Marc Degens

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Marc Degens (born August 18, 1971 in Essen ) is a German writer , editor , publisher and novelist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Marc Degens studied German and sociology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . As a member of the German Donaldists , he wrote his master's thesis on the forms and functions of comic quotations in contemporary German-language literature. He was a member of the music groups Stendal Blast , The Very Young Dilettanten and Superschiff . Since 1995 he has been the program manager of the Berlin independent publishing house SUKULTUR . From 2000 to 2012 Degens was the publisher and literary editor of the internet culture magazine satt.org and curated events, traveling exhibitions and literary festivals etc. a. in Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. From 2007 to 2010 he lived in Yerevan (Armenia) and from 2014 to 2018 in Toronto (Canada). Degens has lived in Hamburg since 2019 .

Literary work

His work includes novels, short stories, essays, poems, reviews and feature pages. His texts appear in newspapers, magazines (including Akzente , Der Zeiten, Am Erker , Kultur & Gespenster , Merkur , Der Rabe , Testcard ) and anthologies. Degens became known with the novel column "Our Popmoderne", which appeared from 2001 to 2002 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and from 2005 to 2012 in the Austrian literary magazine Volltext . In 2012 Degens was a participant in the literature festival "New Literature from Europe" in New York. In 2014, on his initiative, the signature list “Thirty for Wolfgang Welt” was published, in which 30 well-known writers, journalists and literary scholars demanded that Wolfgang Welt be awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize .

As editor

From 1996-2015 sword has the first 147 volumes of the series Beautiful Read published and the first 11 volumes of the series "Enlightenment and criticism", which are sold in vending machines and candy were sold in Berlin over 100 000 times. From 2000 to 2012 he was editor and literary editor of the internet culture magazine satt.org . 2009 appeared in SuKuLTuR Verlag, edited by him and mitlektorierte novel Strobo the blogger Airen , the focus of debate about plagiarism Helene Hegemann 's debut novel Axolotl Roadkill stood. In 2017 he published the metamorphoses special issue “Alle Meine Ex-Freunde” on Alt Lit , New Sincerity and autobiographical writing with digital writing tools. Since 2019 he has been editor of the book series Sunburn - series for auto fictions .

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“Marc Degens emerged as a novelist, but also as a publisher, literary impresario, inventor of various formats inside and outside the internet, even as a member of a pop group. Anyone who has ever seen it in action - for example in the Berliner Kaffee Burger - had to recognize that the venerable literary-performative tradition that founded the Zurich Cabaret Voltaire is extremely lively and capable of interesting changes. "

- Michael Rutschky

Awards

  • 2020: Working grant in the mare artist house of the Roger Willemsen Foundation
  • 2019: Shortlist for the 2nd German Book Trailer Award (for a self-produced Yerevan book trailer)
  • 2018: Nomination for the Hotlist Book Prize of the independent publishers (for Yerevan )
  • 2014: Sponsorship award for the Hugo Ball Prize of the city of Pirmasens
  • 2013: Working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW (for Fuckin Sushi )
  • 2011: VOStomps award from the city of Mainz (for SUKULTUR)
  • 2010: Town clerk in Novi Sad , Serbia
  • 2005: Working grant from the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation in the Villa Decius in Krakow
  • 2002: Working grant from the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture (for no art here )

Works

Novels

  • Fuckin sushi. Novel. Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9747-6 .
  • The broken knee of God. Novel. Knaus Verlag, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3813504-26-2 .
  • No art here. Novel. Erata Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2008.
  • Vanity Love. Novel. Alkyon Verlag, Weissach i. T. 1997.

Stories, essays, prose (selection)

  • Toronto. Records from Canada. Mairisch Verlag, Hamburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-938539-59-0
  • Yerevan. Records from Armenia. With 124 photos by the author. Ille & Riemer, Leipzig 2018. ISBN 978-3-95420-031-3
  • Our pop modern. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-940426-59-8
  • Differ. About books, comics, music. Erata Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2009.
  • Dismantling. With an afterword by David Wagner. Narrative. SUKULTUR, Berlin 2003.

Editions (selection)

  • Sunburn. Auto-fiction series. SUKULTUR, Berlin, since 2019.
  • All of my ex-friends. Metamorphoses 17th Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017.
  • Beautiful reading 1-147. SUKULTUR, Berlin 1996–2015.
  • Enlightenment and Criticism 501-511. SUKULTUR, Berlin 1996–2015.
  • Airen: Strobo . Novel. Berlin 2009.

Radio plays

  • Jarek Grzesica: Trying to write about something other than myself. Radio play based on texts by Marc Degens. First broadcast: Radio Kopernikus, August 11, 2005.

music

  • Super ship: women. 2003.
  • Superschiff: We are superschiff. 2002.
  • Stendal Blast: garbage. 1993.

literature

  • Michael Rutschky: Laudation for Marc Degens. In: Hugo Ball Almanach. New episode 6. Munich [edition text + kritik] 2015. pp. 127–131.

Web links

Commons : Marc Degens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Interviews with Degens

  • "I think I have a very missionary streak." In: Walter Gödden, Thomas Strauch (ed.): "I write because ...". Bielefeld [Aisthesis-Verlag] 2011. pp. 55-58.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 24.
  2. ↑ See satt.org, February 2001, accessed on October 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ This and many other biographical information from Literaturport , accessed on August 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Thirty for Wolfgang Welt, satt.org, June 15, 2014, accessed on March 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ "SuKuLTuR is 100,000" . The hotlist blog , October 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Editor: Hugo Ball would have liked that, Merkur Blog, March 21, 2014, accessed on November 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ The shortlist . futurepublish.berlin, accessed on January 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Degens, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH eat