Martin Kluger (author, 1948)

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Martin Kluger (born January 9, 1948 in Berlin ; died April 28, 2021 there ) was a German writer and screenwriter .

Life

A Charité building, the setting in the novel Die Gehilfin .

Martin Kluger studied English and linguistics in Oberlin (Ohio) , Tübingen and Berlin , was a lecturer at the TU Berlin and worked as a copywriter and literary translator . He has translated works by Malcolm Lowry , Iris Murdoch , John Fowles and Donald Barthelme into German, among others . His best-known scripts include the scripts for Felidae (together with Akif Pirinçci , the author of the novel) and Rama dama (together withJoseph Vilsmaier , the director of the film). Kluger also wrote a number of radio plays .

As a novelist, Kluger received a lot of attention with his work Absent Animals , which comprised more than a thousand pages, but above all with the historical novel The Assistant . The assistant links Berlin's social history with the history of medical science about the Charité . The novel, which features not only fictional people but also the physicians and researchers Rudolf Virchow , Robert Koch , Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring , received great critical acclaim and was on the "longlist" for the German Book Prize in 2006 , as well as two years later his novel The bird that went for a walk , for which he was awarded the literature prize of the city of Bremen in 2009. In 2008 Kluger received the Candide Prize together with Mathias Énard .

Martin Kluger lived in Berlin and Montevideo . He died unexpectedly in April 2021 at the age of 73 in Berlin.

Works

Novels

Scripts (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Kämmerlings : With the whole joke of desperation , welt.de, accessed on April 30, 2021.
  2. ↑ Review notes on Die Gehilfin bei perlentaucher.de
  3. ↑ Jo Lendle : He found refuge from the world in the zoo , faz.net, accessed on April 30, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Kluger, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Berlin