Stephan Thome

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Stephan Thome (2018)

Stephan Thome (born July 23, 1972 in Biedenkopf ; real name Stephan Schmidt ) is a German philosopher and writer . He became famous in 2009 with his successful debut novel Grenzgang .

Life

Stephan Thome passed the Abitur at the Lahntal School in Biedenkopf. After doing community service in a social psychiatric institution in Marburg, Thome studied philosophy , religious studies and sinology at the Free University of Berlin . Travels took him to China , Taiwan and Japan, among others . In 2004 he completed his studies at the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Challenge of the Stranger , which was published in German bookshops a year later under the title The Challenge of the Stranger: Intercultural Hermeneutics and Confucian Thinking under his maiden name Stephan Schmidt . The Scientific Book Society provided him with a doctoral scholarship for this purpose.

From 2005 to mid-2011, Thome lived in Taipei , where he was a DFG scholarship holder at the Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica . He conducted research on Confucian philosophy of the 20th century and translated, among other things, Chun-chieh Huang's work Confucianism: Continuity and Development into German.

In 2009, Thome made his highly regarded debut as a novelist with Grenzgang . The title of the work is the festival of the same name in Thome's hometown of Biedenkopf, which is depicted in the novel as "Bergenstadt". In the rhythm of the border crossing festival, which takes place every seven years, Thome follows his two main characters, a divorced housewife and mother and a high school teacher, whose life plans prove to be unsustainable.

The German trade press unanimously praised the border crossing . Literary critic Volker Hage praised the author as a “master of the art of dialogue” and the book as a “mature debut”, something that has not been seen in German literature for a long time. Tilman Krause described Thome as a “great master of emotional nuances”. Sandra Kegel was impressed by the realistic portrayal of the novel with a pessimistic tone: "[...] it is amazing how precisely he [Thome] not only captures the Upper Hessian landscape and the uniqueness of its people, but also the special idiom of the North Hesse flows in, ”said Kegel. The film rights to the novel were acquired by WDR , on whose behalf the TV production company Teamworx filmed the novel with Claudia Michelsen and Lars Eidinger in the leading roles; mainly shot at the location in Biedenkopf. Brigitte Maria Bertele's film premiered on November 27, 2013 in prime time and was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2014.

His second fiction work, a social novel with the title Centrifugal Force , was published in September 2012. In September 2012, centrifugal forces were on the shortlist of the German Book Prize . His novel Gegenenspiel was published in January 2015 . It is again about the story of a couple drifting apart, a German middle-class drama, linguistically powerful and confident, with a great sense for nuances. Only this time, instead of the man's point of view, his wife's perspective comes up. The fourth novel God of the Barbarians , published in September 2018, was again shortlisted for the German Book Prize.

To prepare for and work on his works, Thome maintains changing homes; so z. B. in addition to Germany recently also Lisbon and again Taipei.

Works

Awards

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Kaminski, Astrid: “In search of partial success” . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 8, 2009, issue 234, p. 36
  2. ↑ a b cf. Busse, Mark-Christian from: Page no longer available , search in web archives: "20 titles for the final: We are looking for the best novel of the year" at hna.de , August 21, 2009 (accessed on September 17, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hna.de
  3. ^ Stephan Thome. In: Suhrkamp.de . Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Volker Hage: Every seven years . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 2009, p. 136 ( online - August 17, 2009 ).
  5. ↑ cf. “Book presentation” ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at transcript-verlag.de (accessed on October 18, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transcript-verlag.de
  6. ↑ cf. Krause, Tilman: "Give the Stephan Thome Book Prize" . In: Die Welt No. 219 of September 19, 2009 ("Literary World"), p. 29 (verified here by the online version, accessed on November 7, 2012)
  7. ↑ Sandra Kegel: Be careful, the province is everywhere. In: FAZ.NET . August 28, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Badouin, Uwe: " Grenzgang soon on the screen"; Oberhessische Presse of August 22, 2012 (accessed on November 7, 2012)
  9. ↑ Bader, Mareike: “The last flap falls for the border crossing ”; Oberhessische Presse of October 18, 2012 (accessed on November 7, 2012)
  10. ↑ Book award candidate Thome: When the Bonn sun sinks into the sea in the west Der Spiegel September 13, 2012
  11. ^ Counterplay at Suhrkamp
  12. ↑ Dietmar Jacobsen: Nothing worse threatens than everyday life , review on literaturkritik.de from February 16, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019
  13. ↑ Lenz, Guntram: "A woman under influence strikes back"; Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung / Dill-Post from March 29, 2015 (accessed on March 30, 2015)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mittelhessen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Thome, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Stephan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Biedenkopf , Hesse