Michael Farin

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Michael Farin (* 1953 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) is a German German philologist , publisher and author .

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Michael Farin grew up in Neuenkirchen near Soltau in Lower Saxony ; He passed his Abitur in 1973 at the Soltau grammar school . From autumn 1973 he studied German, philosophy and theater studies at the University of Munich . In 1979 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty in the Department of Linguistics and Literature II with the work of Otto Flake's Lauda novels “The City of the Brain” and “No and Yes”: Documentation, Analysis, Bibliography . Farin publishes on topics such as film, criminology, art, literature (e.g. Otto Flake ), philosophy, psychology and desert. He also publishes literature by and about classic characters of sadomasochism such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Erzsébet Báthory , Donatien Alphonse François de Sade , Octave Mirbeau , Ernst Schertel and Maria Eichhorn .

With Romuald Karmakar he wrote the screenplays for Der Totmacher and Frankfurter Kreuz .

In 1982 he founded the publishing house belleville in Munich . From 1984 to 1988 Farin was head of department in the Munich cultural department.

From 1980, Farin wrote and produced radio plays, radio play adaptations and features for Bayerischer Rundfunk , Hessischer Rundfunk , Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Deutschlandfunk , some of which he also directed. Several of his arrangements were named radio play of the month , the arrangement of Metropolis after Thea von Harbou was 2001 "radio play of the year". In 2013 Farin received the Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann Prize (together with Katarina Agathos and Susanne Heim) for the documentary audio edition of the Bavarian radio station The Sources Speak. The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany .

In 2000, Farin staged the play Mein Freund Hitler by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima at the Bavarian State Theater . Farin was responsible for various productions for the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin : Kyffhäuser / Company Barbarossa / Dreams of Death! (2012), Black Gold (2013), Call me Burroughs (2014). In 2013 he performed the concert performance Polka Hurricane - Corridos prohibidos together with Zeitblom at the “Böse Musik” festival in the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

In 1999 he curated the exhibition “Police Report 1799–1999” in Munich and in 2003 “Phantom of Lust” in Graz, and in 2005 the exhibition “polymorphic pervers” for the Weimar Art Festival .

Michael Farin lives in Munich.

Works

Radio plays

Editions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BR radio play Pool - Farin, The inner tower .
  2. ^ Criminal case Vera Bruhne. Radio play in 3 parts and 9 hours of original sound
personal data
SURNAME Farin, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg (Wümme)