Marcus Braun

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Marcus Braun (born November 28, 1971 in Bullay on the Moselle ) is a German writer and painter.

Life

After graduating from high school in Wittlich in 1991 and doing civilian service in 1993, Marcus Braun began studying German , philosophy and law at the University of Mainz . At the same time, his first narrative and dramatic works were published or performed in magazines and anthologies . Since 2018 he has also appeared as a painter.

Marcus Braun lives today as a freelance writer in Berlin .

Works

Novels

  • Delhi, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1999.
  • Nadiana, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Wedding preparations, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003.
  • Armor, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • The last Buddha , Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2017.

Plays

  • Zett. News from the fall of the West , Dreieck-Verlag, Mainz 1994 (world premiere: Frankfurter Hof, Mainz 1993)
  • Väter Söhne Geister , S. Fischer, 2000 (World premiere: Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld, 2001)
  • Study report. Revue , S. Fischer, 2001 (world premiere: Theater Ulm, 2006)
  • Pictures of men and women , S. Fischer, 2003 (world premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2007)
  • Deutsche Oper , S. Fischer, 2005
  • Andras & Antonia , S. Fischer, 2008
  • Der Berliner Gaettong , S. Fischer 2009 (world premiere: Miryang, Korea 2007; guest performance at the Berliner Volksbühne 2008)

Translations

  • with Gregor Kahlau: Marcin Sendecki : Plots. Poems from ten years. Dreieck-Verlag, Mainz 1997.

Radio plays

Solo exhibitions

MODESTIA, Künstlerhaus Edenkoben 2018 MODESTIA, Window of modern art, Berlin 2019

Appreciation

Christoph Peters justifies his proposal for the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize with the following words: “Since his grandiose debut novel Delhi in 1999, Marcus Braun, born in 1971 on the Moselle, has occupied a special position in German literature: in her obsession with languages, her bold cuts While largely dispensing with the certainties of traditional narrative structures, his novels and plays are committed from the outset to the experimental approaches of classical modernism, as introduced into German post-war literature by Wolfgang Koeppen with his trilogy of failure . Undeterred by fashions and zeitgeist, he revolves around the great themes of humanity: enthusiastic love and erotic obsession, borderline experience and crossing borders, the way into the foreign, death. […] In ever new constellations, Marcus Braun shows what remains of life to us late-born after the erosion of social, political and metaphysical ties. The loss of traditional certainties always resonates, but the time to mourn them is long gone. [...] But despite all the darkness, it is a tremendous pleasure to read Marcus Braun. His language in its laconically precise, yet always poetic power leads us to believe that the only salvation from the absurdity of human conditions lies in the successful sentence. […] Last but not least, with Marcus Braun you can always hear the cosmic laughter in the background. With his sense of humor, he lets us safely balance over the abyss, although there may no longer be any rope taut. "

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Braun receives the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize for Literature | Book market. May 11, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ 2015 working and research grants awarded to authors and curators in literature. January 4, 2017, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Marcus Braun receives the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize for Literature. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bullay on the Moselle