Michael Kleeberg

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Michael Kleeberg presents his novel "Vaterjahre" at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2014
Michael Kleeberg 2013

Michael Kleeberg (born August 24, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer , essayist and literary translator . He has been awarded several prizes.

Live and act

Michael Kleeberg spent his youth in Friedrichshafen, Bitz, Böblingen and Hamburg . He studied political science and history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the HbK Hamburg. Between 1978 and 1984 he worked as a showman in the Hamburg harbor, as a nursing assistant in the St. Pauli harbor hospital, as a journalist for cinema , rally racing and the NDR.

In 1983 he lived in Rome, 1984 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, 1985/1986 in Amsterdam. In 1986 he moved to Paris , where, in addition to writing, he was co-owner of the Franco-German advertising agency MPI until 1994. From 1996 to 2000 he lived as a freelance writer in Burgundy and since then in Berlin .

Since 2002, based on the writer exchange West-Eastern Divan , he has spent extended periods in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Egypt). Kleeberg also makes the reference in his book The Idiot of the 21st Century: A Divan (2018). In 2017 he caused a public controversy in connection with statements critical of Islam during his Frankfurt poetics lecture, as a result of which the manager of the lecture series distanced herself from Kleeberg's statements.

His work has been translated into the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Danish, English, French, Greek, Japanese, Spanish. Michael Kleeberg is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

poetics

In Michael Kleeberg in conversation (2013), Kleeberg provides detailed information about his poetics for the first time . In a written dialogue, he explains and comments on his own reader biography, among other things, it is about writing, autobiographical influences, experiences with books and the literary business , the structures of the literary market, on which he has a special eye as a long-lived abroad. literary landmarks, challenges that arise in the conception of his novels. He reflects on the relationship between literature and theory, philosophy and history. He will be visible as a decided representative and defender of the model of an aesthetically and ethically ambitious and committed, over time relevant literature: presented and assessed and addressed and made bearable will the world solely through art .

Kleeberg contradicts the tendency to [...] eagerly level art under the pretext of razing supposedly elitist bastions as being highly dangerous and counterproductive . In this way, he creates an understanding of literature for himself that combines narrative advancement with a humanistic duty to explore the human condition and the representation of the inexpressible, apparently hopeless tragedy of human existence.

Critics emphasized, among other things, that it became clear in the conversation that Kleeberg had gained his idea of ​​literature from thorough reading and reflection , as well as Michael Kleeberg's comments on art theodicy .

Works

Translations

Awards

literature

  • Germany is essentially empty. From a conversation with Michael Kleeberg. In: Lists. 9 1993, H. 33, 14/18.
  • Collective self-mortification and arch-reactionary aristocracy. An interview with Michael Kleeberg about literature and political moods. In: Lists. 12 1996, H. 46, 14/16.
  • Kerstin Hensel: The Pilgrim to Böblingen. Talk to Michael Kleeberg. In: Argonaut ship. 6 1997, 97/99.
  • Jörg Magenau : The body as a cut surface. Comments on the literature of the latest "New Innerity". Texts by Reto Hänny, Ulrike Kolb, Ulrike Draesner, Durs Grünbein, Thomas Hettche, Marcel Beyer and Michael Kleeberg. In: Construction site contemporary literature. 1998, 107/121.
  • Sieglinde Klettenhammer: The recovery of the utopian. Michael Kleeberg's novel “A Garden in the North” in the context of postmodern aesthetic conceptions and the phenomenon of art themes in literature of the 80s and 90s. In: Contemporary literature. 2002, 153/158.
  • Andreas Böhn: Memory, musealization and alternative history in Michael Kleeberg's novel 'Ein Garten im Norden' and Wolfgang Becker's film 'Good Bye, Lenin'. In: Memory traces. 2005, pp. 245-260.
  • Alain Cozic: Les nouvelles de Michael Kleeberg - littérature et réalité. In: La nouvelle génération d'écrivains de langue allemande. 2006, pp. 27-42.
  • Andreas Martin Widmann : Representative outsider of contemporary German literature - a conversation with the writer and translator Michael Kleeberg. In: Focus on German studies. 14 2007, pp. 223-230.
  • Andreas Martin Widmann: Garden of Eden in another Germany. Counterfactual history as utopia in Michael Kleeberg's “A Garden in the North”. In: Focus on German studies. 14 2007, pp. 3-18.
  • Branka Schaller-Fornoff: Novella and Excitement. To reconsider the genre using the example of Michael Kleeberg's "Barefoot". Georg Olms, 2008.
  • Erhard Schütz: How alternative are alternative stories? I.a. Michael Kleeberg's “A Garden in the North”. In: Nobody gets away. 2008, p. 52.
  • Erhard Schütz: Our east is your west. Powerful and elegant: Michael Kleeberg's oriental narrative fantasy “The Idiot of the 21st Century”. In: Der Tagesspiegel v. August 20, 2018 .
  • Branka Schaller-Fornoff: When Charly learned tennis. On the representation of sport, media and memory in Michael Kleeberg's novel “Karlmann”. In: Literature for Readers. 31 2008, 3, pp. 195-211.
  • Branka Schaller-Fornoff: Fermentations of Pop in Michael Kleeberg's "Karlmann". In: Pop and Masculinity. 2009, pp. 105-118.
  • Branka Schaller-Fornoff: Transcriptions of the turn. Narrative strategies in Michael Kleeberg's novel "A Garden in the North". In: Nachwende-Narrationen. 2010, pp. 57-72.
  • Branka Schaller-Fornoff: Images of France in Michael Kleeberg's work. In: reflections, refractions. 2011, pp. 319-330.
  • Lidwine Portes: literary perspectives of the turnaround using the example of Michael Kleeberg's short story “Birth of the Cool” and his novel “A Garden in the North”. In: Tournants et (ré) écritures littéraires. L'Harmattan, 2010, pp. 49-61.
  • Lidwine Portes: Rien que des fantômes. Poétique de la spectralité dans les romans de Michael Kleeberg “A Garden in the North” et “The American Hospital”. In: You texts à l'image: Appropriations du passé et engagements au présent. collection “Le Texte et l'Idée”, Nancy 2010, pp. 107–116.

Web links

Commons : Michael Kleeberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Walther: Scandal at the Frankfurt Lecture: Reactionary Abysses of Poetics . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 6, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Volker Breidecker: Bocksgesang, innocent lamb . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 5, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed September 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ See Johannes Birgfeld: Nachbemerkung. In: Michael Kleeberg, Johannes Birgfeld: Michael Kleeberg in conversation. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2013, p. 145.
  4. ↑ Michael Braun: The author as the first witness. Johannes Birgfeld's clever workshop talk with Michael Kleeberg. on: www.literaturkritik.de
  5. ↑ Michael Kleeberg in conversation. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2013, p. 32.
  6. ↑ Michael Kleeberg in conversation. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2013, p. 60.
  7. ↑ See Michael Kleeberg in conversation. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2013, pp. 55, 63, 89.
  8. ↑ Michael Kleeberg in conversation. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2013, p. 65.
  9. ^ Peter Körte: Authors. [Review of: Michael Kleeberg in conversation. ] In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. July 14, 2013, p. 42.
  10. ↑ Michael Braun: The author as the first witness. Johannes Birgfeld's clever workshop talk with Michael Kleeberg. on: www.literaturkritik.de
  11. ↑ buchmarkt.de of March 20, 2015
  12. ↑ buchmarkt.de of October 31, 2015
  13. ↑ Press release of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from January 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kleeberg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart