Lukas Rietzschel

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Lukas Rietzschel (2018)

Lukas Rietzschel (born March 16, 1994 in Räckelwitz ) is a German author .

Life

Lukas Rietzschel grew up in Kamenz in Upper Lusatia in Saxony . He studied political science and German at the University of Kassel , which is an entry requirement there even without a high school diploma. After leaving Kassel, Rietzschel studied cultural management at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences . The subject of his master's thesis is the design for a Jewish museum in Görlitz, where the author currently lives. Lukas Rietzschel is helping to build the literary house in the Old Synagogue in Görlitz to create a place for encounters and discussions.

In 2015 Rietzschel took part in the “ Young Authors Meeting ” for the first time. An excerpt from the text Above the Plastic Roof, the Stars , which was presented at the meeting at the time , is placed online :

“And I got the impression that they felt shaken off, reunited, but left alone and that no one would care about them, not their opinions, not their history. 'That's not how I imagined it would be,' said a woman, Andreas's cousin and a couple of them nodded. But this self-pity did not lead to anything, it sank, as it was pronounced. "

Rietzschel joined the SPD in 2017 and is a member of the board of the Görlitz local association of the SPD.

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In 2012 Rietzschel's first publication appeared in ZEIT magazine . After that, other texts by him appeared there. Lukas Rietzschel has also written shorter texts for other newspapers and published them in various anthologies , including an excerpt from the follow-up novel to his successful book Hit the world with a fist .

"Hit the world with your fist"

novel

In September 2018, Lukas Rietzschel published the novel Hit the world with his fist on the story of the residents of the village of Neschwitz in the lignite mining area of ​​Upper Lusatia in Saxony between 2000 and 2015.

The protagonists of the “ coming-of-age novel ” are two brothers, Philipp and Tobi (as) Zschornack, whose development is told in three “books”. The "1. Book "covers the years 2000 to 2004, the" 2. Book "the years 2004 to 2006, the" 3. Book "finally the years 2013 to 2015. In the 1st book Tobias is a primary school student, in the 2nd book" Mittelschüler "and in the 3rd book young workers. Both brothers are attracted to a constantly present young adult named Menzel, a neo-Nazi who in the 2010s made a point of not being able to be identified as such straight away. Tobias succumbs to his radicalizing influence, while Philipp visibly breaks away from it in the end.

According to Rietzschel, the literary Neschwitz is representative of many places. The novel also contains flashbacks to the time of the existence of the GDR and the time of the fall as well as the period immediately after the fall . “Anger seems to be the only remaining attitude of a society that has lost its ability to discourse. First, the fall of the Berlin Wall took over all of the rituals and things it had learned over the generations, then the Treuhand took over the economy, and finally unemployment and emigration took care of the infrastructure and social cohesion, ”says Marc Reichwein. Lukas Rietzschel questions the inevitability of the development assumed in this analysis in the interview given during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 with ZDF by answering yes to the question of whether the parents of the two main characters in the novel are “turning winners”. The Zscharnack brothers are not doing badly materially as young adults either. As children, they “stumble into the identity vacuum” (according to Rietzschel), which is also characteristic of their parents. The life path of the children is not predetermined.

At Rietzschel's request, the reading tour for the novel did not start in Berlin, the headquarters of the Ullstein publishers, but in Görlitz.

Edits for the stage

From September 2019, several drama versions of the novel Hit the world with my fist were performed on the stages of German theaters.

  • On September 13, 2019, a version developed by Lukas Rietzschel himself as well as by Liesbeth Coltof and Julia Weinreich was premiered at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden .
  • On September 26, 2019, the premiere of a version of the drama staged by Martin Grünheit took place in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .
  • On January 29, 2020, Thomas Martin's adaptation of the novel was performed for the first time in the Heilbronn Theater .
  • Another version of the play comes from the director Swen Lasse Awe and is to be performed for the first time on April 2, 2020 in the New Theater Halle (“shop window”) .

reception

Matthias Schmidt from MDR Kultur rates the novel Striking the world with his fist as “the ultimate novel about the East of the 2000s.” Volker Weidermann gave an article in Spiegel magazine the title: “We are fewer”. With this, he expresses his opinion that the confidence that the motto " We are more " expresses at a concert that took place on September 3, 2018 in Chemnitz is questionable . Weidermann's assessment that rights in large parts of Saxony have already achieved political-cultural dominance is confirmed by reading Rietzschel's novel.

In September 2018, Cornelia Geißler was surprised to find that Rietzschel had "become an expert on the East" before the work was published. The author commented on the role ascribed to the MDR Sachsen with the words: “I gladly accept the role because for a long time I found it negative that when you talked about the East and especially about Saxony, you didn't talk much with Saxony Lukas Rietzschel had already said at the Young Authors' Meeting in 2015: "Literature is perhaps the most likely to answer why, for example, people in Dresden take to the streets."

The thesis that Rietzschel's debut novel contains enough material for a coherent explanation for the fact that young men become neo-Nazis is also viewed with skepticism. Felix Bayer puts an article by Spiegel Online under the central question: “Did Lukas Rietzschel write the book in his mid-20s that explains how young Saxons become right-wing violent criminals?” Lukas Rietzschel took Bayer on an exploratory trip through the real Neschwitz . Bayer struggles to fade out this impression while strolling through the town, which looks idyllic to him due to buildings like the renovated baroque palace , so that he can imagine Neschwitz as a “desolate place”, an “idyll of neglect”. Despite the consistently restricted view of Neschwitz, the book is, according to Bayer, a “good novel”. Cornelia Geißler has similar problems, who, on a bus trip organized by Ullstein-Verlag, had to think about abandoned lignite mines that Europe's largest artificial lake landscape was emerging here.

The newspaper Neues Deutschland published a detailed portrait of Lukas Rietzschel in September 2018. The author shares the criticism of the Leipzig literary scholar Silke Horstkotte , according to which one should read the novel as a novel and not as a “text that explains reality”: “A novel is a fictional text. It does not depict reality, but simulates reality. If you read the novel as an explanation for the East, you don't understand it as a simulation, but as an image. ”The fact that the book does not“ depict reality ”can already be seen from the fact that it contains what can be observed in reality Radicalization of women does not occur. Rietzschel is aware that in this respect he conveys a problematic image of women.

Celestine Hassenfratz sums up statements by journalists in her ND article that, in her opinion, contain misjudgments: “The story in which Lukas Rietzschel is the uneducated author, the literary underdog, one without a high school diploma, one who is almost Nazi, but then Having become a writer is beginning to crumble. ”Rietzschel was the son of a tiler and a nurse, but not“ poorly educated ”, and there was never an acute danger that he or his brother would have become Nazis. The lack of a high school diploma was not a problem thanks to the admissions practice at the University of Kassel . The alleged " underdog " Rietzschel never had to fight for his manuscript to be published.

In January 2019, a New Right medium also dealt with Rietzschel's novel. In “ Secession ”, Ellen Kositza expressed her “fear” that school reading would hit the world with her fist . Because the novel is literarily badly done. “[A] As high literature, it is at best moderate. There is no deep insight - not to speak of "tension" - and linguistically it lacks badly: What should the seconds style, these hundreds of sentences without verb, tell us in the context of this tediousness? ”The novel has not only linguistic but also content deficiencies on. The main character Menzel lacks contouring. He was "a kind of head of a kind of Nazi scene".

Matthias Schmidt, on the other hand, rates Rietzschel's novels as “also literarily special”: “Rietzschel takes his characters seriously. All. To the limits of empathy, he says. […] He doesn't explain, evaluate or relativize anything: He just lets it happen. Concise, in short sentences, sometimes even without a verb. Very simple, and yet very artfully constructed. Famously written! "

Awards and nominations

Works

  • Home defense by all means . 54stories.de. December 20, 2016 ( [1] )
  • Hit the world with your fist . Novel . Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-05066-4 .
  • Generation Y - Chemnitz: Solidarity, finally! Time campus. September 16, 2018 ( online )
  • Gundermann: Frau Liebau's favorite song . The time. Edition 50/2018. December 3, 2018 ( online )
  • Lausitz: And now you're looking . The time. Edition 5/2019. January 24, 2019 ( online )

Movies and Podcasts

Web links

Commons : Lukas Rietzschel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Rietzschel: How quickly freedom can disappear. In: Zeit Online. April 20, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Felix Bayer: Saxon author Lukas Rietzschel "You can talk to the East about the East" . Mirror online. September 16, 2018, accessed February 16, 2020
  3. ↑ Philipp Ettel book tip: "Hit the world with your fist" . sputnik.de. September 6, 2018, accessed February 16, 2020
  4. ↑ Favorite bookstore: Lukas Rietzschel about the Comenius bookstore in Görlitz. boersenblatt.net , published and accessed on September 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ The Ullstein book publishers presented highlights from the autumn program . buchmarkt.de. June 7, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018.
  6. ^ Federal Ministry of Education and Research : Lukas Rietzschel - 21 years from Kassel (Hesse) . In: Berliner Festspiele . 30. Meeting of young authors. November 19 to 23, 2015, p. 38 f. (36 f.), Accessed on September 15, 2018.
  7. ^ SPD Görlitz: Board of Directors . Accessed January 30, 2020
  8. ↑ Karin Großmann: The real political thriller takes place in the local club. In: Saxon newspaper. September 6, 2019, p. 13.
  9. ^ SZ / sb: Görlitzer SPD has its own OB candidate. In: Sächsische Zeitung , October 2, 2018, accessed on September 11, 2019.
  10. ↑ Lukas Rietzschel: The I-AG . faz.net, October 30, 2019, accessed January 30, 2020
  11. ↑ Michael Wurmitzer: "Hit the world with your fist": Where the real hatred in Chemnitz comes from . DerStandard.de. September 14, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  12. ^ Marc Reichwein: Dismantling East . welt.de . September 13, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018.
  13. ^ Görlitz: Book premiere about anger in the Saxon province . MDR Saxony. September 7, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018.
  14. ↑ Staatsschauspiel Dresden: Hit the world with your fist . Retrieved January 29, 2020
  15. ↑ Matthias Schmidt: Premiere in Dresden: "Hit the world with your fist" - How does a person become a neo-Nazi? . MDR culture . September 14, 2019, accessed January 29, 2020.
  16. ↑ Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus: Hit the world with your fist . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  17. ^ Theater Heilbronn: Hit the world with your fist . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  18. ↑ Hit the world with your fist. On the website of the Theater Halle, accessed on February 17, 2020
  19. ^ Matthias Schmidt: Lukas Rietzschel convinces with his novel about right-wing extremism in Saxony . MDR culture. September 10, 2018
  20. ↑ Volker Weidermann: We are less . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 37/2018. September 8, 2018, p. 120 ff.
  21. ↑ Nina May: Author Rietzschel: "The concert in Chemnitz still contributes to the split" . lvz.de . 3rd September 2018.
  22. ↑ Cornelia Geißler: “Hit the world with your fist”. Where anger grows up - on the go with Lukas Rietzschel, who wrote a novel about boys in East Saxony . . fr.de . September 2, 2018, accessed September 13, 2018.
  23. ↑ Mark Heywinkel: The future of German literature reads here . ze.tt GmbH. 2015, accessed September 14, 2018.
  24. ↑ Felix Bayer: "You can talk to the East about the East" . Spiegel Online . September 16, 2018, accessed September 17, 2018.
  25. ↑ Paul Jandl: Everything is going down the drain. Lukas Rietzschel's debut novel about East German conditions . nzz.ch . October 31, 2018. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  26. ↑ Celestine Hassenfratz: 'Sometimes I think you're crazy.' Feuilletons paint a picture of the Saxon novelist Lukas Rietzschel, which fits into the time of Chemnitz and Köthen. But the young writer disagrees. In: Neues Deutschland , 22./23. September 2018, pp. 18-19, accessed on September 24, 2018.
  27. ↑ Silke Horstkotte: #Rietzschel . twitter.com. September 10, 2018, accessed September 24, 2018.
  28. ↑ Simon Sahner: In "Places that end with" ow "or" itz "" - A classification of "Hit the world with your fist" by Lukas Rietzschel . 54books.de . September 21, 2018, accessed December 26, 2018
  29. ↑ Anna Stahl: Lukas Rietzschel: "It's not about change, but about the abolition of democracy" . dasmilieu.eu . October 15, 2018, accessed December 26, 2018
  30. ↑ Ellen Kositza: Lukas Rietzschel: Hit the world with your fist . sezession.de. January 29, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019
  31. ↑ Julia Hemmerling: Lukas Rietzschel convinces with a novel about right-wing extremism in Saxony. Interview with Matthias Schmidt . MDR culture. Retrieved January 29, 2020
  32. ↑ Six novel debuts are in the finals , boersenblatt.net, September 7, 2018, accessed on September 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Rietzschel, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Räckelwitz