Sonja M. Schultz

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Photo by son of a dog author Sonja M. Schultz (2019), photo: Maurus Knowles
Sonja M. Schultz (2019)

Sonja M. Schultz (born December 4, 1975 in Pinneberg ) is a German journalist , writer and spoken word performer . She lives in Berlin .

Life

After working, among other things, as an editorial assistant from 1997 onwards at Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg and as a freelance writer for the Pinneberger Tageblatt (1996–1998), Sonja M. Schultz studied theater studies / cultural communication and art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1998 to 2005 . She did her PhD in 2011 with Professor Dr. Michael Diers and Professor Dr. Horst Bredekamp in the Department of Art History, also at Humboldt University. The title of her dissertation was The Political Canvas. National Socialism and the Holocaust in Film, 1933–2010 .

In the work, the expanded version of which was published in 2012 by Bertz + Fischer Verlag under the title National Socialism in Film: From “Triumph des Willens” to “Inglourious Basterds” , she examined 400 international films dealing with representations of National Socialism , the Second World War and the Holocaust . The work was honored by the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt University with the Rudolf Arnheim Prize for young scientists, which was first awarded in 2012.

“It is the most complete representation of image politics in the aftermath of the Third Reich to date. Both conceptually and editorially, the requirements for a standard work are formulated. And rightly so, ”said Manuel Köppen in the H-Soz-Kult specialist forum .

Bernd Kleinhans wrote on the online portal Future Needs Remembrance: “The book by Sonja M. Schultz offers an overview - long necessary - of film production on National Socialism. Precisely because it provides a particularly wide range of material and is reluctant to interpret, the book is the ideal starting point for any in-depth study of the cinematic treatment of the Nazi era. "

job

From 1999 she worked as a screenwriter and director on short and documentary films and received further training in screenwriting, around 2007 at the Master School Screenwriting in Berlin. In 2003 she took part in the first Berlinale Talent Campus as a director and writer of independent film projects . Since 2006 she has been working primarily as a freelance journalist in the fields of film and media as well as culture of remembrance, including for the film website critic.de, curates film series, which were incredibly familiar in 2011 . Films about terror for the gallery C / O Berlin or 2015 Tales of War for the open air summer cinema at Checkpoint Charlie of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

In 2013 Sonja M. Schultz participated in the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University , Illinois . In 2014 she was one of the interviewees in the documentary Forbidden Films by the historian and author Felix Moeller .

In addition, Schultz teaches workshops and gives lectures in the field of film, for example in 2015 on the series End of War in 1945 in German post-war film in the Berlin documentation center Topography of Terror , in 2016 at the conference Von Types und Stereotypen. On the construction of the image of Jews in the film of the Central Council of Jews in Germany or in 2017 as part of the dialogue forum at the Mauthausen Memorial . In 2016 she was invited to speak at the Human Rights Film Festival Inconvenient Films in Vilnius , Lithuania.

plant

Since 2009 Sonja M. Schultz has appeared on alternative stages with spoken word texts and short stories. First publications from 2003. For the further development of her debut novel Hundesohn , published in August 2019 by Kampa Verlag in Zurich , she was a participant in the authors' workshop Prosa of the Berlin Literary Colloquium in 2017 . As part of one of the readings in the authors' workshop, Kampa Verlag approached her in 2018 with a contract offer for the publication of a novel. Son of a Dog was published at the end of August 2019.

The novel combines elements of a hardboiled thriller with the coming-of-age story by the protagonist Herbert Hawk in the Hamburg harbor and neighborhood. "A drama about inherited anger, guilt and the desire to leave your origins behind". “Sonja M. Schultz lets her rough protagonist stir up the past and the reader understand bit by bit how Hawk could become who he is. Having fled to the city far too early from his violent father and his dog breeding, Hawk first finds shelter and work in the harbor environment before the dream of a boisterous life draws him into drug smuggling. ”“ To leave these pasts behind and without Living the emotional baggage properly seems to be more difficult than ... expected ... "

Katrin Doerksen writes about this in the FAZ: “Sonja M. Schultz's debut… is characterized by empathy, by a deep understanding of her characters, for crazy existences and loneliness. ... Linking personal misery with German guilt, the resulting rebellion against everything bourgeois, how much our own origin shapes us and how much of it we pass on - none of these are new lines of thought. What is special is how Sonja M. Schultz stretches the red threads in Dogson between the turning points of the twentieth century, knotting them in the criminal underbelly of the big city - all of this under the robe of a dirty little, only apparently quickly digested neighborhood crime novel. "

In 2020 she received the 14th Harder Literature Prize for the short story Luke 5 , a kind of spin-off of the arsenal of puppets from the character "Zweimeter-Inge" .

Awards and grants

  • 2012 Rudolf Arnheim Prize for the dissertation The Political Canvas. National Socialism and the Holocaust in Film, 1933–2010.
  • 2017 Selection for the authors' workshop Prosa of the Literary Colloquium Berlin
  • 2020 14th Harder Literature Prize for the short story Luke 5

Academic publications (selection)

  • Hitler 2.0. The dictator on the internet. In: Rainer Rother, Karin Herbst-Meßlinger (Ed.): Representing Hitler. On the development and meaning of a cinematic figure . Edition text + kritik, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88377-946-1 , pp. 86-100.
  • National Socialism in the Film: From “Triumph of Will” to “Inglourious Basterds” . Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86505-314-5 .
  • Watch the past. Brown supermen and Nazi occultism in Outpost (2008). In: Jörg van Bebber (Ed.): Dawn of an Evil Millennium. Horror and culture in the new millennium . Büchner-Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-941310-22-3 , pp. 493-498.
  • Swan songs - new beginnings. The end of the war in the German feature film. In: Topography of Terror Foundation (ed.): Germany 1945 - The last months of the war . Exhibition catalog. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-941772-19-9 , pp. 229-239.
  • Dynamics of an anti-thriller - standstill and movement, sense and scruples in BLOW-UP. In: Michael Diers, Denis Grünemeier, Beat Wyss (eds.): Focus on Blow-Up. The presence of the pictures at Antonioni . Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86572-699-5 , pp. 47-79.
  • Between comedy, horror and cliché: “Train of Life” and the power of stereotypes in films from the Holocaust . In: Central Council of Jews in Germany (ed.): Perspektivenischer Bildung. Discourses - Insights - Positions , Volume II. Verlag Hentrich and Hentrich , Berlin / Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-95565-358-3 , pp. 478-489.

Literary publications

  • Protocol. In: Gerrit zur Hausen (Ed.): September 11, 2001. A literary retrospective . Edition Octopus, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-937312-07-2 , pp. 13-16.
  • Clothing. In: Christoph Buchwald, Nora Gomringer (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2015 . Dva, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04612-3 , p. 102.
  • Son of a Dog (excerpt from the novel). In: Thomas Geiger, Norbert Miller, Joachim Sartorius (eds.): Spritz - language in the technical age. No. 225, March 2018, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51174-6 , pp. 74-83.
  • Cat. In: Art & Lies e. V. (Ed.): PS - political writing # 4, comments on the literature business . Leipzig 2018, pp. 176–181.
  • Son of a dog . Kampa Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-311-10013-3 .
  • Hatch 5 . In: Wolfgang Mörth (Ed.): Miromente . Special edition for the 14th Harder Literature Prize, June 2020, unartproduktion, Dornbirn-Wien 2020, pp. 3–7.

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Debutants in autumn 2019. Sonja M. Schultz on "Hundesohn". In: buchreport.de. Harenberg Kommunikation, August 30, 2019, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Author biography on the website of Kampa Verlag
  3. ^ Gallus Frei-Tomic: Sonja M. Schultz "Hundesohn", Kampa. In: literaturblatt.ch. October 3, 2019, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sonja M. Schultz: The National Socialism in Film. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Constanze Haase: "Rudolf Arnheim Prize for Young Scientists" awarded for the first time. In: hu-berlin.de. May 9, 2012, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ S. Schultz: National Socialism in Film. In: hsozkult.de. October 16, 2012, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bernd Kleinhans: National Socialism in Film - by Sonja M. Schultz. In: Zukunft-brauch-erinnerung.de. The Future Needs Remembrance Working Group, July 7, 2014, accessed on September 30, 2019 .
  8. ^ Tales of War - Open Air Cinema at Checkpoint Charlie. In: bpb.de. June 2, 2016, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Prohibited Films. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Christopher Posch: 9th Dialog Forum Mauthausen: "Artistic processing of National Socialism". In: mauthausen-memorial.org. September 18, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  11. ^ Finissage of the authors' workshop: Prosa 2017. In: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  12. ↑ um: Sonja M. Schultz reads from her novel "Hundesohn". In: welt.de. September 18, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  13. ^ Martin Becker: Book market. Sonja M. Schultz: "Son of a dog". In: Deutschlandfunk. September 9, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Sonja M. Schultz "Son of a Dog". In: regioactive.de. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ kt: How our origins shape us. In: aachener-nachrichten.de. October 1, 2019, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Glamor of the Street. Literary explorations beyond the bourgeoisie. In: lcb.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Katrin Doerksen: How to measure the passage of time with a banana . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 232 , October 7, 2019, p. 10 .
  18. ↑ German author Schultz won the 14th Harder Literature Prize. In: volksblatt.at - Upper Austrian Volksblatt. April 20, 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Tabea Steiner (for the jury): Laudation for the Harder Literature Prize 2020: “Luke 5” by Sonja M. Schultz. In: literaturfestival.hard.at. culture hard. Market town of Hard, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Sonja M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kitty Hawk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinneberg