Matthias Körner (Author)

Matthias Körner (born September 23, 1954 in Kamenz ) is a German writer , feature and radio play author .

Life

Körner comes from a family of teachers. After graduating from high school in 1973, he studied from 1975 to 1979 at the Plant Production Section of the Humboldt University in Berlin to become a qualified agricultural engineer . He then worked for an agricultural production cooperative (LPG) in the Kamenz district and completed a distance learning course at the Leipzig Literature Institute , after which he worked part-time as district secretary of the Cottbus writers' association in the LPG.

Körner realized works for film and television, radio plays, features and prose. His first novel The dead leg and his novel reprieve wrote Ulrich Plenzdorf screenplays. His film essay And do not lead us in temptation to a film about the Lord's Prayer from 1992, shot in the Welzow-Süd opencast mine , was nominated for a Catholic film festival in Poland. His play Not a Last Day was premiered at the Cottbus State Theater .

Körner is a member of the PEN Center and the Association of German Writers .

Körner lives in Illmersdorf , a district of the Brandenburg town of Drebkau .

Awards

• 1990: Hans Marchwitza Prize, Academy of the Arts
• 1991: Short radio play award, Germany's broadcaster culture
• 1992: Brandenburg Literature Prize Promotion Prize , State of Brandenburg
• 1992: Environmental Literature Prize for Galgenfrist (Novelle; 1993), State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1994: Ehm-Welk Literature Prize for Country Life (short story; 1994)
• 2015: Brandenburgischer Kunst-Förderpreis for the man who gets off the train with a bicycle , State of Brandenburg

Körner also received several grants.

Works (selection)

Books

• The club of the dead. Novel; Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle / Saale 1988. ISBN 978-3-354-00318-7
• Deadly water. Detective novel, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , 2003 ISBN 978-3-378-00652-2

Illustrated books

• with Thomas Kläber : Park and Branitz Castle. In the footsteps of Prince Pückler. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2001 ISBN 978-3-936-09234-9
• with Thomas Kläber: There you sink into a paradise. Prince Pückler's garden landscapes. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 2006 ISBN 978-3-378-01083-3

Radio plays

• Winter supply. Short radio play; 1991 (Production: Funkhaus Berlin ; Director: Angelika Perl; Dramaturgy: Gabriele Bigott )
• The cold heart . Adaptation after Wilhelm Hauff ; 1992 (Production: DS Kultur ; Director: Gerda Zschiedrich ; Composition: Hermann Naehring )
• Brother Heinrich. 2000 (Production: MDR , Kathrin Kiehl; Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch )
• Farewell. Five-part audio piece series; 2000 (Production: RBB ; Director: Peter Groeger ; Composition: Peter Gotthardt )
• A life to ironic death. Audio image; 2001

Features

• Ready for the museum? 1996
• 100 years of Oskar Schmidt. 1997
• What should we have done differently? 1998
• Annaburg. (five episodes), 2000
• The chicken princess. 2003
• Günter Gaus. A permanent representative is changing Germany. 2004
• How do you get paradises. The garden monument curator Dieter Hennebo. 2005
• The spirit of the free cooperative. The life of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch. 2008
• The white gold. 2010
• The gold of Lausitz. 2011
• The Wörlitz Garden Kingdom. Model of an ideal world. 2011 (Production: MDR; Director: Christoph Dietrich )
• Every sorbian heart is a rock. The history of the Domowina. 2012 (Production: MDR; Director: Nikolai von Koslowski )
• The swan song of the whales. Whaling in Lofoten. 2012 (Production: MDR; Director: Ulf Köhler)
• Dresden's patron and bankrupt Count Brühl. From page to prime minister. 2013 (Production: MDR; Director: Stefan Kanis )
• Groundwater. The creeping tide. 2014 (Production: MDR; Director: Matthias Seymer)
• The quiet peace with the war. 2016 (Production: MDR; Director: Sabine Ranzinger )

Movie and TV

• 1992: And don't tempt us. Film essay
• 1994: In this country . Watch TV; four episodes
• 2001: Lena and Paul. Screenplay with Helmut Fischer ; Animated television series; ten episodes (co-production: Rothkirch Cartoon-Film, Baumhaus Medien AG and ORB ; director: Maya Gräfin Rothkirch )

literature

• Matthias Körner. The yardstick for literature was court scrutiny. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Volume 157, Verlag des Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels, 1990, pp. 277 ff.
• Matthias Körner. In: Alfred Diwersy , Dorothea Kleine : Killing procedures. A German-German anthology. Volume 9 of Edition Karlsberg, Hempel Verlag, 1990, p. 40 ff. ISBN 978-3-925-19270-8
• Koerner, Matthias. In: PEN - The Author's Lexicon 2015/16 , Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag , 2015. ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

• Matthias Körner on literary port
• Matthias Körner in the audio game database HspDat.to

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catrin Würz: Memory of the vanished homeland. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 8, 2013.
2. ↑ Short biography of Matthias Körner. On: [Art in the Brandenburg State Parliament: Text + Dance.] Public relations department, Brandenburg State Parliament, 2016.
3. ↑ Ida Kretzschmar: The man who gets off the train with a bicycle. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , February 7, 2015.
4. ↑ http://www.mwfk.brandenburg.de/cms/detail.php/bb1.c.389142.de. Ministry of Science, Research and Culture, State of Brandenburg, February 6, 2015
5. ↑ A book about feelings about opencast mining in Lusatia. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , February 15, 2005.