Raul Zelik

Raul Zelik (2018)

Raul Zelik (* 1968 in Munich ) is a German writer , journalist , translator and political scientist .

Life

Raul Zelik at the Festival of the Left (2018)

Zelik has been working as a freelance writer since 1992. In 1997, he published his debut novel Friss und die sein ( Edition Nautilus ), in which the death of the right-wing extremist Gerhard Kaindl is negotiated. Novels and non-fiction books on Latin America followed in 1999, followed by a script project with director Detlev Buck in 2001. Zelik's breakthrough came with the novel Berlin Relationships (Blumenbar-Verlag), which was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2005. Zelik's subsequent novel Der armed Freund (Blumenbar-Verlag 2007), which tells the Basque conflict on the basis of an unequal friendship, was described by Beatrix Langner in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as a “beneficial antidote to the heated up terrorism discourse”. Together with Petra Elser, Zelik published the novel Der gefrorene Mann (by Joseba Sarrionandia, Blumenbar-Verlag) in 2007 , one of the first direct literary translations from Basque. In 2010 he published a book of conversations with the Marxist political economist Elmar Altvater . In it, the two discuss the chances of non-capitalist societies and the failure of state socialism.

With Venezuela más allá de Chávez , La Negra (2004 and 2005 with Editorial Virus, Barcelona), Situaciones Berlinesas and Lagun Armatua (both 2009 with Editorial Txalaparta, Tafalla), some of Zelik's books are also available in Spanish and Basque translations.

At the same time, Zelik was and is active as a social scientist. From 1990 to 1995 he studied political science and Latin American studies at the Free University of Berlin. Since then he has published regularly in specialist publications. His main focus was on the applicability of theoretical concepts to current Latin American politics. Zelik discussed the concept of the state of emergency developed by Giorgio Agamben using the example of Colombia and the concept of the rhizome from Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari in connection with the social movements in Venezuela. Zelik received his doctorate in 2008 with a study on the Colombian paramilitary as a case study of informalized (in) security. From 2005 he taught regularly in Berlin, in 2008 he was visiting professor at the IEPRI (Institute for Political Studies and International Relations) in Bogotá . In 2009 he was appointed professor of political science at the National University of Colombia and taught political theory and international politics in Medellín. He gave up the professorship in 2013 for family reasons. In 2017/2018 he was a substitute professor for international and societal politics at the University of Kassel.

As a publicist, Zelik v. a. for the Swiss weekly newspaper and for the young world . He also regularly produces radio features for WDR and Deutschlandfunk .

He was a co-founder of the Berlin organization For a Left Current . In June 2012, shortly after the Goettingen party congress of the Die Linke party , he became a member of this party. On May 29, 2016, he was elected to the party executive committee.

Awards

• 1998 scholarship for the Klagenfurt literature course at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition
• 1998 Walter Serner Prize for the short story Iserlohn Beats
• 1999 Author's grant from the ABP (Committee for Development-Related Education and Journalism in the Protestant Church)
• 1999 Promotion of youth literature by the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
• 1999 Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Berlin Academy of the Arts
• 2000 Scholarship to Schloss Wiepersdorf from the Berlin Senate
• 2001 Scriptwriting scholarship at the Master School of the Berlin-Brandenburg Film Board
• 2003 Residence grant from the Federal Cultural Foundation in Caracas / Venezuela
• 2005 Long List of the German Book Prize for the novel Berlin Conditions
• 2007 Funding from the German Translator Fund for the transmission of Joseba Sarrionandia's novel The Frozen Man from Basque (together with Petra Elser )

Fonts

• Eat and die anyway. Novel. 1997, ISBN 3-89401-279-X .
• with Dario Azzellini : Colombia - Big Business, State Terror and Insurrection Movement , Neuer ISP Verlag, ISBN 3-929-008-48-3 , 256 S., free download: PDF non-fiction book.
• La Negra. Novel. 2000, ISBN 3-89401-532-2 .
• Cross-border commuter Beatz. Stories. 2001, ISBN 3-922611-89-3 .
• Made in Venezuela. Notes on the 'Bolivarian Revolution'. Political diary. 2004, ISBN 3-935936-28-1 .
• Bastard - The Story of Journalist Lee. Novel. 2004, ISBN 3-935936-25-7 .
• Berlin conditions. Novel. 2005, ISBN 3-936738-18-1 .
• The armed friend. Novel. 2007, ISBN 978-3-936738-27-8 .
• The Colombian paramilitary forces. 'Government without a state' or terrorist forms of internal security. Non-fiction. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Munster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89691-766-9 (dissertation FU Berlin 2008, 352 pages).
• The Measurement of Utopia - Myths of Capitalism and the Coming Society. Raul Zelik in conversation with Elmar Altvater . Non-fiction. 2009, ISBN 978-3-936738-62-9 (A modified and expanded new edition was published by Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86505-729-7 ). download
• After capitalism? Perspectives of emancipation or: thinking differently about the project communism Non-fiction. 2011, ISBN 978-3-89965-449-3 .
• Otros Mundos Posibles? Crisis, gobiernos progresistas, alternativas de sociedad. Non-fiction. 2012, ISBN 978-958-761-136-6 . download
• The intruder. Novel. 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-12658-5 .
• With PODEMOS to the democratic revolution? Crisis and awakening in Spain. Non-fiction book 2015, ISBN 978-3-86505-733-4 .
• Paramilitarismo. Violencia y transformación social, política y económica en Colombia, non-fiction book 2015, ISBN 978-958-665-344-2 .
• In the multiverse of capital. Who rules how, who protests, who doesn't and why not? Non-fiction book 2016, ISBN 978-3-89965-694-7 .
• Continuidad y ruptura. Perspectivas de cambio en el Estado espanol, non-fiction book 2016, ISBN 978-84-945481-3-0 .
• La izquierda abertzale acertó , non-fiction book 2017, ISBN 978-84-17065-20-1 .
• Spain - A Political History of the Present , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86505-744-0 .
• The left in the Basque Country. An introduction , Mandelbaum, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85476-689-6 .
• We undead of capital. On political monsters and a green socialism , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-12746-9 .

Feature / radio play

• 2005: Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution , Feature (WDR)
• 2005: Eat and die anyway , radio play (WDR)
• 2007: The Basque Labyrinth , Feature (WDR)
• 2007: Language is our only home , literary feature (WDR)
• 2010: Colombia as a successful model. With organized crime for internal security , feature (WDR / DLF)
• 2010: Freed from traitors to the fatherland. The forgotten resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes , Feature (DLF)
• 2014: state of emergency? The Spanish Basque Country after the end of the ETA , Feature (DLF)
• 2014: Finally Peace in Colombia? Feature (WDR)
• 2014: Uprising against Augstein , feature (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
• 2017: Post-Capitalist Perspectives, Essay (Deutschlandfunk Essay and Discourse)
• 2017: The self-organization of those left behind. Change through empowerment, feature (Deutschlandfunk)
• 2017: Catalonia out of Spain , Feature (WDR)

Web links

• Literature by and about Raul Zelik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bi (bli) ography & homepage
• Pearl divers to the author R. Zelik
• Raul Zelik: More than just a trifle. How the writer and political scientist Raul Zelik unexpectedly came under the protection of the constitution

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1. ↑ The good terrorist ( Memento of May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). August 22, 2007.
2. ↑ Raul Zelik: Almost a declaration of love. In: new Germany . June 16, 2012.
3. ↑ neue-deutschland.de, accessed on May 29, 2016