Thomas Podhostnik

Thomas Podhostnik (2017)

Thomas Podhostnik (born September 7, 1972 in Radolfzell on Lake Constance ) is a German writer .

Life

Thomas Podhostnik was born in 1972 in Radolfzell on Lake Constance as the son of Yugoslav guest workers . He did an apprenticeship as a freight forwarder , then trained as an assistant director at the Teatro Nacional de Cuba . He studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig.

Thomas Podhostnik writes prose and experimental prose, which have been published in individual titles, anthologies and literary magazines. In 2008 he made his debut with the novel The Drawn Dog . In 2011, the cubist novel The hand tells of the thumb followed . Both novels are about the life of the members of a guest worker family, in the first and second generation. In 2015 he published his novel The False German , which is about a Germanophile Cuban . Thomas Podhostnik lives in Leipzig . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Fonts

• Unter Steinen, Parasite Press , Cologne, 2020, ISBN 978-3947676583
• Another Dane, Literature Quickie Verlag , Hamburg, 2018, ISBN 978-3945453-42-1
• The wrong German , Luftschacht Literaturverlag , Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902844-60-6
• Mittwacht , Verlagshaus Berlin , illustrated story (illustration by Lilli Gärtner), Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940249-99-9
• The hand tells about the thumb Luftschacht Literaturverlag , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902373-87-8
• The drawn dog Luftschacht Literaturverlag , Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902373-29-8

Anthologies and literary journals

• Edit. Paper for new texts , issue 38, Leipzig 2005,
• Ludzie, miasta. Literatura Białorusi, Niemiec, Polski i Ukrainy , ha! art, Krakow 2008, ISBN 978-83-61407-64-5
• Edit. Paper for new texts , issue 50, Leipzig autumn 2009 ISSN 0943-8645
• The Muzzle, Sheets for Literature and Art , Issue 23, Dresden 2018, ISSN 1865-9586

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Podhostnik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Podhostnik in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and information on the work of Thomas Podhostnik at Literaturport .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thomas Podhostnik - Authors' Lexicon - Literaturport.de. In: www.literaturport.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .