Michael Bittner (Author)
Michael Bittner (born December 25, 1980 in Görlitz ) is a German author and publicist .
life and work
Michael Bittner was born in Görlitz in 1980 and grew up in Diehsa ( Upper Lusatia ) "as a child of the working class" - as he says of himself. He graduated from high school in Niesky, studied German and philosophy at the TU Dresden and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He lives in Berlin.
Together with Roman Israel, Max Rademann, Janusz Kocaj and Stefan Seyfarth, he founded the Dresden reading stage Sax Royal in 2005 , Julius Fischer (also active with The Fuck Hornisschen Orchestra ) joined them later. Sax Royal takes place monthly in the “ Scheune ” cultural center . Bittner read and reads his works there regularly.
Bittner also organizes the livelyriX Poetry Slam in Dresden, which also takes place in Leipzig and Jena , together with Roman Israel, Max Rademann, Julius Fischer and Stefan Seyfarth .
Together with Leif Greinus (Verlag Voland & Quist ), Ludwig Henne, Helge Pfannenschmidt (Verlag edition AZUR ) and the author Volker Sielaff , he organizes Literatur Jetzt! , the Dresden Festival of Contemporary Literature.
Michael Bittner is active as an author of poems, stories and satires and as a literary scholar. He writes for the magazine of the Sächsische Zeitung , the taz (The Truth) , the young world and The Guardian .
Individual publications
- Aesthetic State or Political Art? Georg Büchner's poetics at the end of the art period , Thelem: Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939888-85-7
- We train for capitalism. Satires, columns and other attempts , edition AZUR : Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-942375-10-8
- The emancipation of the flesh and its opponents. Literary sensualism between romanticism and pre-March , Thelem: Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-945363-45-4
- The laughter in my throat. Nine stories , edition AZUR : Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-942375-25-2
- The citizen is worried. New satires and columns, edition AZUR : Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-942375-30-6
Anthologies
- Sax Royal. A reading stage accounts , Voland & Quist : Dresden und Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-938424-49-0 , book and CD
- Satirical quintet (with Peter Ufer , Wolfgang Schaller , Jens-Uwe Sommerschuh and Thomas Bärsch), Verlag Saxo-Phon, Dresden, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943444-08-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Bittner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Bittner's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ website livelyriX Poetry Slam , sub Dresden ( Memento of 2 April 2015, Internet Archive )
- ↑ Michael Bittner: Review: "Literatur Jetzt" 2014 , website of Literatur Jetzt! , September 22, 2014
- ↑ See for example: The Right Wing of Neoliberalism, in: Junge Welt, October 31, 2019.
- ↑ Article by Michael Bittner in the column The Truth in the taz .
- ↑ Sax Royal. A reading stage accounts, in: Website of the publishing house Voland & Quist
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bittner, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |