Steven Uhly

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Steven Uhly (born June 6, 1964 in Cologne ) is a German writer and translator.

Steven Uhly: TUKAN Prize 2011

Life

Steven Uhly's mother is German, his father from Bengal . He grew up with his mother and his Spanish stepfather. After graduating from high school in Cologne in 1983, Uhly trained as an interpreter and translator in Valencia . He then studied German and Spanish and Portuguese literature and language in Cologne , Bonn and Lisbon . Uhly received a doctoral grant from the German National Academic Foundation . The title of his dissertation was: Multipersonality as Poetics .

On behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the author then went to Belém in Brazil , where he headed the German Institute of the Federal University of Pará for two years . This was followed by two and a half years with a guest professorship in Porto Alegre . He then took on a teaching position at the Romance Studies Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Steven Uhly now lives with his family in Munich . He translates poetry and prose from Spanish, Portuguese and English. Together with his wife Ricarda Solms, he founded Münchner Frühling Verlag in 2007 .

Uhly's first novel, My Life in Aspik , received a lot of media attention. The literary critic Florian Illies praised the novel in ZEIT on September 7, 2010 as a "brilliant debut". Uhly's second novel, Adams Fuge , suddenly became topical in November 2011 when the terrorist activities of the right-wing NSU ( National Socialist Underground ) made it clear that the novel's plot was the systematic murder of Turks and other foreigners in Germany, the dubious role of the informants of the protection of the constitution and the confusion of the right-wing scene (right-wing people dress up like left-wing people) aptly anticipates. In an Internet Shitstorm Uhly came when he was in an article for the ZDF telecast aspects , among others, said he had to move too much fear in East Germany free because he does not look German.

With Glückskind , his third novel, Uhly surprisingly achieved a bestseller, although the press largely ignored this novel. In autumn 2012, the director Michael Verhoeven became aware of the book and convinced the SWR that it was suitable for filming. Filming began in early April 2014, and production of the film was completed in July 2014. On October 7th, 2014 Glückskind was premiered as the opening film of the new Potsdam International Film Festival in the presence of Michael Verhoeven, the main actor Herbert Knaup , the actors Naomi Krauss , Mohammed Ali Behbudi and the author, Steven Uhly. Uhly said he was very satisfied with this film version. Glückskind premiered on ARTE on November 22, 2014, and Das Erste showed it on November 26, 2014 .

A theater adaptation of Glückskind was premiered at the Rostock Volkstheater on November 26, 2014 under the direction of Nicole Oder and dramaturgy by Martin Stefke .

Uhly's fourth novel, Kingdom of Twilight (Fall 2014), deals with the various flows of refugees at the end of the Second World War. The focus is on the so-called displaced persons , people who have lost their homeland and the opportunity to return to their countries of origin as a result of the fait accompli. This novel is Uhly's first epic story, it spans three generations and connects the fate of three families.

In autumn 2015, Uhly published a selection of almost a hundred poems from thirty years under the title Diary , the first from 1981, when the author was 16 years old, and the last from July 2015.

In September 2016 the sequel to "Glückskind" appeared with the novel "Marie". The author starts six and a half years later and focuses primarily on the mother, who now lives alone again with her three children - eleven-year-old Frido, ten-year-old Mira and the 'lucky child' Chiara, who goes to first grade - lives alone and more poorly than makes ends meet. In contrast to "Glückskind", the critic z. Some say fairytale traits, "Marie" develops with the consistency of a classic drama that is heading for a tragic climax. In the end, Uhly grants the reader a hopeful swimmer, but he refuses the illusion of stable happiness.

In January 2017 the English edition of "Kingdom of Twilight" was published by MacLehose Press in London under the title "Kingdom Of Twilight". The translation was done by Jamie Bulloch. Three days after its publication, The Times named Uhly's novel "book of the month". The reviewer, Antonia Senior, described "Kingdom Of Twilight" as "powerful and original".

In autumn 2017, the French book edition of the Kingdom of Twilight was published by Presses de la Cité (Paris) under the title Le royaume du crépuscule . In the radio play editor and directed by Leonhard Koppelmann which produced SWR 2017 eponymous two-part radio play version of Kingdom dusk .

In autumn 2018, Uhly's sixth novel was published under the title The blind gods . The novel ties in with the satirical narrative style of his first two novels. In the literature supplement to the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 6, 2018, Andreas Platthaus described him as a “psychological thriller” and wrote: “He is massively unsettling. That is his subject. To understand how he can do this means to cope better with uncertainty. There is no more interesting task in contemporary literature. "

Works

Novels
Short stories
  • Back , July 2015 in: Signatures - Forum for Autonomous Poetry [1]
  • New Year's Eve , August 2015 in: Signatures - Forum for Autonomous Poetry [2]
Poetry
  • Philosophia , July 2015 in: Signatures - Forum for Autonomous Poetry [3]
  • Diary. Poems 1981–2015 , Secession Verlag für Literatur, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-905951-71-4 .
Essays
  • The Brazilian poetry at the time of the dictatorship , September 2013 in: "Signatures - Forum for Autonomous Poetry Link
  • Poetry and Society , August 2014, in: "Signatures - Forum for Autonomous Poetry" Link
Translations
  • Paulo Fonteles : When death approaches, just a breath , translated from Portuguese and provided with an essay by Steven Uhly, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2006
  • Jasimuddin : You don't believe me? Stories from Bengal , translated from English and provided with an essay by Steven Uhly, Münchner Frühling Verlag 2009
  • Disappeared. Gustavo Germano's photo project 'ausencias' with texts on the dictatorship in Argentina 1976–1983 , translated from Spanish by Ricarda Solms and Steven Uhly, Münchner Frühling Verlag 2010
  • Juan Gómez Bárcena : The Heaven of Lima , novel, translated from Spanish by Steven Uhly, Secession Verlag für Literatur 2016, ISBN 978-3-905951-95-0 .
Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Victim like him? Author Steven Uhly was named Chief Prosecutor of the East , Die Zeit dated December 16, 2011, accessed January 21, 2015
  2. How Jena became the city of fear on ZDF. Thüringer Allgemeine , November 29, 2011, accessed on August 30, 2012 .
  3. Video aspects: Extreme readiness to use violence (November 18, 2011)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on August 30, 2012. (offline)
  4. ↑ Adaptation of the novel Glückskind, De 2014, 89 min.
  5. World premiere of the play Glückskind based on the novel by Steven Uhly ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rostock Volkstheater @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / volkstheater-rostock.de
  6. When peace was still warlike , review of the Kingdom of Twilight by Karl-Markus Gauss in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 18, 2015, accessed January 21, 2015
  7. Guilt and Silence , Review of the Kingdom of Twilight by Carsten Hueck in Deutschlandradio Kultur on September 13, 2014, accessed January 21, 2015
  8. Kingdom of Dawn | Part 1/2: Der Schlächter von Turck , SWR April 16, 2019, accessed April 22, 2019
  9. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 6, 2018, literature, p. L9.
  10. Sigrid Brinkmann: The idea of ​​uniqueness as pure illusion , review of The Blind Gods in Deutschlandfunk Kultur September 10, 2018, accessed April 22, 2019