Tomer Gardi

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Tomer Gardi at the Bachmann Prize 2016

Tomer Gardi (Hebrew: תומר גרדי, born 1974 in Dan ) is an Israeli writer.

Life

Gardi was born in 1974 in Kibbutz Dan in Galilee and lives in Tel Aviv . When he was 12 years old, he moved with his parents and brothers to Vienna for three years, where he attended the American school. Gardi describes the German he learned at the time as "very oral" because he learned the language from listening and speaking and not from reading and writing. He studied literature and education in Jerusalem , Berlin and Be'er Scheva . He was editor of Sedek: A Journal on the Ongoing Nakba and the accompanying book series. The magazine is a project of the Israeli-Jewish initiative Zochrot , which deals with the expulsion of the Palestinians.

His first book Stein, Papier: A Search for Traces in Galilee was published in 2011 in Hebrew and in 2013 in German by Rotpunktverlag . In the book, Gardi deals with the history of the kibbutz in which he grew up.

The second novel Broken German , which Gardi wrote in incorrect but understandable German, was published by Droschl in 2016 . It contains chapters presented by Tomer Gardi at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2016 . The jury discussed whether a text that did not speak German was even permissible. The literary critic of Bayerischer Rundfunk , Cornelia Zetzsche , judged that this actually most interesting text of the competition had come out completely empty, was a surrender to the most touching, riskiest, most lasting story of these three reading days. Where avant-gardists spend a long time tinkering, Tomer Gardi's language is captivating and playfully creative. With "Broken German" Gardi had "succeeded in doing something of his own", wrote Alex Rühle in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and the novel was "A treasure. (...) A unique book".

In an interview in the newspaper Die Welt , Tomer Gardi explains: “I took my language from everywhere. When you're in Berlin, you hear so many different ways of talking. Everyone should be able to write in German. "

In February 2018, the WDR Gardis radio play Die Feuerbringer - Eine Schlager-Operetta was broadcast, in which an abandoned Schlager singer is sentenced by a court to a "Schlager workshop for migrants" and meets four musicians in a Cologne café. This creates "German home music" with "completely new tones".

Publications

Theater adaptations

  • Broken German at the Schauspielhaus Graz , world premiere 2017, directed by Dominic Friedel
  • Broken German at the Schauspiel Köln , world premiere 2019, directed by Mirjam Pietchamoa

Radio plays and radio play adaptations

  • Broken German , director: Noam Brusilovsky , SWR 2017 ( German Radio Play Award of ARD 2017)
  • Die Feuerbringer - Eine Schlager-Operetta , directed by Susanne Krings, WDR 2018
  • How the blind dream, director: Noam Brusilovski, SWR 2019

Awards

  • Tomer Gardi was twice a fellow of Styrian Artist in Residence , Graz.
  • Gardi was a candidate for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 at the invitation of Klaus Kastberger . He read an untitled text in faulty German about a nameless first-person narrator, his mother and a mistake in a suitcase at the airport.

literature

  • Hannah Lühmann: Kafka would be the better boss , Interview, in: Literarisches Welt , August 13, 2016, p. 1
  • Anne Betten: BROKEN GERMAN -Tomer Gardi's Berlin novel about migration, language and German-Jewish history. Academia.edu, June 3, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hannah Lühmann: Tomer Gardi in an interview about his book "Broken German". In: welt.de . August 18, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Portrait of the author on the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize homepage , accessed on August 4, 2016
  3. ↑ http://cdn-storage.br.de/MUJIuUOVBwQIbtChb6OHu7ODifWH_-by/_-0S/9AFf_-Fg/160704_0830_kulturWelt_Kommentar-Die-Preistraeger-des-Bachmann-Pre.mp3 ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2016 in the 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cdn-storage.br.de
  4. ↑ SZ, December 13, 2016, p. 15 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/migrationsroman-bar-zum-roten-faden-1.3290746?reduced=true
  5. ↑ WDR 3, Die Feuerbringer - Eine Schlager-Operetta from February 24, 2018 [1] accessed on January 29, 2019
  6. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/deutscher-hoerspielpreis-auszeichnung-fuer-swr-produktion.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=814478
  7. ↑ Documentation of the jury discussion at the Bachmann Prize 2016 , accessed on August 4, 2016
  8. ↑ Who does the German language belong to? , FAZ blog report of July 3, 2016, accessed on August 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gardi, Tomer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES תומר גרדי
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Dan (kibbutz)