Max Czollek

Max Czollek (2019)

Max Czollek (born May 6, 1987 in Berlin as Maximilian Ruben Czollek ) is a German poet , publicist and coach .

Life

Czollek is the grandson of the resistance fighter and publisher Walter Czollek . His father, the songwriter and politician Michael Czollek , died when Czollek was twelve years old. His mother works for the Heinrich Böll Foundation , his aunt is the mediator Leah Carola Czollek . Czollek attended the Jewish High School in Berlin and graduated from high school in 2006 as the best in his year. He spent a year abroad in Texas while at school. From 2007 to 2012 he studied political science in Berlin . Since 2011 he has been working as a trainer for Leah Czollek's co-founded “Social Justice and Diversity Training”, which is offered as part-time training at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences .

From 2012 to 2016 he did his doctorate at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin under Werner Bergmann and at Birkbeck College, London with a scholarship from the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk . His English-language dissertation on anti-Semitism in early Christianity is entitled The Antisemitism Dispositive. Emergence and Dissemination in Early Christianity . Since 2016 he has been part of the Yalta editorial collective - Positions on the Jewish Present.

Since 2009 he has been a member of the G13 poetry collective. In 2013 he was the initiator of the international poetry project “Babelsprech” to network a young German-language poetry scene, and he has been the German curator of this scene since then (2016–2018 as “Babelsprech.International”). From 2013 to 2017, together with Deniz Utlu , he organized the literary series “Gegenwartsbewältigung” for the Maxim Gorki Theater (Studio Я). Together with Sasha Marianna Salzmann , he was the initiator of the “Disintegration Congress” (2016) on contemporary Jewish positions and the “Radical Jewish Culture Days” (2017), during which his play “Celan with the Ax” was premiered. From 2016 to 2017 he headed the Young Berlin Council with Esra Küçük .

Czollek's poems have been published in numerous literary magazines (including Edit , Belletristik , Aviv and poet ) and anthologies (including the 2017 Yearbook of Poetry ) . In addition, he has received invitations to international literary festivals such as the International Poetry Festival Basel , City2Cities Utrecht, Meridian Czernovitz , Izmir International Festival and Versschmuggel Iran. In autumn 2015, the anthology Lyrik von Jetzt 3. Babelsprech was published by Wallstein Verlag together with the authors Michael Fehr and Robert Prosser . Max Czollek's poems have been translated into numerous languages.

In August 2018 the non-fiction book Desintegriert sich! , in which Czollek formulated a criticism of the functionalization of Jewish and migrant positions in Germany. The considerations are an extension of the concept of the "memory theater", which the German-Canadian sociologist Michal Bodemann introduced in 1996 in the book of the same name.

Czollek regularly comments on current political issues, for example in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Zeit , the taz , the FAZ , the Junge Welt, the Standard or in the Spiegel . Czollek lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Single publications

• Pressure chambers. Poems. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940249-52-4 .
• Jubilee years. Poems. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945832-00-4 .
• AHASVER . Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945832-16-5 .
• Disintegrate! Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26027-6 .
• Limit values. Poems. Verlagshaus Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-945832-34-9 .
• Coping with the present. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3446267725 .

Publications with G13

• 40% paradise. Poems by the G13 poetry collective. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-939557-70-8 .
• That was on purpose. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95566-018-5 .

Editing

• Max Czollek, Michael Fehr , Robert Prosser (eds.): Lyrik von Jetzt 3 / Babelsprech , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1739-0 .
• Max Czollek, Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Ed.): Disintegration. A congress of contemporary Jewish positions , Kerber Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0340-1
• With Micha Brumlik , Marina Chernivsky, Hannah Peaceman, Anna Schapiro, Lea Wohl von Haselberg: Jalta. Positions on the Jewish present. Half-yearly publication , from 2017 ISSN  2510-3725
• Leah Carola Czollek , Gudrun Perko , Corinne Kaszner, Max Czollek: Practical Guide Social Justice and Diversity: Theories, Training, Methods, Exercises. completely revised and expanded 2nd edition, Beltz Juventa 2019, ISBN 978-3779938453

Awards

• 2013 International grant for poets and translators Meridian Chernivtsi .
• 2017 Bonn Literature Prize
• 2018 scholarship from the Tarabya Culture Academy, Istanbul
• 2019 Václav Burian Poetry Prize, Olomouc

Translations

• Vapur Magazine , May, Istanbul 2018.
• Asymptote , Spring Issue, USA 2017.
• Aviv Magazine, No. 1 , Berlin / Tel Aviv 2016.
• Poesis internațional , No. 18, Bucharest 2016.
• El fin de la affirmacion. Antología de novísima poesía alemana. pulqui, Argentina 2015.
• IDIOT / DE DEC / December 2015 , IDIOT Magazine, Ljubljana 2015.

Web links

Commons : Max Czollek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Max Czollek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile on literaturport.de. Retrieved March 10, 2016 . 
• Author's archive: Max Czollek. G13, accessed May 1, 2015 . 
• Ruprecht Volz: Spreading your fingers. Interview with Max Czollek at the Leipzig Book Fair 2015. Signaturen Magazin, accessed on May 1, 2015 . 
• Website of the Babelsprech project. Retrieved May 11, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Through the danger area with Max Czollek. Retrieved July 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ | GreenCampus - The Heinrich Böll Foundation's advanced training academy. Retrieved July 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Christine Schmitt: Max, the thinker. Philosophy and abroad: how a young man at the Jewish high school got a first-class Abitur. Jüdische Allgemeine, July 13, 2006, accessed May 1, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Social Justice - About Us. Retrieved July 14, 2020 . 
5. ^ University of Applied Sciences Potsdam: Social Justice and Diversity 2020-2021. Retrieved July 14, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Antisemitism dispositive. In: TU Berlin. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Babelsprech.org. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 30, 2019 ; accessed on May 18, 2017 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Topic page festival disintegration. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
10. ^ Radical Jewish Culture Days. Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 
11. ^ Open call to the Young Berlin Council. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
12. ↑ House :: poetry VERSschmuggel Persian-German. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Max Czollek. Poet Shop, accessed May 1, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Poet of Success. In: The daily newspaper . 2015, accessed May 1, 2015 . 
15. ↑ "Today I have to justify myself if I don't want to sing along to the German anthem" . Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 25, 2018
16. ↑ Chemnitz: If you are surprised, raise your right arm . Die Zeit, September 3, 2018
17. ↑ Comment on the anti-Semitism program: Missed eye level . De daily newspaper, May 22, 2019
18. ↑ The complicity of language. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 
19. ↑ We're still there too . Junge Welt, November 3, 2018
20. ↑ Author Max Czollek: "There is no such thing as positive nationalism" . The standard, accessed May 24, 2019
21. ↑ "It will never be normal again" . Der Spiegel, September 5, 2018
22. ↑ Open Call: Family Party - Asymptote. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (English).