Ulrich Janetzki

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Ulrich Janetzki (born September 5, 1948 in Selm ) is a German literary scholar and former director of the Berlin Literary Colloquium .

Life

Ulrich Janetzki completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale salesman after completing his secondary school leaving certificate. In 1972 he made up his Abitur on the second educational path and then studied German and philosophy at the TU Berlin . He was the last assistant to Höllerer , in which he in 1981 with a thesis on Konrad Bayer to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1986 to 2014 he headed the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) and is considered to be one of the most important connoisseurs and promoters of contemporary German literature. He “doesn't appreciate it” , as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung noted in a portrait of the LCB in 2003, to be named in the same breath “with the other [literary institutions].” Because, he is certain: “We are something special. ” Numerous authors owe their literary careers to his protection. In the NZZ article cited, he himself mentions Judith Hermann , Georg Klein , David Wagner and Zsuzsa Bánk . The literary critic Lutz Hagestedt stated: "[...] whoever can count on his [Janetzkis] advice and support [...] can prepare for a varied and lucrative life as a writer."

Janetzki is a partner of the Leipzig Book Fair for the award of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize , a member of numerous literary prize juries, the PEN Center Germany and, in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation, initiator of the international literature network HALMA .

Books by Ulrich Janetzki

  • Encounters, confrontations. Berlin: Ullstein 1987. ISBN 3548207634
  • Awards and grants. Handbook for authors. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Berlin: Quadriga 2000. (together with Christina Bode) ISBN 3886793427
  • Heroes like you. Berlin: Quadriga 2000. (together with Jürgen J. Becker) ISBN 3886793478
  • The city after the wall. Berlin: Ullstein 2002. (together with Jürgen J. Becker) ISBN 3548245099

Edited by Ulrich Janetzki

Literature and Sources

  1. ^ Villa with a view of the lake: Forty Years of the Literary Colloquium Berlin , NZZ , May 16, 2003
  2. ^ Sinecuren noch und noch: Authors and Literature Funding in Germany , by Lutz Hagestedt , Rezensionsforum, literaturkritik.de, No. 7 July 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Janetzki, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Selm