Thomas Palzer

Thomas Palzer on a portrait photo 2013

Thomas Palzer (born April 10, 1956 in Mainz ) is a German author , journalist , essayist , writer , filmmaker and radio broadcaster, including his own texts.

Life

Thomas Palzer studied philosophy and German at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , at the University of Vienna and in Bayreuth. He began his literary work in 1979 as co-editor of the magazine Mode und Desperation (1978 to 1986). In the mid-1980s, he began to work as a journalist at Zündfunk , the youth radio in the Bavarian radio broadcasting company . It was here that his own contributions to the literary program Pop Sunday were broadcast, which he read himself. Philosophizing in regular columns , he contributed to the analysis of the zeitgeist .

From 1983 to 1989 he co-organized the reading series Sage & Schreibe together with Franz Dobler and Lorenz Schröter (Lorenz Lorenz).

With Palzer's first television reports on the subject of culture and zeitgeist, viewers became known in 1990 in the broadcast Capriccio of the Bavarian radio and in the ARD cultural report . Palzer is especially the speaker of the texts he wrote himself in radio broadcasts .

In the 2018/19 winter semester he taught essays at the Leipzig Institute for Literature .

In addition to his literary work, Palzer has been publishing numerous features on cultural topics since the 1980s . He lives and works in Leipzig .

1993: 1st Prize from LiteraVision for the BR magazine article "Wittgenstein"
2002: 1st Prize from LiteraVision for the SWR magazine article "Karl Ignaz Hennetmair"
2005: Tukan Prize of the City of Munich
2007: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis
2009: Grant Homines Urbani, Villa Decius, Krakow
2020: Working grant in the field of literature from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

1995: Journal intime, LP . Radio play. Director: Karl Bruckmaier . (BR ). This resulted in: Afternoon of a Faun , with Stefan Wood (music) and James Scannell. CD, Trikont
2010: Thomas is now your girlfriend . Feature. Director: Thomas Wolfertz (WDR)
2011: only until now! Spam Poetry . Radio play, with David Moufang , alias Move D, SAE audio engineer , composer and sound artist . WDR 3
2011: critical mass. The revolt of the many . Feature. Director: Nikolai von Koslowski (MDR)
2014: Dust - Melancholy of Matter. Essay and Discourse (Deutschlandfunk)
2015: the last man. Emergency plan for the end of the world . Feature, self-directed (BR)
2016: First Contact. What if the earth gets a visit . Feature. Director: Martin Heindel (BR)
2017: Patina - the future of finitude . Essay and Discourse (Deutschlandfunk)
2018: "I have to make a revolution." Easter walk with Gretchen Dutschke. Feature. Director: Rainer Schaller (BR)
2019: The Inside of Reality - Between Fact and Fiction . Essay and Discourse (Deutschlandfunk)
2020: Rainald Goetz - Why is he silent . Feature. Own direction (BR)
2020: More than just a nuisance. About the usefulness of metaphysics for life. Essay and Discourse (Deutschlandfunk)

Suspenders. News from the world of yesterday . Weißer Stein, Greiz 1994, ISBN 3-928681-26-5 .
Bangs . 2nd Edition. Eisenhut, Hagen 2011, ISBN 978-3-942090-14-8 .
Secret Service . Greiz 1995, ISBN 3-933510-12-0 .
From here nudism allowed . CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-933510-86-4 .
Camping . belleville, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-933510-85-6 .
Ruin . Blumenbar, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-936738-17-3 .
Spam Poetry . Mikrotext, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-944543-05-5 .
The coming book , Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-179-5 .
Nightward . ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86913-412-3 .
Comparative anatomy. A story of love . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-557-9 .
The time that remains . Detective novel. Tropen, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-608-50415-6 .

1993 : Fashion & Despair . Arte
2001: German résumés: Joseph Beuys - Messiah in felt . SWR / SFB / ORB
2002: German CVs: Martin Heidegger . SWR / SFB / ORB
2003: Reading Russia . Part 1, 2 and 3. Zero Film / S. Fischer Foundation / SWR
2003: History of the bank robbery . Film tank / Arte
2005: Hubert Fichte: The Black Angel . SWR / S. Fischer Foundation
2006 : How to Make Nobel Prize Winners in Literature. Report from the secret society . SWR / Megaherz
2009: How do you become a customer? Arte / SWR
2010 : Except for the blood. Story of the martyr . Script and direction (together with Thomas Tielsch). Arte / film tank

Literature by and about Thomas Palzer in the catalog of the German National Library and Thomas Palzer in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )

^ Lecturers and teachers - German Literature Institute Leipzig. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b State Capital Munich Editor: LiteraVision. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .