Mara Genschel

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Mara Genschel at a reading at the Poetry Festival Berlin 2015

Mara Genschel (* 1982 in Bonn ) is a German writer and performer .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Mara Genschel studied musicology in Cologne and until 2004 school music at the Detmold University of Music, majoring in violin . From 2004 to 2008 she studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . In 2008 she made her debut with the volume of poems Tonbrand Schlaf , which was received controversially. The artist book Vom Nachtalpenweg in collaboration with Valeri Scherstjanoi 2009 was followed by increasingly conceptual publications. With the ongoing series of booklets Reference area in self-distribution (handwritten processing of the prints; self-distribution without ISBN), Genschel has been testing a form of publication since 2012 outside the conventional book trade. For the radio play War of the manifestos - Futurism conquered Europe by Bernd Kempker that the WDR produced in February 2009 by the German Academy of Performing Arts as the month radio play was excellent, Mara Genschel put the music together.

In 2015, Bertram Reinecke published a material volume on her work. In 2017 and 2018, cute thoughts (roughbooks) and Gablenberger Tagblatt (brueterich press) were two more individual publications that can no longer be clearly assigned to a specific genre.

Genschel's field of work also extends to radio works, installations and performances. In addition to programs for the JetztMusik series on SWR2 , her radio play Villa Genschel was broadcast on Hr2-kultur in 2017 . She showed installation work at the Kunsttempel Kassel, the Forum Stadtpark Graz, at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and in the Tranzit in Bucharest .

In addition to dedicated stage work, Genschel often designs performances spontaneously and in response to invitations to public appearances such as readings or lectures.

Mara Genschel lives in Berlin.

reception

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reviewed Genschel's debut volume of poems Tonbrand Schlaf in 2008 under the title Bulettenexperiment : “Some things sound like Jandl , others like Kling, to whom she dedicates one of the poems. Or are they rudiments of poems? [...] A diary note, pimped up typographically - but a poem? "

literaturkritik.de sums up: “Mara Genschel does not level her texts down to a clarified poetical correctness , but allows not only language doubts but also extremes and thus doubting. Contemporary poetry would benefit from more of this radical writing attitude. "

SWR2 , the cultural program of Südwestrundfunk, dedicated a radio broadcast to her in September 2008, describing her with "Music and words, sound and meaning - these are the poles around which her work revolves" and broadcast her short radio play The Blind Poet .

In 2013, Tobias Amslinger examined Genschel's unusual publication strategy in the journal Kritische Ausgabe . With her ongoing series of booklets, Reference Area (handwritten processing of the prints; self-distribution without ISBN ), Genschel is currently trying out a form of publication that goes beyond the conventional book trade.

Awards and grants

Works

Single track

  • Clay burn sleep . Poems. Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung Peter Hinke, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937799-31-5 , 76 pages, brochure with flaps.
  • From the Nachtalpenweg (with Valeri Scherstjanoi ). [Glossolalien und Lauttexte] .. Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2009, 28 pages, bound + audio CD [36 minutes].
  • Reference area . Continuous series, so far 5 issues. Berlin, self-published.
  • Bertram Reinecke (Ed.): Mara Genschel Material . Reinecke & Voß , Leipzig 2015.
  • Cute thoughts , roughbooks , Berlin and Schupfart, 2017, 96 pages
  • Gablenberger Tagblatt , Brüterich Press , Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-945229-17-0
  • For sessions. Documents about domestication (with Anca Bucur), edition frACTalia , Bucharest 2018

Radio broadcasts

  • Speaker role and music in: War of Manifestos - Futurism Conquers Europe by Bernd Kempker WDR3, 2009
  • That I have to, what is not in accordance! (JetztMusik) SWR2, 2014
  • About royal shaped sanitary ware (JetztMusik) SWR2, 2015
  • Villa Genschel - radio play (Artists Corner) HR2, 2017
  • Geile Stellen (JetztMusik) SWR2, 2019

Stage work (selection)

  • The kiss (scaled-down cast) - for voice, violin and feed - UA sound campaigns Munich 2009
  • play * - acousmatic reading for 14 loudspeakers, neon tubes and radios. Music: Martin Schüttler - World Premiere Hildesheim Prosanova 2011; 60 '
  • LAPSUS - walk-in reading - premiere in the series Carte Blanche (FGNM) Wiesbaden 2015
  • Büro Dilletantisme - for A4 printer and open microphone - UA Musik 21 Hannover 2017
  • Exercises from another millennium - performance with auxiliary booklet - UA kook.mono Berlin 2018

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b meatball experiment . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b By Tobias Amslinger: Unchecked Sprachwut - About Mara Genschel's poetry debut "Tonbrand Schlaf": literaturkritik.de. Retrieved on August 21, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ a b Tobias Amslinger: Not a masterpiece. On Mara Genschel's poetic delimitation. In: Critical Edition. Journal for German Studies & Literature, 25, 2013, pp. 93–95. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ War of Manifestos - Futurism Conquers Europe . Dradio online
  5. ↑ hördat.de
  6. ^ Mara Genschel | Reinecke & Voss. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Mara Genschel: Cute thoughts. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ News. Retrieved on August 21, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Machete . SWR 2 online
  10. ↑ International Writing Program
  11. ↑ International Writer's Workshop
personal data
SURNAME Genschel, Mara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn