Philipp Winkler (writer)

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Philipp Winkler (2017)

Philipp Winkler (* 1986 in Neustadt am Rübenberge , Lower Saxony ) is a German writer .

Life

Training and first short stories

Philipp Winkler grew up in Hagenburg near Hanover . He studied creative writing and cultural journalism until 2012 , then literary writing at the University of Hildesheim .

For the first time, Winkler drew attention as an author in 2008 with the short story Summer Days in Beirut , which he submitted for the competition for the Joseph Heinrich Colbin Prize on the subject of "Orient in the Occident in the Orient". The text took at the first time by the online magazine on one side the first place free and the network culture Journalists (NFC) ausgelobten Literature Prize. In 2012 Winkler took part in the festival for young literature juLi in June , in whose anniversary volume an excerpt from summer days in Beirut or Beirut was seen and ... was included. He has published various works in literary magazines and anthologies, including the short story Honkie in Bella triste (2014). Winkler also wrote film reviews for the film magazine player .

Philipp Winkler

Success with his debut novel "Hool"

In 2015 Winkler received a scholarship from the “Werkstatt für Junge Literatur” in Graz , where he won the Retzhof Prize from the Literaturhaus Graz for excerpts from his debut novel Hool . Hool , which was published by the Aufbau-Verlag in September 2016 , plays in the Hanoverian hooligan scene around the football club Hannover 96 and focuses on the young first-person narrator Heiko Kolbe. Winkler had published a guest article on the hooligan problem in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in connection with the riots during the European Football Championship 2016 in France under the title Insight into the battle zone behind the door .

Hool received critical acclaim before it was published and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize . Thomas Klupp rated the work as such a “tough, deeply sad and deadly comic debut novel”. as it has been since Clemens Meyers When we dreamed no more in Germany. Moritz Rinke praised Winkler's first novel as “moving, powerful and with a keen sense for the world of outsiders”, while Andreas Platthaus (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) included the work in his selection of the “most beautiful novels of autumn”. Platthaus rated Hool as an “uncompromising novel” that was “more than an eerily intense insight into an otherwise hermetically sealed world”, but “also the sociogram of a young adult who has nothing but violence”.

Philipp Winkler lives as a freelance author in Leipzig . He completed u. a. Stays abroad in Kosovo , Albania , Serbia and Japan .

Works

Short stories (selection)

  • 2008: Summer days in Beirut
  • 2014: Honkie
  • 2014: Sad Satan

Novels

Awards

  • 2008: Joseph Heinrich Colbin Prize for Summer Days in Beirut
  • 2015: Scholarship from the “Workshop for Young Literature” in Graz
  • 2015: Retzhof Prize for Young Literature from the Literaturhaus Graz for extracts from Hool
  • 2016: Scholarship holder in the artist village Schöppingen
  • 2016: Nomination on the shortlist of the German Book Prize for Hool
  • 2016: aspekte literature prize for hool

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e "Philipp Winkler: Literature in Lower Saxony". Accessed August 27, 2016. http://www.literatur-niedersachsen.de/autoren/detailansicht/philipp-winkler.html .
  2. ↑ Patett, Solveigh (ed.): How juLi came to june: 10 years of the young literature festival in Weimar . Weimar: Bertuch, 2013. p. 74.
  3. ↑ "Joseph Heinrich Colbin Prize". Literature. Accessed August 27, 2016. http://de.literatur.wikia.com/wiki/Joseph-Heinrich-Colbin-Preis .
  4. ↑ Winkler, Philipp: See summer days in Beirut or Beirut and ... (excerpt). In: Patett, Solveigh (ed.): How juLi came to june: 10 years of the young literature festival in Weimar . Weimar: Bertuch, 2013. pp. 70–74.
  5. ↑ "BELLA triste» BELLA triste 40 ". Accessed August 27, 2016. http://www.bellatriste.de/?p=974 .
  6. ↑ "Philipp Winkler - Authors Lexicon - Literaturport.de". Accessed August 27, 2016. http://www.literaturport.de/Philipp.Winkler/ .
  7. ↑ a b "Philipp Winkler". Accessed August 27, 2016. http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/philipp-winkler .
  8. ↑ Winkler, Philipp: Insight into the combat zone behind the door . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 25, 2016, No. 146, p. 12 ( online version ).
  9. ↑ a b "Hool". Accessed August 27, 2016. http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/hool.html .
  10. ↑ Platthaus, Andreas: Which book strikes the hour . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 13, 2016, No. 188, p. 9 ( online version ).
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt am Rübenberge , Lower Saxony