Thomas Brussig

Thomas Brussig (2015)

Thomas Brussig (born December 19, 1964 in East Berlin ) is a German writer and screenwriter .

Life

Thomas Brussig spent his childhood in the eastern part of Berlin. After attending school for ten years, he completed vocational training as a construction worker, which he completed in 1984. This was followed by basic military service in the VP riot police . Until 1990 he worked in various jobs. In 1990 he began studying sociology at the Free University of Berlin and then moved to the “Konrad Wolf” film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1993 , where he graduated in 2000 as a graduate film and television dramaturge.

Brussig debuted as a novelist in 1991 with watercolors. He had his breakthrough in 1995 with the reversible novel Heroes Like Us. In his novels , Brussig satirically processed events in the East of that time in a wide variety of ways. Also playing in the East, but transferable to the whole of Germany, is his novel Die Verwandelte , in which he satirically shows the consequences that arise from two young people turning into raccoons.

Brussig's books have so far been translated into 28 languages. He has received a number of awards and prizes, is a member of various juries, and is also a founding member of the Lübeck “Group 05” . In the summer semester of 2012 he was the holder of the poetics lectureship at the University of Koblenz-Landau . In 2005, Thomas Brussig was the initiator of the German national football team of writers and is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Brussig lives as a freelance writer and screenwriter with his wife and children in Berlin and Mecklenburg.

Works

Thomas Brussig at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

Fiction

• Watercolors. (first under the pseudonym Cordt Berneburger ). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-351-01871-1 .
• Heroes like us . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-353-01037-8 .
• At the shorter end of Sonnenallee . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-353-01168-4 .
• Live up to men. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15417-0 .
• How it shines . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-009580-4 .
• Berlin orgy. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-492-05037-9 .
• Referee done. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2007, ISBN 3-7017-1481-9 .
• The worm on the tower with Kitty Kahane (co-author). Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus, Frankfurt a. M. 2011, ISBN 3-86921-061-3 .
• There's no such thing in any Russian film . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002298-1 .
• Best intentions . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397243-6 .
• The transformed . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3605-6

Film templates and scripts (selection)

• Brussig's novel Am Shorter End of Sonnenallee was filmed by Leander Haußmann under the title Sonnenallee and was released in 1999.
• His novel Helden wie wir was filmed by Sebastian Peterson and was released in 1999 under the title Heroes Like Us .
• Thomas Brussig wrote the script for Leander Haußmann's film NVA, which was released in cinemas in 2005 .
• Together with Edgar Reitz he wrote the book for the ARD series Heimat 3 - Chronicle of a turning point.

Stage (selection)

• The stage version of his novel Helden wie wir premiered in 1996 in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin (directed by Peter Dehler ).
• In 2001 the monologue Leben bis Männer was premiered in the same theater (directed by Peter Ensikat ).
• Brussig wrote the libretto for the musical Hinterm Horizont , which is based on the songs of Udo Lindenberg and ran from 2011 to summer 2016 in the Stage Theater on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (directed by Ulrich Waller).

Reviews

Anja Maier wrote about that in no Russian film in the taz :

"[...] the whole thing reads really well. Brussig lies intelligently, he can do it: be mean. And he values ​​the absurd. [...] Something like that - as a permanent jumping on the spot - one can imagine the last years of the GDR. Brussig gave her a few more years. "

Awards (selection)

• 1999: German Screenplay Prize for Sonnenallee (with Leander Haußmann)
• 2000: Hans Fallada Prize from the city of Neumünster
• 2000: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)
• 2002: New York scholarship from the German Literature Fund and the German House of NYU
• 2003: Residence grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 2005: Carl Zuckmayer Medal
• 2012: Writer in residence in Rio de Janeiro
• 2012: German Comedy Prize for Stankowski's millions

Web links

Commons : Thomas Brussig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Thomas Brussig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Thomas Brussig
• Short biography and reviews of works by Thomas Brussig at perlentaucher.de
• Thomas Brussig German Academy for Football Culture
• Thomas Brussig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
• Information on Thomas Brussig - Internet portal for children's and youth literature from the University of Bremen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ thomasbrussig.de ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Barbara Felsmann: weekly mail. No. 39 of September 21, 1995. pp. 40-41. thomasbrussig.de ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Anja Maier : Gray-colored science fiction . In: taz.de . May 3, 2015.