Michael Wildenhain

Michael Wildenhain (2015)

Michael Wildenhain ( pseudonym : Carl Wille , born September 20, 1958 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

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Michael Wildenhain is the son of a locksmith and an educator. He grew up in West Berlin .

After graduating from high school, he completed an internship as a mechanical engineer and then studied a. a. Computer science , philosophy , mathematics and industrial engineering . He held various auxiliary jobs and was part of a group of young squatters in Berlin for two years in the early 1980s . After a period as an intern at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, he settled in 1987 as a freelance writer in Berlin.

Michael Wildenhain is the author of novels , short stories , poems , plays and books for young people . In his first works he portrays the squatter and autonomous scene in Berlin-Kreuzberg in the eighties and of the “German Autumn” . In the later novels, contemporary historical objects are presented, and the tension between natural science and humanities is thematized. His pieces deal with topics such as violence and right-wing radicalism among young people. Since 1987 he has received several awards and grants for his book publications. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, a symposium on his work was held in the literature forum in the Brecht House: “History and the individual. On the literary and historical work of Michael Wildenhain ”.

He is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and was on the board from June 2014 to the end of May 2017 and has been chairman of the Berlin State Association (VS Berlin) since May 9, 2018. He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany and joined the Left Party in 2012 .

In March 2018, Wildenhain was one of the first to sign a declaration in which writers and other cultural workers show solidarity with all people who “seek refuge from war, persecution and poverty in our country”.

Works

Michael Wildenhain at the Exhibition Documentation in Dresden

prose

• For example K. , Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
• Prinzenbad , Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1987.
• The cold skin of the city , Berlin 1991.
• Secretly, quietly and quietly , Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Exit Berlin , Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1994 (under the pseudonym Carl Wille ).
• First love - German autumn , Frankfurt am Main 1997.
• The German twin , Rome 1999.
• Wieland, the master or all swans are white , Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• Je t'aime , Rheinsberg 2002.
• Russian bread , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005.
• The sisters , dtv, Munich 2005.
• Dreamers of the Absolute , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008.
• The alligators smile. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-93973-6 .
• The singing of the sirens . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-98304-3 .
• The invention of zero . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-608-98305-0 .

Poetry

• The night is hot , Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1988
• The ticking of the stones , Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1989
• The time as Wolf , Weilerswist, 1995
• Nobody would ever run faster than us , Verl. Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 2005
• The beautiful sharp teeth of the coral , Verl. Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 2007
• The beginning , Künstlerdorf Foundation (publisher), Schöppingen 2008
• How it was - love poems , love, Weilerswist 2011

Children's and young people's literature

• Who does not fight back , Ravensburger, Ravensburg 1994
• Crashcar , Ravensburger, Ravensburg 1995
• Lisa in the circus , illustrations: Wolfgang Slawski, Ravensburger, Ravensburg 1997
• Lisa and Robbi , illustrations: Wolfgang Slawski, Ravensburger, Ravensburg 1998
• The moment of the jump , dtv, Munich 2001
• With a hot heart , dtv, Munich 2007
• Blood Brothers , Ravensburger, Ravensburg 2011
• Leo the hero and the dream of football , Ravensburger, Ravensburg 2014
• All against Lukas , illustrations: Eike Marcus, Ravensburger, Ravensburg 2015

Plays

• Minna Musical , together with Konstantin Wecker and Nicolas Kemmer, Heilbronn 2000
• Dutschke, Im Schlagschatten des Mondes [among others] , pieces, Henschel Schauspiel, Berlin 2012

Awards and honors

• 1987: Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship award
• 1988: Ernst Willner Prize on the 12th days of German-language literature
• 1994: Hans-im-Glück Prize for those who do not defend themselves
• 1997: Alfred Döblin Prize
• 1998: Villa Massimo grant
• 1999: Author's grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
• 2002: Town clerk for Rheinsberg
• 2005/06: Scholarship Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia
• 2006: London Scholarship (Writer in Residence) from the German Literature Fund
• 2008: Alfred Döblin scholarship in the Döblin house in Wewelsfleth
• 2011: Scholarship holder at Villa Decius, Krakow
• 2012: Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg
• 2014: Residence grant at Künstlerhof Schreyahn
• 2015: Dresden city clerk
• 2015: Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize with The Alligators' Smile .
• 2017: Nomination for the German Book Prize for The Singing of the Sirens
• 2018: Scholarship holder at the Writer's House in Stuttgart

literature

• Walter Delabar: violence, catharsis and a successful moment. To the novels by Michael Wildenhain. In: JUNI (1993) No. 18, pp. 106-118.
• Walter Delabar, Werner Jung : Memory and Tools. An interview with Michael Wildenhain. In: JUNI (1995) H. 23, pp. 167-178.
• Walter Delabar: Quick escape. The narrator, poet - and playwright Michael Wildenhain. In: JUNI-Magazin (1998) No. 28, pp. 119–123.
• Walter Delabar: Last Big City Adventure. (West) Berlin novels of the eighties. In: New Generation - New Telling. German prose literature in the eighties. Edited by Walter Delabar, Werner Jung and Ingrid Pergande. Wiesbaden, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1993, pp. 103–125.
• Oliver Binder, Ulrich Müller: Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm as a musical: "Minna Musical" by Michael Wildenhain, Konstantin Wecker, Nicolas Kemmer (2001) . In: Suevica. Contributions to Swabian literary and intellectual history 9 (2001/2002). Stuttgart 2004 [2005], pp. 43-54
• Christian Hippe, Thomas Wild (ed.): History and Individual. On the literary and historical work of Michael Wildenhain . Berlin 2020

Web links

Commons : Michael Wildenhain  - Collection of images

• Literature by and about Michael Wildenhain in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Michael Wildenhain at Literaturport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literature forum in the Brecht House : "Michael-Wildenhain-Symposion"
2. ↑ Association of German Writers : The Berlin Association of German Writers (VS) has elected a new board , online from June 26, 2014
3. ↑ VS Executive Board Berlin, elected on May 31, 2017 ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , online at vs-berlin-brandenburg.de 
4. ↑ New board members , elected on May 9, 2018, online at vs-berlin-brandenburg.de
5. ↑ Our answer for democracy and human rights
6. ^ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair : Nominations and Prize Winners 2015 , online at preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de
7. ↑ Stuttgart Writer's House : previous scholarship holders