Stephan Porombka

Stephan Porombka (2015)

Stephan Porombka (* 1967 in Salzgitter ) is an author and professor for text theory and text design at the UdK Berlin .

Life

Porombka studied German , political science and theater studies (among others with Erhard Schütz , Hans-Jürgen Schings and Klaus Laermann ) at the Free University of Berlin . In 1999 he received his doctorate with a thesis on hypertext . He received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . After working as a research assistant in the derealization and digitization project at the Free University of Berlin and as a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin , he was transferred to the junior professorship for literary studies and cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim in 2003, which was transferred to a university professorship for literature and cultural journalism in 2007 . Together with the writer Hanns-Josef Ortheil , he directed the course “ Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism ”. From 2007 to 2011 Porombka was Vice President of the University of Hildesheim, first for teaching, then for research. Since 2013 he has been Professor of Text Theory and Text Design at the UdK Berlin . His main research interests are literature and journalism , non-fiction research, applied literary studies , literary creativity and the next writing and writing cultures. He has been a columnist for the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT since January 2015 .

Works (selection)

Monographs

• Writing under power. Experimenting with Twitter, blogs, Facebook & Co. Duden, Mannheim / Zurich c. 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-74921-8 . ( Creative writing series , edited by Hanns-Josef Ortheil .)
• Meyer's atlas of inspiring places: Manhattan, the South Pacific or the bathtub. A journey of discovery (with Wiebke Porombka and Steffen Hendel) . Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-07172-2 .
• Felix Krull's heirs. On the history of imposture in the 20th century (paperback) . Blumenkamp, ​​Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810685-4-2 .
• Write reviews. A training book . UVK-Verl.-Ges., Konstanz 2006, ISBN 978-3-8252-2776-0 .
• Telling the modern. A workshop talk with Silvio Vietta . Glück & Schiller Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-938404-08-9 .
• Write about theater. Workshop discussions with theater critics . Glück and Schiller, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-938404-06-X .
• Felix Krull's heirs. On the history of imposture in the 20th century . Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-934189-50-4 .
• Hypertext . To criticize a digital myth . Fink, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3573-1 .

Editions and co-editions (selection)

• Saint Klaus . Ed. Tenant house, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-941392-15-1 .
• Status reports. Write in Facebook . Blumenkamp, ​​Salzhemmendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810685-9-7 .
• 1000 sentences to read before you die; 1000 places that you have to see before you die - in Hildesheim . Ed. Tenant house, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-941392-10-6 .
• The ambiguity of the conversation. Approaches to Popular Culture . von Halem, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-938258-95-8 .
• Poetics of the factual: workshop discussions with non-fiction authors . Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0047-9 .
• 55 classics of cultural journalism . B & S Siebenhaar, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936962-62-8 .
• Have a nice drink in Hildesheim . Ed. Tenant house, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-941392-00-7 .
• Phoenix in the ashes. To the downfall of a production collective . Glück & Schiller, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-938404-17-1 .
• Theory and Practice of the Arts . Francke, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8262-7 .
• Political arts . Francke, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7720-8196-5 .
• lit.lifestyle . Glück & Schiller Verlag, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-938404-10-2 .
• Read first. Then write: 22 authors and their teachers . Luchterhand-Literaturverl., Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-62115-9 .
• Tachograph . Glück & Schiller Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-938404-07-8 .
• Bad places. Sites of National Socialist self-expression - today . List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-548-60649-1 .
• Bad places. Sites of National Socialist self-expression - today . Claassen, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-546-00380-2 .
• The wrong prince. The biography of the con man Harry Domela . Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-934189-49-0 .
• Phenomena of derealization . Passagen-Verl., Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85165-362-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Porombka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Stephan Porombka at perlentaucher.de
• "As a researcher, I also observe myself" - Interview with Peter Bieg in ZEIT on March 18, 2015

research

• Stephan Porombka on the website of the UdK Berlin.
• Stephan Porombka on the website of the University of Hildesheim , there numerous publications as downloads (status: approx. 2009).
• Stephan Porombka: How to write a (damn good) non-fiction book (PDF; 357 kB) from the series worksheets for non-fiction research .