Philipp Stadelmaier

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Philipp Stadelmeier presents Queen July at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2019

Philipp Stadelmaier (* 1984 in Stuttgart ) is a German film critic , film scholar , freelance writer and playwright.

Life

Philipp Stadelmaier studied comparative literature and romance languages in Frankfurt am Main . He has been writing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2012, and for the Filmbulletin since 2015 . His essays appeared among others. a. in German Vogue , on the Merkur blog and in the literary magazine Metamorphosen .

In 2016, Verbrecher Verlag published the diary essay “The Middle Regions. About opinion and terror ”, written in Paris after the attacks of January and November 2015.“ A young man is struggling to understand what is happening in the world; why everything splits up into units that everyone thinks is the navel of the world and its measure. That's what the author means by the middle regions. [...] And thinking itself is simply our task, that becomes clear to you and that is ultimately the central message that the young author conveys with his volume of essays, "said Martina Senghas in SWR2 . For this text, Stadelmaier was awarded the Clemens Brentano Prize for Literature from the City of Heidelberg in July 2018 . The jury's justification stated: “The chronologically ordered records meditate on our ability to react to terror beyond stereotypes. The lightness and elegance of Stadelmaier's prose prevent common answers from locking into place. Thinking itself becomes transparent here. "

In 2017, the grotesque comedy Vanishing Points was his first play.

His first novel, Queen July , was published in 2019 .

Philipp Stadelmaier lives in Vienna and is currently doing his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main and Paris with a thesis on film studies on Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire (s) du cinéma and the French film critic Serge Daney.

Works

  • The middle regions. About terror and opinion. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2016 ISBN 9783957321558
  • Vanishing points. Play, manuscript available from theater publisher schaefersphilippen, Cologne 2017
  • Queen July . Novel. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783957324078

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schaefersphilippen - Stadelmaier. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Clemens Brentano Prize Winner of the City of Heidelberg 2018: The essayist Philipp Stadelmaier | SWR2 . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on July 23, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Clemens Brentano Prize of the City of Heidelberg 2018 awarded to Philipp Stadelmaier. July 20, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Clemens Brentano Prize: "Terror and opinion are two zombies" . ( rnz.de [accessed on July 23, 2018]).
  5. ↑ schaefersphilippen - Vanishing Points. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stadelmaier, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic, film scholar, freelance writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart