Martin von Arndt

Martin von Arndt at the Hausacher Leselenz 2015

Martin von Arndt (* 1968 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German writer , translator , musician and scientist .

life and work

Martin von Arndt was born in 1968 as the son of Hungarian-German parents in Ludwigsburg. He studied religious studies , German literature and psychology in Saarbrücken, Budapest and Würzburg with a final doctorate on depth psychological Bible exegesis . Today he lives in Markgröningen and Essen .

Since 2017 he has been chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS) Baden-Württemberg (in a double leadership together with Christine Lehmann ), as well as a member of the German PEN Center .

Whereas earlier works by Arndts in pictures and sophisticated language were caught up in the tradition of symbolism and surrealism , the more recent novel prose testifies to political or socially critical reflection (ego shooter, Oktoberplatz) or tragicomic distance ( death is a postman with a hat ). In his novel, Days of Nemesis, published in 2014, he addresses the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the acts of revenge by the Armenian terrorist group Operation Nemesis and the German co-responsibility for the genocide. The book Rattenlinien, published in 2016, which takes up the story of the main characters of Days of Nemesis, deals with the topic of the escape routes of German Nazi war criminals after the Second World War . With the book Soyuz, published in 2019, which deals with the Hungarian uprising of 1956, von Arndt closes a trilogy of novels about the fictional Berlin ex-commissioner Andreas Eckart.

Poems translated by Arndt from French ( Tristan Corbière , Maurice Rollinat ), English ( Robert Frost , Stephen Pain ), Spanish ( Rubén Darío ) and Hungarian ( Attila József ).

music

In 1983 von Arndt founded the music formation Printed at Bismarck's Death , which produced seven albums between free jazz , avant-garde , techno , dance and electronica , as well as radio plays and film music, theater and dance theater performances in Germany and Europe. Since 1997 he has been the saxophonist in the band In My Rosary and was involved in the joint project Griffin's Fall.

Scholarships and Awards

• 2000 Limburg Prize Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim, 'Rheinpfalz' sponsorship award
• 2002 Working scholarship for the support group of German writers in Baden-Württemberg
• 2003 City Clerk of Rottweil, Federal Foreign Office grant
• 2004 Working scholarship for the support group of German writers in Baden-Württemberg
• 2006 Working grant for the support group of German writers in Baden-Württemberg
• 2007 Baden-Württemberg State Literature Scholarship
• 2008 Invitation to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt
• 2009 LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Best Book Title category for Death is a Postman with a Hat
• 2010 Squidward Troll Prize
• 2019 working scholarship support group of German writers in Baden-Württemberg

Works

• The 40th day before Sophienlund , Stories Peter-Segler-Verlag 1997 (2nd revised edition 2008). ISBN 3-931445-67-4
• God in Self. Depth Psychological Bible Exegesis , Tectum Verlag 1999. ISBN 3-89811-090-7
• Lemuren - works for the theater , Verlag Rote Limmat 2000. ISBN 3-89811-667-0
• Asrael , Lyrik, Peter-Segler-Verlag 2001. ISBN 3-931445-10-0
• The football crash: football marketing, RRS 2002. ISBN 3-8311-3509-6
• Nachtmeerfahrer: literature and psychology - essays on the existence of a difficult liaison , Tectum 2003. ISBN 3-8288-8451-2
• Spirit of the black days , mystery thriller, Peter-Segler-Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-931445-99-2
• We from 1968 , Wartberg Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-8313-1568-X
• ego shooter , Roman, Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag 2007. ISBN 3-937667-91-1
• Classics of the Psychology of Religion , Shaker 2008. ISBN 978-3-86858-164-5
• Depth Psychological Bible Exegesis , Tectum Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-86858-164-5
• Death is a postman with a hat , Roman, Verlag Klöpfer & Meyer 2009. ISBN 978-3-940086-37-2
• Oktoberplatz , Roman, Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-86351-023-7
• Days of Nemesis , novel, ars vivendi Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-86913-424-6
• Rattenlinien , Roman, ars vivendi Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-86913-724-7
• Soyuz , Roman, ars vivendi Verlag 2019. ISBN 978-3-86913-974-6

Web links

Commons : Martin von Arndt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Martin von Arndt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• "The evasion of the younger generation into technical dimensions". Interview with Arndt at Telepolis
• Arndt at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition , ORF