Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966 ) is an American writer.
life and work
Mark Z. Danielewski is the son of the Polish film director Tad Danielewski and his wife, Priscilla Machold. His sister is the American singer and singer-songwriter Ann Danielewski , known under the stage name "Poe".
Danielewski studied English literature at Yale University and then took part in a graduate program at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He worked in publishing and was involved in the production of the documentary Derrida .
His debut novel House of Leaves , published in 2000, quickly became a bestseller in the USA , especially since the book had already had a fan base since it was first published as an Internet text. Half a year after House of Leaves , Danielewski published The Whalestoe Letters , an accompanying book.
In 2009 Westdeutsche Rundfunk produced Das Haus as a radio play . On December 10, 2009, three narrative levels of a story were broadcast simultaneously on the WDR radio waves 1Live, WDR 3 and WDR 5, whereby the listener could switch between the radio frequencies during the broadcast and thus create and listen to the sequence of the interwoven narrative levels himself could experience. After the SFB production Störfunk by Olf Dziadek and Angelika Maiworm, which ran parallel on the waves of the Sender Freies Berlin in 1990 , this was another attempt at a "three-dimensional" radio play.
In Audio Verlag (DAV), the WDR production has been released on a DVD that allows the listener to hear the three narrative levels by changing the channels in an infinite number of combinations. Radio play with Roberto Ciulli, Anna Thalbach, Wolfram Koch, Christian Redl a. a. The radio play won the German Audio Book Prize 2011 in the category "The special audio book / Best adaptation".
His second book, Only Revolutions , was published in 2006 and was nominated as a contender for the 2006 National Book Award. Danielewski's literary work is characterized by an experimental use of text forms. He uses narrative levels that are intricately interwoven, which he combines with typographical variations and different page layouts.
Works
- 2000: House of Leaves
- 2000: The Whalestoe Letters , companion book to House of Leaves (largely integrated into the German translation)
- 2007: Das Haus - House of Leaves , transl. Christa Schuenke, Klett-Cotta Verlag
- 2005: The Fifty Year Sword
- 2013: Translated by Christa Schuenke : The Fifty Year Sword . Tropen, Stuttgart 2013 ISBN 978-3-608-50126-1
- 2006: Only Revolutions
- German: Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012
- 2015: The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
- 2015: The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest
Audio books
- The House. House of Leaves , read by Tom Schilling , Wolfram Koch a . a., Der Audio Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-89813-995-3 (radio play, 159 min)
Web links
- Literature by and about Mark Z. Danielewski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mark Z. Danielewski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview Mark Z. Danielewski on The Ledge (English)
notes
- ↑ Between home and horror . Regina Pollmann on the translation of the novel. ReLÜ , reviews online, 6, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Danielewski, Mark Z. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1966 |