Marvin Chlada

Marvin Chlada (* 1970 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German social scientist, author and musician.

life and work

Marvin Chlada completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and after completing his community service at the University of Duisburg-Essen studied social sciences with Dankwart Danckwerts , Hedda Herwig and Jochen Zimmer, among others . The focus of his scientific work is the analysis of everyday and popular culture as well as the theory and social history of utopian thinking. Chlada is a member of the Democracy Working Group at the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS).

In addition to his work as an editor and author of non-fiction books, Chlada writes glosses, reports and essays. His literary, often satirical, texts are commonly assigned to pop literature .

The first text works based on the cut-up method date from the late 1980s. They flowed z. Partly in the lyrics of various band projects (e.g. The Love Cats ) or were presented as spoken word performances at concerts .

Chlada went on extensive reading tours with Gerd Dembowski and Johannes Grenzfurthner / Evelyn Fürlinger from monochrom, among others . In 2002, in collaboration with Marcus S. Kleiner and Stephan Maus , the radio play Discourse - End - Life (director: Leonhard Koppelmann ) was produced by WDR .

In 2014, Chlada celebrated its 25th stage anniversary as part of the event series "Pipelines - Live audio plays / audio theater" in the Harmonie pub in Duisburg-Ruhrort.

Reception and criticism

Utopian discourse

Marvin Chlada is considered to be the representative of an intentional concept of utopia in the tradition of Ernst Bloch and Karl Mannheim , which he tries to update and expand with recourse to post-structuralist approaches.

Chlada's dissolution of the concept of utopia is criticized by Peter R. Werder, among others. Chlada is "rather generous with utopia and utopian, without defining the terms precisely or clearly declaring them."

Richard Saage describes Chlada's “ postmodern ” diagnosis of the utopian as “fatal” because it does not open up an emancipatory alternative to the status quo: “Chlada is in the tradition of Bloch's intentional utopian concept. But it is just as clear that he synthesizes it with Foucault's postmodern heterotopia . So it seems significant that Chlada only devotes his attention to one single historical development: It is the 'change of epochs' from modernity to postmodernism. "

Pop discourse

The constellation “pure sound vs. pure sound” presented by Marvin Chlada and Marcus S. Kleiner in their book Klangmaschine (2001) under the slogan “Pop is dead”. Pop ”is characterized by Diedrich Diederichsen as a“ discourse-shattering ”and“ terminoclastic ”effort. Ultimately, however, such a juxtaposition is "similar to the early 1980s as the deconstructive furor."

Ulrike Wörner, Tilman Rau and Yves Noir acknowledge the sound machine as a “great cut-up view of contemporary pop culture.” Enno Stahl states, referring to the sequel Radio Derrida (2003): “As strong as Chlada / Kleiner's analyzes are on the descriptive level , one misses the synthesis a little. However, this is also the result of a conscious attitude of refusal, which deliberately eludes the 'old European' knowledge processes, theory or meaning formation. "

Publications (selection)

Works

• Ball & pear. To the criticism of the prevailing football culture . With drawings by Burkhard Fritsche taken from fan life (together with Dieter Bott and Gerd Dembowski), VSA: Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-87975-711-4
• The new saints. Reports from the media heaven (together with Gerd Dembowski), 2 volumes, Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2000 and 2001, ISBN 978-3-932710-27-8 (Vol. 1) and ISBN 978-3-932710-35 -3 (vol. 2)
• Sound machine. Pop-Analyzes 1 (together with Marcus S. Kleiner), Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg and Loudspeaker-Verlag: Freiburg / Br. 2001, ISBN 978-3-932902-23-9
• Radio Derrida. Pop-Analyzes 2 (together with Marcus S. Kleiner), Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-932710-44-5
• The will to utopia , Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-932710-73-5
• Heterotopia and experience. Outline of the heterotopology according to Michel Foucault , Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-86569-006-7
• Dialectic of the cleavage. On the critical theory of bust size , Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-86569-019-7
• The beautiful confusion of life. Poems & Cut-Ups , situation press Loeven & Gorny: Duisburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-935673-34-1
• Charles Fourier . An introduction to his thinking (together with Andreas Gwisdalla), Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86569-180-4
• Logic of seduction. Poems, Verlag Dialog-Edition: Duisburg-Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-3-945634-04-2
• The poet as a rag collector. Reports and interviews, Verlag Dialog-Edition: Duisburg-Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-3-945634-05-9

Editorships

• The universe of Gilles Deleuze . An introduction, Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2000, 2nd revised edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-86569-022-7
• Critical Theory in the Province. Heinz Maus (1911-1978) on his 90th birthday (together with Jochen Zimmer), Trikont: Duisburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-88974-105-9
• Foucault's labyrinth. An introduction (together with Gerd Dembowski), Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-932710-32-2 (Chinese Edition: Commercial Press: Beijing 2005, 3rd edition 2011, ISBN 7-100-04430-8 )
• Lara Croft . A myth is deconstructed (together with Wolfgang Haible), series: sub: text, vol. 1, Trikont: Duisburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-88974-500-2
• Is it all pop? Capitalism and Subversion (together with Gerd Dembowski and Deniz Ünlü), Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-932710-48-3
• The game of lust. Sexuality, identity and power with Michel Foucault (together with Marc-Christian Jäger), Alibri-Verlag: Aschaffenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86569-031-9
• Situationist International (together with Bernd Kalus), series: Texts on Dialektik, Vol. 7, Verlag Trikont-Duisburg and Verlag Dialog-Edition: Duisburg-Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-3-945634-29-5
• Lemmy . A homage (together with Jerk Götterwind), Verlag Trikont-Duisburg and Verlag Dialog-Edition: Duisburg-Istanbul 2017, ISBN 978-3-945634-19-6
• Störtebeker . Seeräuber, Volksheld, Legende - an anthology , Verlag Trikont-Duisburg and Verlag Dialog-Edition: Duisburg-Istanbul 2017, ISBN 978-3-945634-20-2

Sound carrier

• The Marvelous Love Cats: Nobody Knows But Me , Gray Room 1990 (MC, Ltd.)
• Wickie Dub Band : The Breakfast Sessions , Trikont-Duisburg 2000 (CD, mini-album)
• Klangmaschine - Soundmachine , Ritornell / Mille Plateaux 2002 (CD accompanying the book Klangmaschine by Marvin Chlada and Marcus S. Kleiner with tracks by Frank Bretschneider , Taylor Deupree and Terre Thaemlitz, among others )
• Let's go underground. Live in the Spinach Quail (together with Lütfiye Güzel ), situation press Loeven & Gorny 2014 (double CD), ISBN 978-3-935673-37-2
• Poems & Songs , Trikont-Duisburg 2014 (MC, Ltd.), ISBN 978-3-88974-200-1

radio play

• Diskurs - Ende - Leben (together with Marcus S. Kleiner and Stephan Maus), director: Leonhard Koppelmann, production: WDR 2002, first broadcast: WDR 3 , series: WDR 3 open: pop three, December 16, 2002

Movies

• The other in the global village . A manifesto for aliens, documentary, production: medienLABORduisburg 2002, premiere: 26th Duisburger Akzente , Petershalle, June 22, 2002
• Campanellas Sonnenstadt , short film, production: TLPro 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Marvin Chlada in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Marvin Chlada  in the German Digital Library
• Results on Marvin Chlada at the social science specialist portal Sowiport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the bibliography in Johannes Ullmaier: From Acid to Adlon and back. A journey through German-language pop literature , Ventil-Verlag: Mainz 2001, p. 180 and 196
2. ↑ Materials and works from this period are documented in Marvin Chlada: The beautiful confusion of life. Poems & Cut-Ups , situation press Loeven & Gorny: Duisburg 2013
3. ↑ A recording of the event was published under the title Poems & Songs (Trikont-Duisburg 2014).
4. ↑ Cf. inter alia Martin d'Idler: Die Modernisierung der Utopie. On the change of the new man in the political utopia of the modern age , Lit-Verlag: Berlin / Münster 2007, p. 39ff .; Andreas Heyer: The status of current German utopia research , Vol. 3: Theoretical and methodological approaches of current research, 1996–2009, Verlag Dr. Kovač: Hamburg 2010, p. 55ff .; Hauke ​​Thoroe: criticism of rule. Analyzes, actions, alternatives , Seitenhieb-Verlag : Flensburg 2010, p. 133; Birgit Schäfer-Biermann et al .: Foucault's heterotopias as a research tool , Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2016, p. 75ff.
5. ↑ Peter R. Werder: Utopias of the present. Between tradition, focus and virtuality . With prefaces by Georg Kohler and PM, Seismo-Verlag: Zürich 2009, p. 21ff.
6. ^ Richard Saage: Utopieforschung , Vol. 2: On the threshold of the 21st century, Lit-Verlag: Berlin / Münster 2008, p. 24f.
7. ^ Diedrich Diederichsen: Music room. Avant-garde and everyday life , Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Köln 2005, pp. 75f.
8. ↑ Ulrike Wörner, Tilman Rau, Yves Noir: Narrative writing in class. Workshops for sketches, prose texts, photography , Klett and Kallmeyer: Seelze 2012, p. 21
9. ↑ Enno Stahl: Chaos as Form. Marvin Chlada and Marcus S. Kleiner analyze pop culture , Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2003, in: Deutschlandfunk Archiv