Mathias Gatza

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Mathias Gatza (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German publisher , editor and writer .

Life

Mathias Gatza worked as a trainee at Wagenbach Verlag in the 1980s . In 1990 he founded Mathias Gatza Verlag für Literatur in Berlin , where he  edited and published sophisticated fiction  - especially contemporary German literature . Gatza discovered and promoted writers such as Jan Peter Bremer , Wolfgang Hermann , Urs Richle , Michael Roes and Sabine Scholl . In 1995 the publisher had to file for bankruptcy. Gatza continued his publishing activities from 1996 to 1998 within the Eichborn publishing house under the name Gatza bei Eichborn . In addition to new editions, he also published works by Judith Kuckart and Herbert Maurer . Then worked as a lecturer at Berlin Verlag and Suhrkamp Verlag .

In 2003 Gatza finished his work in the publishing industry. He described the break in professional life in his debut novel The Shadow of the Animals . The book was published by Rowohlt Verlag in September 2008 ; it found success with the public and in the feature pages. In autumn 2008, it was counted among the most important new publications by literary criticism; For example, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) judged : "Mathias Gatza wrote the most beautiful debut novel of autumn." The novel was awarded the 2009 Prize of the City of Bremen . From the jury's reasoning:

“The sponsorship award goes to Mathias Gatza for his debut novel 'Der Schatten der Tiere' (The Shadow of the Animals), which tells of a triangular relationship under the star of death and madness in language that is as artistic as it is diagnostically cool. This boldly constructed book pulls the reader into the wake of the characters' self-loss and confronts them with a literary as well as a criminal mystery. "

In his artist novel Der Augentäuscher (2012), Gatza oscillates between the late 17th century and the present. It contains elements of satire , crime fiction, love affairs, epoch paintings and an examination of the art historical origins of still life painting.

In September 2013, together with Ingo Niermann and Henriette Gallus, he founded the “ Fiktion ” project , an international model project funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation that seeks to further develop the opportunities that digitization opens up for the perception and dissemination of sophisticated literature.

Gatza lives and works in Berlin.

Works

  • The shadow of the animals. 1st edition. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-498-02510-4 .
  • The eye deceiver. 1st edition. Graf Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86220-009-2 ; 2nd edition 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c With a season ticket for the zoo. From publisher and editor to writer: the Berlin debut author Mathias Gatza . Review by Jörg Aufenanger in the Berliner Zeitung on January 5, 2009 (accessed January 24, 2009).
  2. ↑ a b See catalog of the German National Library .
  3. ^ Debut novels of the season. The German wool mouse massacre . Report and reviews by Volker Weidermann in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on October 5, 2008 (accessed on January 24, 2009).
  4. ↑ Bremen Literature Prize 2009 for Martin Kluger / Sponsorship Prize for Mathias Gatza . In: BuchMarkt from November 16, 2008 (accessed August 9, 2011).
  5. ↑ Claudia Kramatschek: Sparkling and shimmering from beginning to end. Mathias Gatza: "The eye deceiver". Novel. Graf Publishing House . In: deutschlandfunk.de. Deutschlandfunk (DLF), September 4, 2012, accessed on August 1, 2015 (review in the DLF section “Book Market”).
  6. ↑ See information on About us . In: Website of the model project “ Fiktion ”; accessed on August 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gatza, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin