Martin Krumbholz

Martin Krumbholz (* 1954 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) is a German literary scholar and journalist .

Life

Growing up in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Krumbholz studied literature and theater studies in Bochum and Munich. He received his doctorate in 1978 in Munich with a thesis on "Irony in the contemporary first-person novel". After working for several years at various theaters (including the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall ), he works as a literary and theater critic for, among others, Die Zeit , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Theater heute and for Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Deutschlandfunk . In 2005, Krumbholz was a member of the jury for the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . He gave the laudatory speech for Jörg Matheis at the award ceremony for literature from the District Association of the Palatinate in 2006 . At the 2008 Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen , he gave the laudation for Christoph Hein . In 2010 Krumbholz was a member of the jury for the Theatertreffen NRW at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and of the jury for the Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen and has been a member of the sponsorship award jury for literature of the state capital Düsseldorf since 2010. In 2012 he was also a member of the jury at the NRW Theatertreffen at the Schauspielhaus Oberhausen. In September 2012, his play Hotel Bogota was premiered at the Darmstadt State Theater .

Martin Krumbholz now lives in Düsseldorf and has a daughter.

Works (selection)

• Irony in the contemporary first-person novel: Grass - Walser - Böll . Fink, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7705-1917-5 .
• Thought strokes. Attempt on "The Marquise of O ...". In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Heinrich von Kleist . Text + criticism Sonderband. , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88377-440-5 , pp. 125-133.
• Hell, fair, garden of Eden. On the dramatic work of Else Lasker-Schuler . In: Text and Critique. 122, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-88377-463-4 , pp. 42-54.
• "Else Lasker-Schüler: Die Wupper", in: Interpretations, Dramas of the 20th Century, Volume 1, Reclam , Stuttgart, 1996, ISBN 3-15-009460-7 , 432 pages
• So you are a glorious nothing. Conversation with Martin Walser . In: I have a desire potential. Suhrkamp TB 2975, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-518-39475-4 , pp. 101-108.
• February . In: Krachkultur 11/2007
• July . In: Sommerfrische , Zeitschrift für Literatur Nr. 59, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89126-559-8
• Hotel Bogotá, play, Drei Masken Verlag , 2011
• Look serious! Marginalia at the end of the ironic age. In: NZZ. April 1, 2000 (PDF file; 22 kB)
• dON Juan, play, Drei Masken Verlag , 2012
• A Little Passion, Roman, Ch. Schroer Verlag , 2013

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Krumbholz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Krumbholz with a play at Drei Masken Verlag
• Homepage Martin Krumbholz