 2012)

"The islands, which range from tropical paradise to barren small rocks, are just as varied as the situations and the ends of the beach themselves." (Hafencity-Zeitung Hamburg, April 16, 2012)

“Nightmares, adventures, absurdities. There is no more beautiful beach. "(ZDF, Das Blaue Sofa , broadcast on March 30, 2012)

"The whole beautifully designed book is also a game of numbers and times, a mysteriously nested composition of powerful images, which are congenially reflected in the equally artistic fine illustrations by Christian Schneider." ( Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 25, 2012)

One last day of infinity

The novel was published in spring 2015 and covers one day of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's stay in Zurich . On July 30, 1750, some young Zurich scholars and friends of Klopstock organized a pleasure trip on Lake Zurich in his honor . Contrary to the strict mores of the time, a partner swap was staged between the men and women for the duration of the trip. Klopstock spoke from his Messiah , who deeply moved the audience in his sensitivity , and fell in love with the only seventeen year old Anna Maria Schinz. Klopstock later processed the experiences in one of his most famous odes, Der Zürchersee . The events are documented by numerous letters from the participants, upon which Deprijck builds the presentation. Aspects invented by the author are shown in the epilogue. Linguistically, the novel moves between an approach to the expression of the times and a moderate modernization. The plot is shown from changing perspectives, including Klopstocks, Schinz, Bodmers and Hirzels .

Publications

Individual publications

Articles and posts

  • Fascinated by the demonic, evil, obscure - on the 100th anniversary of the death of Robert Louis Stevenson in Die Welt, 1994
  • Century Summer (story), in: styx 96, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1997
  • Hemingway's precursor. The short, exciting life of Stephen Crane as a writer , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, supplement Pictures and Times, 1999
  • Futureworld (narration), in the anthology Zukunftsangst - Zukunftshoffnung : Prize Winner (Prose) in the literature competition of the FDB Düsseldorf, 2000
  • Ruth (poem), in: Fliegende Literatur Blätter , Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt, 2003
  • Epilogue to the Robert Louis Stevenson volume Master Tales , Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, 2003
  • Poetry and prose in the anthology Wortissimo of the literature group ERA, Ratingen, 2006
  • Leadership in the future (narration), in: Fair copy Volume 2, Cologne anthology, edited and with a foreword by Lucien Deprijck, Van Aaken Verlag, Cologne, 2007 ISBN 978-3-938244-07-4
  • Lena and reading (short story), in: Luna, Cologne, 2008
  • Three stories in the anthology Salto wortale by the literary group ERA, Ratingen, 2008
  • Poems in the anthology Liebeslänge (Liebesgedichte) published by Van Aaken Verlag, 2010

Translations

  • Stephen Crane: An Imagination in Red and White , in The Raven # 65, Two Thousand One , 2007.
  • Mark Twain's War Prayer in: Mark Twain, Cannibalism on the Train and Other Stories , Two Thousand One, 2010.
  • Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson: South Seas Years . An unusual marriage in diaries and letters. Mare Verlag, Hamburg, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86648-152-7 .
  • Stephen Crane: The Open Boat and Other Stories . Mare, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86648-263-0 .
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion in the Dunes . Mare, Hamburg 2018 ISBN 978-3-86648-295-1 .

radio

  • Campus Radio, Cologne: Story Behind the Mountains, on the other side , September 2005
  • Radio Neandertal, Literaturzeit , January 18, 2006
  • Radio Köln, J-Box : Texts and talk on the subject of time travel , January 4, 2007
  • SWR2 feature on Sunday . Show on the topic Risk first, then writing? Crisis and danger as a source of literary inspiration . In an interview (regarding Stephen Crane) with the author of the show Michael Reitz. April 1, 2007
  • Radio Cologne, Die Funkende Schatulle with a special on the reading series LiteRaten & Gewinnen , December 10, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendung/bayern-2-favoriten/buch/buch388.html ( Memento from May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Page access on May 2, 2012
  2. ↑ http://www.klessmann.net/?p=1931 Page access on May 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Video Das Blaue Sofa: Two more titles from the show (March 30, 2012)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on May 2, 2012. (offline)
  4. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendung/kritik/1738573/ Page access May 2, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Deprijck, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian German-speaking writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne