Martin A. Völker

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Martin André Völker (* 1972 in Berlin ) is a German author , cultural scientist and aesthetician .

Life

After graduating from the Gabriele-von-Bülow-Oberschule in Berlin-Tegel, Martin A. Völker studied cultural studies with a focus on aesthetics , cultural work / cultural policy and European ethnology at the Berlin Humboldt University . In 2004 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of aesthetic thinking between the Enlightenment and Romanticism . After many years of teaching as an assistant at the seminar for aesthetics at the Humboldt University, he now works as a freelance science advisor, as a lecturer and assistant to the university management at the Lessing University of Berlin . In 2016/17 he was visiting professor for German studies at the chair for comparative literature at the University of Szczecin . Völker is a publicist and editor as well as the author of poetry and prose texts.

Völker is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the International PEN Club and the European authors' association Die Kogge .

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As a literary archaeologist, essayist and editor, Völker works on the literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries beyond the canon. To do this, he researches literary sediments and networks in the form of family structures and regional traditions. In his PhD thesis, published in book form in 2006, “Space fantasies, narrative wholeness and identity. A Reconstruction of the Aesthetic from the Work and Activity of the Barons von Dalberg “is dedicated to the brothers Karl Theodor von Dalberg (Carl von Dalberg), Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg and Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg and shows the concrete interaction of politics with a systemic research approach , Science, philosophy, theater and music. The search for diverse overlaps of literary currents and the demonstration of their social and mentality-historical depth allows Völker to discover authors who e.g. Some were closely connected with the recognized personalities of their time, but have been forgotten or ignored by research, which applies to many women who write. E.g. on the Novalis friend Louise Brachmann, who was rediscovered and re-edited by him . With Peter Baum and his novellas "Im alten Schloß" (1908/2015) he not only rediscovered Else Lasker-Schüler and Peter Hille's best friend , but also a missing link between Impressionism and Expressionism in German literature. He conducts regional literary and cultural research with his editions of works and articles on Gutti Alsen (Königsberg / East Prussia), Joachim Böldicke (Berlin), Marco Brociner (Romania and Austria), Max Dreyer (Rügen / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Axel Lübbe (East Prussia) ), Clara Nast ( Prussian-Lithuania ), Woldemar Nürnberger ( Neumark ), Wilhelm Raabe (Berlin), Arthur Silbergleit ( Gleiwitz / Upper Silesia) and to Georg Wilhelm Wegner (Brandenburg), who wrote under the pseudonym Tharsander . His volumes “In den Finsternissen” (2012) and “Krähendämmerung” (2014) on the work of Katarina Botsky ( Königsberg ) received particular attention . Völker is often the first biographer and interpreter of such authors. In 2014, in the 21st volume of the "Cairo German Studies", he coined the phrase "tissue of literary matters" for the personal relationships he examined, for the media dissemination and political significance of cultural production. In Völkers representation, it is ultimately a poetic, reconstructive one, which shows the story with its forerunners, parallel contexts, unconscious intentions and repressed motivations. This also leads to a re-evaluation and reorientation of well-known authors who are enriched with new contexts and show additional personality aspects. In Völkers volumes on Theodor Fontane , the poet appears less museum-like and conservative, but more dynamic and with the claim to contemporary contemporary. In the Fontane year 2019 the volumes appeared: “Von der Schöne Rosamunde and other poems” and “Death on the Schipka Pass . Literary Sediments ”. In his essay “Embarkation to Crete”, which closes the poetry book “The Palace of Knossos” (2015) by Mauro Ponzi , he promotes research and recognition of lively and dramatic historicity as part of contemporary life . Völker developed the "Europa 2go" series for the Berlin-based Anthea Verlag, the individual volumes of which he publishes with afterwords. The series deals with the neglected and lost literary cultural heritage of Europe and is based on the country focus of the book fairs in Leipzig and Frankfurt. The series is recognized as an official contribution to the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 declared by the European Commission. In 2018, volumes on Mihai Eminescu , Carmen Sylva and Romania ( Adelheid Bandau ) were published. In 2019, Völker's volumes on Else Feldmann , Max Hayek , Paul Leppin and Friedrich Schlögl (author) were published . The Schlögl texts see themselves as an ethnological and linguistic preoccupation with the city of Vienna .

In his book on the novelist and essayist Gerhard von Amyntor, “A modern evening party, Völkers method represents a genuinely cultural and socially critical analysis instrument . Chat about anti-Semitism ”(2016). The hostility to Jews around 1900 is treated in relation to the development of German conservatism .

The crisis of faith and meaning at the beginning of modernity discussed by Völker in his academic work is also echoed in his poetry and short prose. In the title piece of his collection "Trost Hawaii", published in 2015 in the renowned Mitlesebuch series by Aphaia Verlag, the Lord's Prayer is deconstructed and linguistically alienated to such an extent that it becomes a gloomy, culturally critical invocation of the human driving force. In his prose works he satirically tackles time problems, for example in the story “For tea at Himmlers”, in which the friends Heinrich Himmler and Hanns Johst meet and Himmler turns out to be a master chef and confectioner. This Nazi grotesque, which turns the much discussed “banality of evil” into the comic and absurd, was created, as Völker writes in the epilogue “Not the end” to his collection, in November 2011 as a reaction to the first reports on the activities of the terror group NSU. In an essay for the writer Ulrich Grasnick , Völker confronts the ideological abuse of language, language as an instrument of domination , with the "happiness of poetic contact".

Questions of the time also take up the texts that Völker has been writing in the satirical column “Far from the Lord with Jesus Hasemann” for the Brandenburg monthly newspaper Der Uhu since March 2015. A part in which Hasemann describes the city of Dresden under the influence of Pegida appeared in the October issue of the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel in 2016 . Martin A. Völker is featured in the literary magazine Poesiealbum neu (issue 01/2017, 02/2017, 01/2018, 01/2019) with poetic texts . His "fairy tale of the devil betrayed three times" was a contribution to the "Gifhorn Fairy Tale Days 2018" and was published there. Völkers poem "Notre-Dame", published in the May issue of the literary magazine eXperimenta (p. 77), is socially critical of the fire of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on April 15 and 16, 2019 .

Edition

  • Otto Riedel: The picture carver from Zwickau. Novel about the late Gothic artist Peter Breuer [1944], edited, commented and provided with an afterword by Tobias J. Knoblich and Martin A. Völker, Chemnitz: Chemnitzer Verlag, 2002. Therein: Foreword. P. 7 f .; Epilogue. Pp. 230-246. (in cooperation with Tobias J. Knoblich)
  • Georg Wilhelm Wegner: The confused and reassured realm of the dead. A Lucianische Satyr, without preface [1746], with explanations and materials ed. by Martin A. Völker [= series of publications: Fundstücke, vol. 8], Hanover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2004. In it: The monster of war: The enlightener Georg Wilhelm Wegner and the cultural misery of his time. Pp. 103-119.
  • Georg Wilhelm Wegner: Philosophical treatise of ghosts [1747], with explanations and materials ed. by Martin A. Völker [= series of publications: Fundstücke, Vol. 11], Hanover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2006. In it: About ghosts and their unauthorized stay in an enlightened world. Pp. 107-140.
  • "The wings of thought are bound" - Louise Brachmann (1777–1822) [anthology], compiled and edited with an introduction and notes. by Martin A. Völker [as a supplement to An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers, ed. by Brian Keith-Smith], Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Therein: Introduction. S. XI-XXXV.
  • Joachim Böldicke: Trying to find the true intention of Nic. Machiavels to discover [1750], with explanations and materials ed. by Martin A. Völker, illustrations by Franz Peters [= series of publications: Fundstücke, vol. 18], Hanover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2008. Therein: Hermeneutik und Macht. Joachim Böldicke and the function of educational erudition. Pp. 105-132.
  • Carl von Dalberg: Reflections on the Universe [1777], with explanations and materials, ed. by Hans-Bernd Spies and Martin A. Völker, illustrations by Franz Peters [= series of publications: Fundstücke, Vol. 25], Hannover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011. In it: Carl von Dalberg (1744–1817): Paths of life and thought processes. Pp. 157-191 (pp. 174 ff.).
  • Axel Lübbe: Hugo of Brandenburg. Novelle [1927], with an afterword ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: hochroth Verlag, 2012. In it: people, stormed by dreams and led by demons - epilogue. Pp. 32-40.
  • Katarina Botsky: In the darkness. Novellas [1912–1935], selected and edited with an afterword. by Martin A. Völker, Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2012. In it: epilogue: fear, horror, glimmer of corpses - writing in memory of the dead God. Pp. 90-105.
  • Gutti Alsen: Solitude hiking. Novellas [1922/1931], ed. by Martin A. Völker, Leipzig: hochroth Verlag, 2013. In it: poetry, born of need and death - an afterword. Pp. 23-25.
  • Max Dreyer: Hungry. Sketch [1894], (including: from the early days of German naturalism. Jugenderinnerungen by Max Dreyer [1946]), ed. by Martin A. Völker, illustrations by Franz Peters, Potsdam: Udo Degener Verlag, 2013. In it: Afterword: The runaway naturalist: Max Dreyer (1862–1946). Pp. 38-47.
  • Katarina Botsky: Dawn of the Crow. Novellas [1913–1936], selected and edited with an afterword. by Martin A. Völker, foreword by Hartmut Geerken, Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2014. In it: Afterword: Seeing the Erlkönig - Katarina Botsky and her aestheticization of fear. Pp. 126-150.
  • Peter Baum: In the old castle. Novellen [1908], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2015. In it: Atoms, Mehlstaub, Wolkenwölfe: Modernity and Crisis by Peter Baum (1869–1916). Pp. 79-110.
  • Gerhard von Amyntor [di Dagobert von Gerhardt]: A modern evening party. Chat about anti-Semitism [1881], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2016. In it: Live right in wrong: About the authorship of Gerhard von Amyntor (1831–1910), pp. 59–98.
  • Clara Nast: So far away from you. Lithuanian border experiences [1901/03], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2017. Therein: Literature of the Frontier and Frontier of Literature - About the East Prussian writer Clara Nast (1866–1925), pp. 163–190.
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Emilia Galotti. A tragedy in five acts [1772], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, illustrations by Franz Peters [= edition Lessinghaus, ed. by Martin A. Völker, vol. 1], Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2017. In it: Aesthetics of shock. Pp. 123-134.
  • Theodor Fontane: From the beautiful Rosamunde and other poems [= edition # tf19], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2019.
  • Theodor Fontane: Death at the Schipka Pass. Literary Sediments, foreword by Kurt Tucholsky [= edition # tf19], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2019.
  • Das Seuchenbüchlin - poetry and prose of the state of emergency, various authors, with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2020.

monograph

  • Space fantasies, narrative wholeness and identity. A reconstruction of the aesthetic from the work and activities of the barons von Dalberg, [= series of publications: Enlightenment and Modernity, ed. by Günther Lottes and Brunhilde Wehinger (European Enlightenment Research Center, Potsdam), Vol. 5], Hanover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2006 [= dissertation].

Literary works

  • Prose articles for LIBUS. Magazine for literature and contemporary art, Berlin. Issues: 3/1999, 4/1999, 4/2002.
  • Fundsache [short story], in: Tell me something. The most beautiful stories from the competition in the Tagesspiegel 2003, with a foreword by Giovanni di Lorenzo ed. by Tagesspiegel and the Katrin Rohnstock media office, Berlin: Katrin Rohnstock media office, 2003. pp. 96–99.
  • There will be a [short story], in: Märchenhaus. Stories for the chimney evening, Christmas anthology of the dream hours publishing house, special edition of the winners of the writing competition 2011, ed. by Britta Wisniewski and Andrea el Gato, Essen: Traumstunden Verlag, 2011. pp. 77–84.
  • Jubeltag or Das Ende der La Deutsche Rita [short story], in: Matrix. Journal of Literature and Art . Edited by Traian Pop , 32nd edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2013, pp. 111–114.
  • advent [poem], in: Arrived. Paths, detours, astray. Anthology of the Free German Association of Authors Berlin, Borsdorf: edition winterwork, 2013. P. 157 f.
  • Histo-Magier [prose], in: Ronald R. Klein; Stefan van Zwoll (ed.): Schimmel over Berlin. Literature, Talks, Visual Arts, Meine: Verlag Andreas Reiffer, 2014. p. 129.
  • The roof of the world [part 1; Prose], in: eXperimenta. Online and radio magazine for literature and art, ed. Mario Andreotti and Rüdiger Heins, edition: January 2015, Bingen, Bad Kreuznach: INKAS. Institute for creative writing in the network for alternative media and cultural work, p. 31–34.
  • The roof of the world [part 2; Prose], in: eXperimenta. Online and radio magazine for literature and art, ed. Mario Andreotti and Rüdiger Heins, edition: February 2015, Bingen, Bad Kreuznach: INKAS. Institute for creative writing in the network for alternative media and cultural work eV pp. 18–21.
  • Consolation Hawaii. Poetry and clarity. A selection from the work of Martin A. Völker [poetry and prose], with woodcuts by Horst W. König, [= Mitlesebuch, Nr. 130], Berlin: Aphaia Verlag, 2015.

Trivia

Völker curates and moderates events in the Lessinghaus in the Nikolaiviertel for Berlin-based Anthea Verlag and the Anthea Publishing Group . He is also the editor of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's works in a book series designed for the Lessinghaus, the "edition Lessinghaus". Emilia Galotti was published in 2017, Minna von Barnhelm in 2018 . Völker also supports u. a. the authors Iris Galey and Carmen-Francesca Banciu ("Farewell, your comrades and lovers!", 2018) as editor. Together with York Freitag , Michael Manzek and others, Völker is a member of the jury of the Ulrich Grasnick Poetry Prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Lang: Rediscovered literature. A Berlin publisher goes on the trail of forgotten poets , in: Marginalien. Journal for Book Art and Bibliophilia, ed. from the Pirckheimer Society, No. 212 (4, 2013), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Pp. 54-57.
  2. ↑ Marco Brociner: The love affairs of Mr. Bobrica. Romanian Stories [1890-1893], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2018. In it: Opportunity makes thieves of morality - The Romanian writer Marco Brociner and the honorable society. Pp. 241-278.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Raabe: The Chronicle of the Sperlingsgasse. Roman [1857], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker [= edition Berliner Leben], Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2018. In it: Wilhelm Raabe's “pathological oddity”. Pp. 196-207.
  4. ↑ Arthur Silbergleit. Selection by Martin A. Völker, in: Poesiealbum, Heft 327, series focus "Ostracized poets - burned books", with graphics by Franz Peters, Wilhelmshorst: Märkischer Verlag, (November) 2016.
  5. ^ Renate Reschke : More death always goes [About MA Völkers Botsky book: In den Finsternissen (2012)], in: Dies. (Ed.): Really. Reality. Realities. Nietzsche on "true" and "apparent" worlds [= Nietzsche research. Yearbook of the Nietzsche Society, vol. 20], o. O .: Akademie Verlag, 2013. pp. 412–415.
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freitag.de
  7. ↑ KGS. Yearbook for Linguistics, Literature and Translation Studies, Vol. 21, Cairo 2014, pp. 515–521.
  8. ↑ M. Völker: Embarkation to Crete - An epilogue , in: Mauro Ponzi: The palace of Knossos . Poems, with five ink drawings by Christa von Braun , from the Italian by Mauro Ponzi and Michael Speier , Berlin: Aphaia Verlag, 2015. pp. 64–68.
  9. ↑ https://sharingheritage.de/projekte/buchreihe-europa-2go/
  10. ↑ Else Feldmann: Bearbiss and Mildness [1928], ed. by Martin A. Völker, Weißensee Verlag 2019. ISBN 3899982673
  11. ↑ Max Hayek: Let's travel to Utopia. Reflections, Parables, Poems [1930], ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2019.
  12. ^ Paul Leppin: Prague. [Spring around 1900. Prague Stories (1936)], ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2019.
  13. ↑ Vienna [Friedrich Schlögl: Wiener Arten und Unarten (1883)], selected and ed. by Martin A. Völker (2019) ./
  14. ↑ M. Völker: Live correctly in the wrong: About the authorship of Gerhard von Amyntor (1831-1910) , in: Gerhard von Amyntor [di Dagobert von Gerhardt]: A modern evening company. Chat about anti-Semitism [1881], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2016, pp. 59–98.
  15. ↑ On the happiness of poetic touch, in: Ulrich Grasnick: In search of your face. Poems about Johannes Bobrowski, Berlin: Quintus-Verlag, 2018. pp. 109–118./
  16. ↑ When Jesus Hasemann visited Dresden ... , in: Eulenspiegel. The satirical magazine, ed. by Hartmut Berlin and Jürgen Nowak, editor: Mathias Wedel, 62./70. Vol. 10, Berlin: Eulenspiegel GmbH, 2016, p. 40.
  17. ↑ The fairy tale of the devil betrayed three times, in: Gifhorner Märchentage 2018. Gifhorn's first fairy tale collection, Gifhorn: Ehrlich Verlag, 2018. pp. 39–42. https://www.ehrlich-verlag.de/produkt/gifhorner-maerchentage-2018/
  18. ↑ http://www.experimenta.de/pdf/2019/experimenta-05_19_Mai_DS.pdf
  19. ^ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Emilia Galotti. A tragedy in five acts [1772], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, illustrations by Franz Peters [= edition Lessinghaus, ed. by Martin A. Völker, vol. 1], Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2017. In it: Aesthetics of shock. Pp. 123-134./
  20. ↑ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Minna von Barnhelm or the luck of the soldiers. A comedy in five acts [1767], with an essay, ed. by Martin A. Völker, illustrations by Franz Peters [= edition Lessinghaus, ed. by Martin A. Völker, Vol. 2], Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2018. In it: The subversive classic. Pp. 208–221./
  21. ↑ https://vs.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten/++co++4eab2f70-10df-11e8-9433-525400f67940/
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SURNAME Völker, Martin A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Völker, Martin André (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, cultural scientist and aesthetician
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin