Thomas Kraft (writer)

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Thomas Kraft

Thomas Kraft (born March 6, 1959 in Bamberg ) is a German writer , literary critic and cultural manager .

Life

Thomas Kraft studied modern German literature, theater studies and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. During his studies he worked as a literary critic for several German and Swiss daily and weekly newspapers as well as for the radio and gained experience as an employee at theater festivals, in publishing houses and bookshops. He was involved in exhibition and media projects and worked on a lexicon project on contemporary German-language literature, which he took over as editor a few years later.

After completing his studies with a doctorate in 1993 and the 6th International Spring Book Week under the motto " Austria literary / Vienna literally" (1995), Thomas Kraft switched to the team at the newly founded Munich Literature House in 1996 as program manager.

From 2000 he took over the programming of the Munich book show . In the same year he curated the exhibition “50 Years of Suhrkamp Verlag ”, and in 2002 the literature program for the Styrian Autumn in Graz. In his work as a literary mediator, he was and is a member of several juries, held several teaching assignments, acted as chairman of the Writers' Association in Bavaria (VS in ver.di) from 2005 to 2015 and organizes literary festivals and series. For several years he was also the program manager of a Munich publishing house, since 2013 he has been running an event agency, which he sees as a “mobile literature house”.

In the meantime he has published biographies and monographs on German-language literature as well as essayistic anthologies. Several books on the Franconian cultural landscape have also been published, as well as several anthologies on rock music from the seventies and eighties. As a literary author, Kraft has made an appearance with a novel, short stories and poems.

Thomas Kraft is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS in ver.di) and the German PEN Center .

Works

Single track

  • Desertion and war neurosis. Counter-images to the ideology of the struggle in German-language literature after the Second World War. Dissertation . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1994.
  • with Roman Hocke: Michael Ende and his fantastic world . Weitbrecht Verlag, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Robert Musil: The man without qualities. Piper Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • Black on white. Why German-language literature is better than its reputation. An advertising leaflet. Kookbooks, Idstein 2005.
  • with Katrin Hillgruber: Munich literary. 40 years of the Tukan Prize. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2005.
  • Between bratwurst and baroque. Franconian specialties. Picus, Vienna 2006.
  • with Klaus Gasseleder: walks through the Franconia of writers and artists. Arche, Hamburg 2008.
  • Jacob Wassermann. Biography. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2008.
  • Poetry. A crash course. Dumont, Cologne 2009.
  • Francs. A local lore. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2009.
  • All camouflage. Novel. MaroVerlag, Augsburg 2013.
  • Cohen. A homage. MaroVerlag, Augsburg 2014.
  • Tulsa tomatoes. Stories. MaroVerlag, Augsburg 2015.
  • Jukebox. Poems. FuguVerlag, Herrsching 2016.
  • gangsters of love. Poems. Illustrations by Thommie Bayer, Richard Bierl, Christine Heinisch, Wolfgang Heinzel, Mike Keilbach, Gerd Lieder. Arne Rautenberg, Christine Reff-Richter, Tom Vord, Ute Wolff, Feridun Zaimoglu. Private printing. Herrsching 2019

Editorships

  • Edgar Hilsenrath - Telling the Untoldable. Piper Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • Oskar Maria Graf: I float rocked by things and live sore. Selected poems. List Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • Ripped open. On the literature of the 90s. Piper Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • Panorama of German literature. Contemporary literature 1945–2000. CD-ROM. Cornelsen Verlag / Institute for Film and Image, Berlin 2002.
  • Lexicon of German-language literature. Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich 2003, as CD-ROM, United Soft Media, Munich 2005.
  • Herrsching at the time of Christian Morgenstern. Gellius Verlag, Herrsching 2006.
  • Beat Stories. Blumenbar Verlag, Munich 2008.
  • Literature builds bridges. Host country Canada. Munich 2008 (together with cultural department of the city of Munich)
  • Rock stories. LangenMüller, Munich 2009.
  • Beatlemania. LangenMüller, Munich 2010.
  • with Norbert Niemann: Don't feel like going down. Against a trivialization of society. LangenMüller, Munich 2010.
  • with Alexander Müller and Arne Rautenberg: Punk Stories. LangenMüller, Munich 2011.
  • Rock lyric. With photographs by Helmut Ölschlegel. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2011.
  • The beat goes on. LangenMüller, Munich 2013.

Exhibitions

  • Oskar Maria Graf - a Bavarian writer in American exile. America House, Munich 1987.
  • Michael Ende and his fantastic world. Literaturhaus, Munich 1997 (together with Volker Kinnius).
  • Paul Wühr - Magus in the south. Literaturhaus, Munich 1997 (together with Thomas Betz)
  • 50 years of Suhrkamp Verlag. Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main 2000 / Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe 2001.
  • Herrsching at the time of Christian Morgenstern. Kurparkschlösschen, Herrsching 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, literary critic and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg