Marcus Hammerschmitt

Marcus Hammerschmitt (2020)

Marcus Hammerschmitt (* 1967 in Saarbrücken ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Marcus Hammerschmitt studied philosophy and literature at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He completed his studies with a thesis on the work Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno .

He has been working as a freelance writer since 1994. In addition to his science fiction - novels and (multimedia) poems he has published at irregular intervals essays and documentation in the Internet -Magazinen Telepolis and Future Zone and in the weekly Jungle World . Polyplay was also published as a radio play in a production by WDR in 2008 , the novels Der Zensor und Grasland also exist as an audio book .

Awards

• 1996: German Science Fiction Award , best short story for Die Sonde (included in Der Glasmensch)
• 1997: Squidward Troll Prize
• 1998: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis , best short story for Wüstenlack
• 1999: Würth Literature Prize
• 2000: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, best short story for troubadours
• 2004: Scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
• 2007: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, best short story for Canea Null in plasma symphony and other visions ( Visionen 2006)
• 2007: German Science Fiction Award, best short story for Canea Null

Works

Short stories

• The Glass Man and other science fiction stories. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-518-38973-4 .
• Night flight. Stories, Shayol Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943279-02-3 .
• The mirror maker. GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, 2013.
• Active washing substances. Short prose, Edition Monhardt, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817789-0-8 .

Novels

• 1997: wind. The second attempt. Two novels. Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-38973-4 .
• 1998: Target. Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-39347-2 .
• 2000: the opal. Argument Verlag, ISBN 3-88619-960-6 .
• 2001: The Censor. Argument Verlag, ISBN 3-88619-970-3 . As an audio book Radioropa 2008: ISBN 978-3-86667-711-1 .
• 2002: Polyplay. Argument Verlag, ISBN 3-88619-974-6 .
• 2013: Pension Barbara. Verlag Das Beben, ISBN 978-3-944855-01-1 .
• 2014: H-Null - A fairy tale of Germany. Verlag Das Beben, ISBN 978-3-944855-08-0 .
• 2020: Devil's Island. Edition JJ Heckenhauer, ISBN 978-3-9821851-2-5 .

Poetry

• The night porter's letter. Poems, Edition Monhardt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-9817789-6-0 .

Youth books

• 2006: The Hercules Project. Sauerländer-Verlag, ISBN 3-7941-7043-1 .
• 2007: The Prince of Scorpions. Sauerländer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7941-7046-3 .
• 2010: Yardang. Sauerländer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7941-8082-0 .
• 2011: Azureus & Pygmalion. Sauerländer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7941-8094-3 .
• 2012: grasslands. Apple iBookstore, ISBN 978-3-00-038044-0 .
• 2014: grasslands. Audiobook, Audible.

Non-fiction

• 1999: Instant Nirvana. The business of finding meaning. Structure Verlag, ISBN 3-351-02793-1 ; Revised new edition Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2005, ISBN 3-86569-005-X .
• 2002: The winged wheel. About the destruction of the railroad. Oktober Verlag, Münster, ISBN 3-935792-23-9 , revised new edition with a current foreword Oktober Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-941895-07-2 .

Short stories and short stories (selection)

• 1996: Hundherz In: "Partner for life - the best international science fiction stories", ed. by Wolfgang Jeschke , Heyne Verlag, Munich. ISBN 3-453-08573-6
• 1998: Desert varnish. In: "The past of the future", ed. by Wolfgang Jeschke, Heyne Verlag, Munich. ISBN 3-453-13337-4 .
• 1999: The funeral In: "Pistole & Dignity", ed. by Andrzej Szczypiorski , Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen. ISBN 3-88769-143-1 .
• 2000: The helpers. In: "The year of the mouse", ed. by Wolfgang Jeschke, Heyne Verlag, Munich. ISBN 3-453-15651-X .
• 2003: At the headquarters. In: ndl Heft 3, Berlin.
• 2004: Vaucanson's duck. In: "One Trillion Euro", ed. by Andreas Eschbach , Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach. ISBN 3-404-24326-9 .
• 2006: Canea Null. In: "Plasma symphony and other visions", ed. by Helmuth W. Mommers , Shayol Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-926126-66-5 .
• 2007: the locomotive. In: "The Moloch and Other Visions", ed. by Helmuth W. Mommers, Shayol Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-926126-74-0 .
• 2012: Above the altar. In: Nova . 20, edited by Olaf G. Hilscher and Michael K. Iwoleit , Nova Verlag, Bad Zwesten 2012, ISSN  1864-2829 .
• 2012: In the sick parliament. In: Nova. 21, edited by Olaf G. Hilscher and Michael K. Iwoleit, Nova Verlag, Bad Zwesten 2012, ISSN  1864-2829
• 2015: In Vienna there is music - an interrogation. in Nova. 23, edited by Olaf G. Hilscher and Michael K. Iwoleit, Amrûn Verlag, Traunstein 2015. ISSN  1864-2829 , ISBN 978-3-95869-031-8

literature

• Rafał Damian Daschka: Critical Dreams. Notes on the volume of stories "Der Glasmensch" by Marcus Hammerschmitt. In: blue screen. Visions, dreams, nightmares and reflections of the fantastic and utopian, ed. Walter Delabar and Frauke Schlieckau, Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-89528-769-5 , pp. 247-254
• Karin Harrasser: Variations on the Popular and Science Fiction. The author Marcus Hammerschmitt, analyzed in terms of cultural sociology. In: Quarber Mercury . 91/92, Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Passau 2000, ISBN 978-3-932621-32-1 , pp. 53-68.
• Franz Rottensteiner: Night flight. In: Quarber Mercury. Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Volume 114, 2013, ISBN 978-3-934273-93-1 , pp. 290-293.
• Jakob Schmidt: An acid that etches away all the rubbish . In: Alien Contact . No. 51 , February 19, 2003 ( epilog.de ( memento from April 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - interview with Marcus Hammerschmitt).
• Alexander Seibold: Playing useful, that's our job. A conversation with Marcus Hammerschmitt. In: Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): The Science Fiction Year 2003. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-87049-2 , pp. 467-490.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcus Hammerschmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcus Hammerschmitt in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Marcus Hammerschmitt at Open Library
• Almost the usual Marcus Hammerschmitt's homepage
• Because it's all in the details of Marcus Hammerschmitt's Patreon page
• Interview with Marcus Hammerschmitt on sf-fan.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Archive". In: "Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture". Retrieved March 20, 2017 .