Martin Jankowski

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Martin E. Jankowski (* 1965 in Greifswald ) is a German writer .

Life

He grew up in Gotha and was part of the opposition scene around the Nikolaikirche and the Leipzig song scene as a poet and singer in the 1980s . From 1982 until the end of the GDR he was confronted by the Stasi with disintegration measures during two operations . Jankowski was therefore unable to study, was banned from performing, publishing and traveling and lived in a " bugged " apartment.

From 1990 to 1995 he lived in Fürstenwalde / Spree , where he co-founded the Kulturfabrik am Dom. Jankowski has lived as a writer in Berlin since 1995. In addition to songs, poems, stories and essays, he has published stage texts, literary criticism and a novel. From 2000 he worked for various museums and international art projects as an author and curator, including the Berggruen Collection and the Dahlem Ethnological Museum . In 2003 he was a guest lecturer for New German Literature at Universitas Indonesia . From 2001 to 2004 he worked for the international literature festival berlin . Until 2010 he was in charge of the specials program division . In 2003 and 2004 he was chairman of the German-Indonesian Cultural Institute in Berlin. Since 2004 he has hosted the literature salon on Kollwitzplatz . Since 2005 he has headed the Berlin Literary Action . In 2006 he received the Alfred Döblin Scholarship and undertook reading tours through Indonesia on behalf of the IndonesiaTera Foundation and the German Embassy (also in 2008 and 2010 at the invitation of the Goethe Institute ). From 2007 to 2010 he hosted the literature salon Mitte . Since 2012 he has organized the Berlin Literature Salon Karlshorst . Jankowski works occasionally as a theater director and regularly as an editor. In 2011 he headed the Jakarta Berlin Arts Festival and in 2016 the literary festival Stadtschulen in Berlin. In 2015 and 2016 he was a guest lecturer for the latest German literature, theater and history at Portland State University (Oregon / USA). Since 2017 he has headed the international literature series Parataxe and is editor of the multilingual online literary magazine stadtsprach.de, and in 2018 he also heads the bilingual literature festival Berlin New York = URBAN DICTIONARY.

Jankowski has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 1995 and has two daughters, including the actress Rahel Johanna Jankowski .

Works

  • Rabet or The Disappearance of a Cardinal Direction. Novel. via verbis, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-933902-03-7 .
  • Soap bubble machine - Berlin scenes. Narratives and short stories. Schwartzkopff Buchwerke, Hamburg-Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937738-32-0 .
  • Indonesian second book. Poems, bilingual (Indonesian-German), translated by Katrin Bandel, Indonesian adaptations by Dorothea Rosa Herliany , accompanying word by Goenawan Mohamad. Indonesiatera, Magelang (Java) 2006, ISBN 92-97750-01-X .
  • Mice. Novella. In: Schönerlesen No. 53.SuKuLTuR Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937737-60-X .
  • The day that changed Germany - October 9, 1989. Essay. In: Series of publications by the Saxon State Commissioner for the Stasi documents. No. 7, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02506-0 .
  • U (DYS) TOPIA - the emergence of myths, fairy tales and legends in the present , German, English, Indonesian. Edited and with essays by Martin Jankowski, Regiospectra Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940132-14-7 .
  • Jakarta Berlin , German and English. Edited and with essays and photos by Martin Jankowski, Regiospectra Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940132-28-4 .
  • book of seconds - poems & chants . Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86660-144-4 .
  • Reading Indonesia - Notes on Literature and Society . Essays and Talks, Regiospectra Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940132-66-6 .
  • cosmonaut waltz - poems . Limited edition artist's book with graphics by Wienke Treblin, MLB No. 108, aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2015.
  • sasakananas INDONESIA MATERIAL - poems & notes . Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86660-197-0 .
  • Night bus to Mitte - Berlin poems of today . Edited and with texts by Martin Jankowski, Verlag für Berlin und Brandenburg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-55-8 .
  • PARATAXE - the Berlin city-language magazine. KLAK Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-948156-06-0 .

Awards

  • open mike 1993
  • Authors' grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation in 1996
  • Working grant from the Berlin Senate in 1997
  • Annual prize for literary studies and intellectual history of the DVLG 1998
  • Alfred Döblin scholarship from the German Academy of the Arts 2006
  • Working grant from the Berlin Senate in 2007
  • Cultural exchange scholarship from the Berlin Senate in 2008
  • Literature Prize of the Berlin V.Baum Foundation (for lyrical life's work) 2013

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. KG Saur Verlag, Berlin 2006/2007.
  • Frank Thomas Grub: 'Wende' and 'Unity' as reflected in German-language literature. (5.3.7. Ff), Berlin / New York, de Gruyter, 2003.
  • Janet L. Grant: Post-Prenzlauer Berg. In: Exberliner. No. 53. Berlin 2007.
  • Thomas Rudolph , Oliver Kloss , Rainer Müller , Christoph Wonneberger (ed. On behalf of the IFM-Archivs eV ): Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Araki, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941848-17-7 , ( preface as reading sample), pp. 90, 112, 114 , 116, 127 and 156.
  • Kirsten Gerland: Political Youth in Change from 1988/89 , pp. 189 ff, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://gotha.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/leben/detail/-/specific/Gegen-Zersetzungmassätze-Vor-25-Jahren-wurde-die-Stasi-in-Gotha-besetzt-319822786
  2. ↑ city-language magazine. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ »Berlin New York = URBAN DICTIONARY :: Berlin literary action. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturport.de

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personal data
SURNAME Jankowski, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jankowski, Martin E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald