Tobias Hülswitt
Tobias Hülswitt (born April 13, 1973 in Hanover ) is a German writer.
Life
After graduating from high school, Hülswitt worked as a stonemason. In 1997 he began studying at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . During his student days he published the novel Saga and worked for a year as the editor of the literary magazine Edit . Since completing his studies, he has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. In addition to teaching positions at the University of the Arts Berlin since 2003 - as a lecturer for interactive narration and text in time-based media - he was visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig in the summer semester of 2005 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2008 . Tobias Hülswitt occasionally writes for newspapers and magazines (including Standard , Jetzt-Magazin , taz , FAZ , Zeit , Kursbuch ) and is also a co-author of scripts. Together with Florian Thalhofer he organized the series of events Help, Freedom! at the Münchner Kammerspiele , what do you believe in, Europe? with the Goethe-Institut Prague, as well as Will we save the earth? - Talks about the future of technology and the planet in the format of the so-called Korsakowhow. In 2008 the two founded the Korsakow Institute together with Matt Soar .
Awards
- 1997: Scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben / Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
- 1998: Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, won the open mike competition of the literaturWERKstatt berlin
- 2000: Award for the Book of the Year Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2001: Scholarship from the Literary Colloquium Berlin , scholarship from the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art
- 2002: "City clerk of Cairo" at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Cairo (documented on www.jetzt.de)
- 2003: Award of the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize , scholarship from the Berlin Senate Administration for Science, Research, Culture
- 2004: Scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research, Culture, Scholarship from the Villa Decius in Cracow, funding for literature from the District Association of the Palatinate, special jury award for the Book of the Year Rhineland-Palatinate
- 2005: Invitation to the competitive reading of the Alfred Döblin Prize with the manuscript of the story "Things by Light"
- 2006: Scholarship holder of the tandem program of the Brandenburg Gate Foundation
- 2007: Scholarship holder of the Villa Aurora , Los Angeles
Works
- That's life . Dreieck-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-930559-32-3 .
- Saga . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2000, ISBN 3-462-02947-9 .
- I can make up a wound for you . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2004, ISBN 3-462-03378-6 .
- Little Mr. Mister . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2006, ISBN 978-3-462-03714-2 .
- with Glummie Riday: Bernhard Bonsai takes revenge . Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag leiv, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89603-272-0 .
- Things by light . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04061-6 .
- Will we live forever - Conversations about the future of people and technology . edition unseld, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-26030-2 .
- Handbook of Nonlinear Storytelling . edition paechterhaus, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941392-22-9 .
- with Jürgen Tautz: The honeybee's basics: 66 x knowledge to have a say and tell further . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Munich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-58368-5 .
- Radio play adaptation
- Heiner Grenzland / Tobias Hülswitt: Making of ... (also under the title of the novel I can make up a wound for you ) Director: Heiner Grenzland, Participants: Karina Plachetka , Gábor Biedermann , Mark Waschke , Götz Schulte , Katharina Burowa , Antje von der Ahe , Bettina Kurth , Patrick Güldenberg , Maxim Mehmet , Paul Sonderegger , 53 minutes, DLR 2004.
- Animation film
- Undercurrents , 2012, directed by Michael Fragstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help, freedom!
- ↑ Are we going to save the earth? Talks about the future of technology and the planet
- ↑ Nonlinear narrative culture ( memento of the original from April 1, 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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tobias Hülswitt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Tobias Hülswitt at Literaturport
- Tobias Hülswitt's website
- Animated film undercurrents
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hülswitt, Tobias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |