Roland Koch (writer)

Roland E. Koch (born November 2, 1959 in Hagen ) is a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Koch, recently also Roland E. Koch for better differentiation, studied literature at the University of Siegen and in Houston / Texas and did his doctorate on Heimito von Doderer . He has lived in Cologne since 1986 , and has been a freelance writer since 1991. In 1998/99 and 2001 he had lectureships at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . In the 2004/05 winter semester he taught creative writing at the University of Hildesheim , and since 2008 at the University of Siegen.

In his novel Things I Know About Him from 2011, he described the life of Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen from the narrative point of view of his fictional housekeeper.

Awards

• 1992: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann grant from the city of Cologne
• 1992: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 1992: Working grant from the Foundation for Cultural Exchange Amsterdam
• 1994: Residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 1995: Bettina von Arnim Prize
• 1996: Residence grant in the Artists Village Schöppingen Foundation
• 1997: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1998: Working grant from the Foundation for Cultural Exchange Amsterdam
• 1999: Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
• 1999: Ridge Walk Prize
• 2000: Working grant from the Art and Culture Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2000: Scholarship from the Else Heiliger Fund
• 2003: Minden city clerk
• 2003: Paris Metropolitan Writer Scholarship
• 2010: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2015/16: Work sample grant from the NRW Culture Secretariat

Works

• The visualization of happiness, studies on Heimito von Doderer's work , Tübingen 1989
• The Daily Conquest , Novel, 1991, ISBN 3-442-41441-5
• Bright nights , short stories, 1995, ISBN 3-462-02396-9
• The Brown Girl , Novel, 1998, ISBN 3-426-61178-3
• Couples , Novel, 2000, ISBN 3-462-02925-8
• The wild east. Latest German literature , anthology, 2002, ISBN 3-596-15658-0
• Ins leise Zimmer , Roman, 2003 ISBN 3-462-03312-3
• I Thought of the Many Murders , Novel, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941037-16-8
• Under a strange sky , novel. Dittrich, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-937717-46-3 .
• Things I know about him , Roman. Dittrich, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-937717-69-2 .
• Secret powers . Dittrich, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-943941-09-8 .

• Avenue street . 12 colors, Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-943182-07-1

• Radio play Alleestraße , directed by Fabian von Freier , with: Ulrich Noethen, Production DLF 2016, length 60 ', first broadcast April 16, 2016.
• The reflection of the moon, novel, 2016.
• Radio play prevention care, directed by Thomas Leutzbach, with Gustav Peter Wöhler, Wiebke Puls, Tilo Nest, April Haller. Production WDR 2020, first broadcast March 12, 2020.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roland Koch at perlentaucher.de , accessed on January 9, 2013
• Roland Koch at NRW Literatur im Netz , accessed on January 9, 2013
• "The culture of fun has become quite widespread in Cologne," GI interview with Koch about his relationship with Cologne

supporting documents

1. ^ Author profile Roland E. Koch , Dittrich-Verlag, accessed April 9, 2016
2. ↑ Biographical information on Roland E. Koch , Kulturbüro NRW, accessed April 9, 2016
3. ↑ [http / www.wa.de / culture / roland-kochs-roman-ueber-kardinal-galen-dinge-weiss-1385822.html Roland E. Koch's novel about Cardinal von Galen: "Things I know about him" ], Review on wa.de August 31, 2011, accessed April 9, 2016
4. ↑ DLF Ursendung Alleestraße , accessed on April 9, 2016.