Simon Urban

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Simon Urban (* 1975 in Hagen ) is a German writer , copywriter and journalist .

life and work

Urban studied German in Münster , at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and trained at the Hamburg Texterschmiede . He worked for the advertising agencies Scholz & Friends , Grabarz & Partner and Jung von Matt , and has been a freelance copywriter since 2013. Urban has received numerous awards for his work as a copywriter, including the Grand Prix and gold at the Clio Awards for Doppelherz's “literary commercial break”, during which he read poems about dietary supplements. In 2015 he wrote the Edeka clip #heimkommen for the Jung von Matt agency , which caused a sensation worldwide, is one of the most successful German virals with more than 66 million clicks and also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions . He also wrote commercials with Anke Engelke , Antoine Monot Jr. , Steffen Henssler and Sven Hannawald .

As a freelance journalist, Simon Urban worked for Neon and Zeit Online, among others .

In 2011 Urban’s debut novel Plan D was published , in which the GDR never went under and which attracted widespread attention. "You read the first page of Simon Urban 's novel Plan D and you know: this is a text with muscles," says author Juli Zeh . The time came to the conclusion that Plan D had a “thrust of literary imagination” and “ingenious ingenuity” that should delight every reader. Jobst-Ulrich Brand wrote on Focus Online that Urban succeeded in "the rare combination of a thoroughly exciting, very comical thriller that also has to offer some political insight into the reality of the Federal Republic of Germany ." Jens Dirksen said in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung that he was doing Plan D “in its political and literary intensity” it is “a debut that - right up to the emblematic book cover - should be placed alongside the tin drum of Günter Grass ”. The novel has been translated into 11 languages ​​so far.

In 2014 his second novel “Gondwana” was published about a religious dictatorship in which all the rules of all religions apply to all of humanity. The novel tells the story in parts not in prose, but with comic panels. "And when the ideological tidying up and clearing away, that it is a pleasure, then Simon Urban also crosses the boundaries of the language", summarized Jörg Magenau in Deutschlandradio Kultur . Stephanie Bremerich came to the conclusion: "In his new novel, Simon Urban juggles genre clichés in a cheerfully brazen way and does away with male omnipotence fantasies and religious fanaticism."

On behalf of SWR , Simon Urban wrote the short story "Nachspiel", which appeared in the Suhrkamp anthology "2029 - Tales of Tomorrow" in 2019 and was filmed by SWR and NDR under the title "Exit". The film is scheduled to run on ARD in winter 2020.

Simon Urban lives in Hamburg and Techau in East Holstein.

Awards

  • 2003 Erker Prize
  • 2005 Ruhr Literature Prize (sponsorship prize)
  • 2006 Limburg Prize from the City of Bad Dürkheim
  • 2009 Clio Awards Grand Prix and Gold for the first live literary commercial break
  • 2012 Stuttgart Crime Prize for Plan D

Works

literature

  • Peter Paul Schwarz: “Take and read” - the 'East German' as a reception phenomenon. In: Viviane Chilese, Matteo Galli (Ed.): Does the sun rise in the east? Trends in recent East German literature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5395-5 , pp. 29–45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SIMON URBAN. Retrieved August 2, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ - The Doppelherz Poem Reading. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Scholz & Friends: Literary commercial break on YouTube , February 5, 2009, accessed on August 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ EDEKA | Jung von Matt | Home For Christmas | WE LOVE AD. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Cannes Lions: Jung von Matt takes Grand Prix with #Heimkommen. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ ADVERTISING. Retrieved August 2, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ JOURNALISM. Retrieved August 2, 2020 (American English).
  8. ^ Simon Urban: Plan D - Schöffling & Co. Verlag. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  9. ^ Simon Urban: Plan D - Schöffling & Co. Verlag. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Simon Urban: Gondwana - Schöffling & Co. Verlag. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Brandt, Stefan 1976-, Granderath, Christian 1959-, Hattendorf, Manfred 1963-, Popp, Reinhold 1949-: 2029 - stories of tomorrow / Stefan Brandt / Christian Granderath, Manfred Hattendorf (eds.); with an afterword by Reinhold Popp . First edition, original edition. Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-47029-9 .
  12. ↑ Exit. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen