Tilman Strasser

Tilman Strasser at an event in the Literaturhaus Cologne , 2017.

Tilman Strasser (* 1984 in Munich ) is a German author and literary mediator .

Life

Strasser grew up in Gauting near Munich. After graduating from the Otto von Taube High School , he studied German language and literature and history at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and musicology at the Robert Schumann University , then creative writing and cultural journalism with Hanns-Josef Ortheil and Stephan Porombka at the university Hildesheim and literary studies at the University of Bologna . He has published texts in numerous anthologies and realized book projects for various independent publishers , and has received grants and sponsorship awards for his work . After completing his studies, he worked as a screenwriter in Cologne (including for the Filmpool film and television production and UFA Serial Drama ), as a journalist in Berlin (including for Tagesspiegel and Nachtkritik.de ) and as a lecturer at universities and colleges (including the University of Cologne , Art Academy for Media Cologne ). From 2015 to 2018 he was responsible for communication and programming for the Literaturhaus Köln .

In 2015 his novel Hasenmeister was published by Salis Verlag , which was received positively by the critics. Since 2017 he has been the host and organizer of the series between / miete nrw , which presents readings in student shared apartments . He is a co-founder of the Cologne comic festival and the interdisciplinary poetry festival satellites , founded the text workshop Kölner Schmiede (which sponsored the authors Berit Glanz and Demian Lienhard , among others ) and the Cologne Reading Club Festival . Strasser lives in Cologne and in the Neandertal .

Trivia

Strasser completed a musical education a. a. as a young violin student at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and as a member of the Tölzer Boys Choir for many years . He worked through the tension between aesthetic experience and drill in his debut novel .

Awards (selection)

• 2006 Seeschreiber St. Wolfgang, Upper Austria
• 2009 literature grant from the city of Munich
• 2018 scholarship Hamburg guest
• 2019 scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW
• 2019 working grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW
• 2020 scholarship from stadt.land.text NRW 2020
• 2020 Dieter Wellershoff grant with the novel project Gespinst

Publications (selection)

prose

• Hasenmeister , Roman, Salis Verlag, Zurich 2015. ISBN 978-3-906195-25-4
• Seeleben, narrative volume, Edition Art & Science, Strobl 2006, ISBN 978-3- 902157-22-5

With lyrics, drugs & rock'n'roll

• Germany's text top model . conradverlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811490-2-9
• Text, drugs & rock 'n' roll: unplugged . conradverlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811490-0-5

Contributions to anthologies and edited volumes (selection)

• About the conditions , Dittrich Verlag, Weilerswist 2019. ISBN 978-3-947-37331-4
• Something to do with writing. Graduated authors in the profession , mikrotext, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-944543-15-4
• Taxi Germany , Hanser Box, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-446-25144-1
• Landpartie 09 , Glück & Schiller, Hildesheim 2009. ISBN 978-3-941392-04-5
• Across the mainland. Eine Prosanovela , Edition Pächterhaus, Hildesheim 2008. ISBN 978-3-938404-22-5
• Loading time , Blumenkamp, ​​Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-9810685-3-5
• Culture diary. Living and writing in Hildesheim. Edition leaseholder house, Hildesheim 2007. ISBN 978-3-938404-20-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Tilman Strasser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Tilman Strasser in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Profile at the University of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tilmann Strasser becomes town clerk. In: Börsenblatt. June 5, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 . 
2. ^ Cordula Hupfer: Tilman Strasser explores the region. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. January 15, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ The 2020 Scholarship Holders , stadt-koeln.de, accessed on June 18, 2020.