Martin Brinkmann

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Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann (* 1976 in Bremerhaven ) is a German author , critic and publisher .

biography

Brinkmann attended the Lower Saxony boarding school in Bad Bederkesa . After graduating from high school, he first studied German, philosophy and linguistics at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1996 to 1997 , then from 1997 to 2008 at the University of Bremen . From 2005 to 2008 he received a doctoral scholarship from the University of Bremen. From 2005 to 2011 he was a lecturer at the University of Bremen. In 2010 he received his doctorate with a thesis on music and melancholy in the work Heimito von Doderer at Wolfgang Emmerich Dr. phil.

In 1993 Brinkmann founded the Bunte Raben Verlag together with Fabian Reimann in Meckelstedt , which has since published the literary magazine Krachkultur . Numerous young authors published their first texts in noise culture , such as Henning Ahrens , Anja Utler and Saša Stanišić . Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance literary critic and cultural journalist. He has reviews, portraits and interviews etc. a. for Financial Times Deutschland , Zeit Online and Junge Welt . He lives in Bremen and Munich. Brinkmann has also worked as an editor for the Sanssouci Verlag since 2010 .

Brinkmann published his first prose texts in the anthology Trash-Piloten published by Heiner Link . Texts for the 1990s (1997). In a review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the writer Uwe Timm particularly highlighted Brinkmann's contribution. The publication of his novel Today all walks (2001) divided the criticism. While the Neue Zürcher Zeitung was annoyed that Christian Krachts fiber land had apparently "traced a trail" for the author, "which he believed he had to follow", praised the Rheinische Merkur, saying that the author was "both informative and amusing Protocol of an identity search between sympathetic self-irony and manic melancholy ”succeeded. Together with Werner Loch-Lawrence , Brinkmann next edited the anthology 20 under 30. Young German Authors (2002). The same criticism that shortly afterwards celebrated the individual titles of the authors represented in 20 under 30 (especially the books by Juli Zeh , Silke Scheuermann , Ricarda Junge , Saša Stanišić , Xaver Bayer , Julia Schoch , Franziska Gerstenberg ) stood in this pack “unhatched “Mostly skeptical of eggs. Most recently, Brinkmann published mainly stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies.

Works

Books

  • Music and melancholy in Heimito von Doderer's work. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2012.
  • Today everyone is going for a walk. Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, Munich 2001.
  • Willow wounded tragedy. Poems. Bunte Raben Verlag , Lintig-Meckelstedt 1996.

Anthology and magazine articles

  • Desert dreams. Report. In: Lettre International No. 99/2012.
  • The island, the misfortune, Christoph and me. Narrative. In: Am Erker - magazine for literature. No. 62/2011.
  • The cunt tick. Narrative. In: Hamburger Ziegel. No. 11. Yearbook for Literature 2008/2009. Edited by Wolfgang Schömel u. a. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2008.
  • White mice. Narrative. In: Sex isn't really my thing. Edited by Tina Uebel and Friederike Moldenhauer. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Zamioculcas zamiifolia. Narrative. In: Green love, green poison. 13 stories and a poem about the houseplant wilderness. Edited by Hanne Kulessa. Heinrich & Hahn, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • The last beer of the Nosferatu. Narrative. In: Salt - magazine for literature. No. 121/2005.
  • The diary. Narrative. In: Men don't know pain. Stories about jealousy. Edited by Saskia Heintz. Hanser, Munich 2003.

Translations

  • James Sallis : Driving . From the American. In: Krachkultur 15/2013, pp. 37–42.
  • Yanko Tsvetkov : Atlas of Prejudice. From English together u. a. with Christophe Fricker . Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2013.
  • HP Lovecraft : Nietzscheanism and Realism. From the American together with Daniel Dubbe and Wolfgang Schömel . In: Krachkultur. 12/2008, pp. 14-20.
  • Stewart O'Nan : The Lost World of Richard Yates. How the great writer of the Age of Fear disappeared from the book trade. From the English together with Wolfgang Schömel. In: Krachkultur. 10/2004, pp. 25-71.

Editorships

  • 20 under 30. Young German authors. Edited together with Werner Loch-Lawrence. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2002.
  • Noise culture. Edited together with Fabian Reimann. Lintig-Meckelstedt 1993 ff. (Meanwhile 15 volumes).

Editions

  • Heimito von Doderer: Seraphica - Montefal. Two stories from the estate. Edited together with Gerald Sommer. With an afterword by Martin Brinkmann. Beck, Munich 2009.
  • Thomas Kling : The Baader letters. Edited together with Fabian Reimann. In: Krachkultur. 12/2008, pp. 122-126.
  • Heimito von Doderer: Chronique Scandaleuse or René and the fat ladies. Edited together with Gerald Sommer. In: Krachkultur. 11/2007, pp. 94-112.
  • Heimito von Doderer: Studies and Extremas. From the sketchbooks of the years 1923-1939. Edited together with Gerald Sommer . In: Sense and Form. 58, H. 6, 2006, pp. 765-781.

Awards

  • Spreewald Literature Scholarship , Hotel zur Bleiche, Burg (Spreewald) 2011
  • Scholarship from the Austrian Society for Literature (Vienna) 2006
  • PhD scholarship from the University of Bremen 2005–2008
  • Bremen authors grant 2005
  • Scholarship in the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg , Elbe 2004
  • Artist-in-Residence grant, Hotel Laudinella, St. Moritz, summer 2003
  • Working grant from the State of Lower Saxony in 2001

literature

  • Uta Graßhoff: Martin Brinkmann and Fabian Reimann - noise culture. In: Uta Graßhoff: Erstlingsgeschichten. Experiences around the literary debut . Hamburg 2009, pp. 135-137.
  • Thomas Andre: Gold prospector out of passion. Martin Brinkmann and his literary magazine "Krachkultur" - small but nice. In: Welt Kompakt from January 10, 2008.
  • Peter Henning : Standing before life. On the short prose by the young narrator Martin Brinkmann. In: Büchner. No. 12 / December 2000, p. 10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Manuel Gogos: The gold prospectors . In: Der Tagesspiegel from June 5, 2007
  2. ↑ Uwe Timm: Waiting for Pernod. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 6./7. September 1997
  3. ↑ Thomas Kraft: Almost cried . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 26, 2001
  4. ^ Christian Schuldt: Herpes and canned beer . In: Rheinischer Merkur of April 27, 2001
  5. ↑ See Susanne Balthasar: Blown eggs, brightly painted. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of March 20, 2003; see. also Wolfgang Schneider: How young are the boys? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 14, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, critic and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven