Tilman Rammstedt

Tilman Rammstedt at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

Tilman Rammstedt at a reading in Bruneck , South Tyrol

Tilman Rammstedt (born May 2, 1975 in Bielefeld ) is a German writer and musician . In 2008 he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

life and work

Tilman Rammstedt is the son of the sociologist Otthein Rammstedt and his wife Angela. He studied philosophy and literature in Tübingen , Berlin and Edinburgh .

Some of his novels and short stories have been translated into French , English , Spanish , Catalan and Czech . In 2016, Hanser Verlag published parts of its nascent novel on the Internet.

Together with the authors Michael Ebmeyer , Florian Werner and Bruno Franceschini, he forms the music and literature group Fön . He was also a permanent member of the Berlin reading stage Visch & Ferse . Rammstedt lives in Berlin .

Works

• A frog queen . Illustrations by Silke Schmidt. Edition Wasser im Turm, Berlin 1999
• Errands before the party . Stories. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2003.
• We stay close . Novel. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2005.
• The Emperor of China . Novel. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2008.
  • Audiobook (read by the author): 4 CDs. The Hörverlag, Munich 2008/2010.
  • Theater version (director: Thomas Ladwig) premiered at the Schauspiel Essen 2009.
• The adventures of my former bank advisor. Novel. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9686-8 . (With Bruce Willis as the main character.)
• More tomorrow , Roman. Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25096-3 .

With hair dryer

• My life as a hair dryer. Adventure novel. Piper, Munich 2004 (under the collective pseudonym K. L. McCoy ).
• We have time. Audio CD, Traumton (Indigo), 2004.
• A little suddenly. Audio CD, Traumton (Indigo), 2007.

Scattered publications

• L., the seasons and me too. In: Bella triste , No. 01, Hildesheim 2001.
• Wormholes. Short story. In: Borders. Scritture Giovani, Corraini, Mantua 2003. p. 135.
• 15 years of German unity. Correspondence with Daniela Danz . In the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 15 to November 19, 2005.
• A solution that is satisfactory for all parties . Interview. In: Bella triste , No. 22, Hildesheim 2008.
• To Goethe's “May Festival”. A dialogue. In: Hans-Gerd Koch (Ed.): Sturm und Drang - An era and its attitude towards life in the eyes of young authors. Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf 2009.
• Fresh Montauk ? Vain whispers. In: Away with it - The literary canon. Die Zeit , May 20, 2010, page 8.

Awards

• 2001: Winner of the 9th Open Mike of the Berlin Literature Workshop
• 2003: Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland (sponsorship prize)
• 2005: Kassel Prize for Comical Literature from the Brückner-Kühner Foundation
• 2006: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 2008: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
• 2008: Main and audience award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2008: Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize
• 2009: Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
• 2017: LiteraTour North Prize for Tomorrow More
• 2019: one-year scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
• 2020: Working grant from the German Literature Fund

literature

• Walter Gödden: Tales from a thousand and one nights. Tribute to Tilman Rammstedt on the occasion of the Droste Prize. In: Westfalenspiegel 6/2008, p. 43.

Web links

Commons : Tilman Rammstedt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Tilman Rammstedt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tilman Rammstedt at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and information on Tilman Rammstedt's work at Literaturport
• Tilman Rammstedt - Interpretations and catalog raisonné in the author's lexicon of the University of Duisburg-Essen / Faculty of Humanities - German Studies
• Reading by Tilman Rammstedt in Hamburg on February 4, 2010
• “The Baron of Lies” - Interview in the magazine uMag on December 1, 2008, accessed on January 23, 2016

proof

1. ^ Short biography and information on the work of Tilman Rammstedt at Literaturport
2. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur : Writers and Musicians. Tilman Rammstedt in portrait. June 26, 2008.
3. ↑ Just like Ilija Trojanow did his "novel in progress" 20 years earlier .
4. ↑ Tomorrow more Rammstedt - a subscription to a novel. On the Hanser Verlag website, accessed on January 23, 2016.
5. ↑ Jens Dirksen: Tilman Rammstedt's "The Emperor of China" premiered. Report at derwesten.de of November 22, 2009. Retrieved on December 23, 2012.
6. ↑ Borders. (PDF file. 2.6 MB) Texts by Bjarte Breiteig, Richard John Evans, Angharad Price, Tilman Rammstedt and Flavio Soriga . Retrieved December 21, 2012.
7. ↑ Item list. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 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. Retrieved December 23, 2012. 
8. ^ The text on Zeit Online from May 25, 2010. Retrieved on December 23, 2012.
9. ↑ Award-winning text at the 2008 Bachmann Prize. Accessed December 21, 2010.
10. ^ Tilman Rammstedt wins Bachmann Prize. In Spiegel Online on June 29, 2008.
11. ↑ Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft: Literature Awards 2009 ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.