Martin Becker (writer)

Martin Becker, 2007

Martin Becker at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017

Martin Becker (born November 2, 1982 in Attendorn ) is a German writer , journalist and radio play author .

Life

Becker grew up in Plettenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia . He first studied German and philosophy for two semesters at the Ruhr University in Bochum , before taking up prose and drama at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig in 2003 . In 2005 he moved from Leipzig to Berlin, where he worked as a radio journalist, mainly for WDR . Today Becker lives again in Leipzig and Prague.

In the summer of 2007, Becker took part in the reading competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt at the suggestion of Klaus Nüchtern .

In August 2007, Luchterhand Literaturverlag published his volume of short stories A beautiful life ; At the same time, two stories taken from the volume, the title story A beautiful life and society , spoken by the actors Ueli Jäggi and Raphael Clamer , were published as audio pieces on CD by the Zurich audio book publisher sprechtheater . The daily newspaper Die Welt wrote about A Beautiful Life : “This literature is too much to get over with. And it would be given away. "

Together with the Czech writer Jaroslav Rudiš , Becker wrote the radio play Lost in Praha , which was broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk in April 2008 , and the opera Exit 89 , which premiered in October 2008 in the Divadlo Archa theater in Prague . In November 2008 the WDR broadcast Becker's second radio play entitled Before everything is gone .

Becker is also working on artistic features for public broadcasters and has portrayed the composer Philip Glass, the filmmaker Béla Tarr and the writer Hubert Selby junior, among others.

From 2011 to 2012 Martin Becker was an artistic assistant at the professorship for Experimental Radio at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, which is unique in Europe .

In 2014, together with theater director and musician Schorsch Kamerun, the radio play "Fathers Have Seven Lives" was created, which Cameroon and Becker also presented at a live performance.

Becker is currently working as a critic and journalist for Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, among others.

Works

novel

• The rest of the night (Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2014)
• Marching music (Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2017)

Narrative volume

• A beautiful life (Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2007)

Non-fiction

• Instructions for use for the Czech Republic and Prague (Piper Verlag 2016)

As editor

• The last metro. Young literature from the Czech Republic (together with Martina Lisa) (Voland & Quist 2017)

Radio plays / opera

• Lost in Praha (together with Jaroslav Rudiš) (first broadcast: spring 2008 on WDR3 and 1Live)
• Exit 89 (together with Jaroslav Rudiš) (world premiere: autumn 2008)
• Before everything is gone (first broadcast: autumn 2008 on WDR3)
• Plattenbaucowboys (together with Jaroslav Rudiš) (first broadcast: spring 2010 on WDR3 and 1Live)
• Fathers have seven lives (together with Schorsch Cameroon) (first broadcast: spring 2014 on WDR3 and 1Live)
• FUCK YOU, MON AMOUR. A declaration of love. (Original broadcast: Winter 2017 on WDR3 and 1Live)

Prizes and awards

• 2002 Federal Prize Winner at the meeting of young authors at the Berlin Festival
• 2005 scholarship from the authors' workshop prose at the literary colloquium Berlin
• 2007 invitation to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt
• 2007 GWK Prize for Literature
• 2008 literary scholarship of the Märkische Kulturkonferenz ( Märkisches Scholarship for literature )
• 2008 Art Prize for Literature from the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH (together with Julia Schoch)

• 2017 German-Czech Journalism Prize (together with Tabea Soergel)

supporting documents

1. ↑ PERSON - The homepage of Martin Becker. Author and journalist. Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 
2. ^ Book review "Die Welt" from December 1, 2007
3. ^ Website of the "Experimental Radio" at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 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. 
4. ^ Martin Becker (author) - Luchterhand literature publisher. Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 
5. ^ The last metro - Voland & Quist. Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Martin Becker: Radio play "Fuck You, Mon Amour" by Martin Becker . November 28, 2016 ( wdr.de [accessed July 20, 2017]).
7. ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography from LAND BRANDENBURG LOTTO GmbH. Retrieved December 14, 2015 . 
8. ↑ January 29, 2017, SWR2: German-Czech journalist award for SWR2 Feature | Communication | Company . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on July 20, 2017]).

Web links

• Author website
• "A beautiful life" in Luchterhand literature publisher
• Short biography and information on the work of Martin Becker (writer) at Literaturport
• Martin Becker's profile on the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize website