Moritz von Uslar

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Hans Moritz Walther Freiherr von Uslar-Gleichen (born July 25, 1970 in Cologne ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Moritz von Uslar's father, Jochem von Uslar, was head of cultural affairs in Bonn . He has two sisters. Uslar grew up in Berlin and attended the Birklehof boarding school in Hinterzarten . After an internship at the Tempo magazine , he worked from 1992 to 2004 as an editor for the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . There he began his interview series 100 questions to… . In 1999, together with Rebecca Casati , he published the collected columns How do you look like? A style criticism . From 2006 to 2008 he worked as an editor for Spiegel . Then he switched to the time . Moritz von Uslar lives in Berlin . He has a son from his relationship with the actress Nicolette Krebitz .

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As a writer, Uslar wrote short stories, such as Davos , which appeared in 1999 in the anthology Mesopotamia edited by Christian Kracht . He wrote the plays Friends (2000), Friends 2 (2001) and Abso-fuckin-lutely. The Best of Lulu (2004). In 2006 his first novel Waldstein or The Death of Walter Gieseking was published on June 6, 2005 .

Deutschboden

In 2010 Uslar's book Deutschboden was published , which dates back to a three-month stay in the small town of Zehdenick in Brandenburg in 2009. Uslar had explored 18 places before he decided on Zehdenick. The report-like book is subtitled A Participating Observation . It is named after a residential area in the forest near the city. Uslar describes and quotes various city dwellers with whom he met regularly in various pubs from the first person perspective, but also uses the third person when he writes about "the reporter". The city of Zehdenick is called "Oberhavel" in the book. The documentary Deutschboden was released in 2014, directed by André Schäfer, in which Uslar and some of the book's protagonists appear.

In 2017, the writer Manja Präkels, born in Zehdenick, accused Uslar of playing down the right-wing radical past of his protagonists in a Spiegel article . Uslar replied in a Zeit article that he had repeatedly addressed right-wing radicalism and that his protagonists were too young to be involved in right-wing extremist acts of violence at the beginning of the 1990s, which Präkels also describes in her novel When I ate Schnapskirschen with Hitler .

In 2020 Uslar published a second book about Zehdenick with Nochmal Deutschboden . In spring 2019, he revisited the protagonists of his first book. For the book, he organized a conversation between city residents and the then SPD candidate for the 2019 European elections, Katarina Barley , and held discussions with AfD local politicians and residents of the refugee accommodation. While Uslar only describes a sign with the inscription "Deutschboden 1 km" in the first book, but cannot find the actual place, in the second book he has the settlement shown by a small town dweller. It describes the five houses of the settlement and gives the history of the name, which can be read on an information board: The name Deutschboden is derived from a wild fence that was first mentioned in 1592 in writing through the Schorfheide . In the place of today's shield there was a gate that signaled to passing merchants that they were back on German soil. Uslar's book made the Spiegel bestseller list and received mixed reviews. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Johannes Franzen accused Uslar of not being up to the topic ethically or aesthetically. Uslar never comes close to the “actual stories, because he confuses the sadness of the stipulated masculinity cliché” with the sadness that this cliché is supposed to cover up. Cornelius Pollmer praised the book in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, but accused Uslar of inaccurate handling of facts.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz von Uslar: Odenwald School: "Usli, why don't you contradict?" In: The time . June 5, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 12, 2020]).
  2. ^ Moritz von Uslar: Deutschboden. In: The European. Retrieved March 15, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Martina Knoben: Tests of courage between nail studios . In: sueddeutsche.de. March 28, 2014, accessed August 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Manja Präkels, DER SPIEGEL: Moritz von Uslar's novel "Deutschboden" and reality - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  5. ^ Moritz von Uslar: Criticism of "Deutschboden": Due to the occasion . In: The time . December 13, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 13, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Moritz von Uslar: Again Deutschboden. My return to the Brandenburg province. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  7. ^ Johannes Franzen: Forever Hardrockhausen . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . April 5, 2020.
  8. ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: And otherwise? Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Interview with Johanna Adorján : Incredibly funny, next question please in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on June 22, 2014, page 41

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SURNAME Uslar, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uslar-Gleichen, Hans Moritz Walther Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne