Uwe Tellkamp

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Uwe Tellkamp (2009)

Uwe Tellkamp (born October 28, 1968 in Dresden ) is a German writer . His most tester novel The Tower (2008) is about the last seven years of the GDR until the turn of the view of the educated middle class in Dresden's villa section. It was classified as a reversible novel and has received several prizes.

Life

Uwe Tellkamp grew up as the son of a doctor in the Dresden villa district Weißer Hirsch at Oskar-Pletsch-Straße 10. In order to secure his planned medical studies, he committed himself to a three-year service as a non -commissioned officer in the NVA after graduating in 1987 . He later referred to his work there as a "tank commander". Even before October 1989, Tellkamp became conspicuous for “political diversion activity ”, as he had texts by West authors and Wolf Biermann with him. Nevertheless Tellkamp remained until October 1989 NVA sergeant .

Because his unit was supposed to move out against members of the opposition, among whom Tellkamp suspected his brother, he refused to give the order . Tellkamp describes the process in an interview as follows:

“When Genscher went to the balcony and said they could leave, the trains were directed from there via Dresden to West Germany. Honecker had stipulated that these trains would run through GDR territory again, which was a serious mistake. At the beginning of October the whole thing escalated, because of course there were rumors in the city that these trains were coming. There was a visa requirement, you could no longer go to Czechoslovakia or Poland . The joke then raged: Basically, we can only leave the country with our feet first. Everyone was afraid of what was going to happen and where it was going. Very, very many people then went out to the train station and tried to hang on to the trains to get out and escape. That is the prehistory. The barracks in which I was then had the order on October 5th to take action against Group 20 , an opposition movement that had emerged from this anarchy . "

Tellkamp was imprisoned for two weeks and then on leave. This was followed in 1989 as an assistant on a brown coal excavator and as an auxiliary lathe operator in a generator factory, and in 1990 as an assistant nurse in an intensive care unit in Dresden.

His study of medicine , he completed after the German reunification at the University of Leipzig , in New York and Dresden. After graduating, he worked as a doctor at a trauma surgery clinic in Munich, but gave up the job in 2004 in favor of his career as a writer.

In a 2004 interview, Tellkamp stated that he discovered his calling to be a writer on October 16, 1985 at 3:30 p.m. On that day, he saw the beauty of red roses in his garden at home and felt the desire to express this image in verse . After an hour he wrote the text in prose.

Tellkamp's first satirical text was published in Eulenspiegel magazine in 1987 . He made his first public appearance as a writer in 1992 in Dresden.

Tellkamp is married and has a son and a daughter. He lived temporarily in Munich , Karlsruhe and Freiburg im Breisgau . Since 2009 he has had his main residence again in the Dresden district of Weißer Hirsch.

Works

Published works

Tellkamp published numerous articles in literary magazines (including Akzente , comma , du , EDIT , draft , Lose Blätter , ndl , writing book and language in the technical age ) as well as anthologies . Occasionally he also writes essays for newspapers. In 2000 his first novel Der Hecht, Die Träume and the Portuguese Café was published , which is set in the Dresden Hechtviertel after the fall of the Wall.

In June 2004 Tellkamp performed an excerpt from his novel Sleep in the Clocks in Klagenfurt and won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2004 for it . Because all high school graduates in Lower Saxony had to deal with this excerpt in German in 2008 and 2009, Tellkamp was promoted to the rank of author of compulsory school reading.

In 2005 the novel The Kingfisher was published . In autumn 2008 the novel The Tower was published . Publisher Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz from Suhrkamp-Verlag personally recommended the “big reversible novel of the younger generation”. On September 13, 2008, Elmar Krekeler treated the novel as “Book of the Week”. Tellkamp received the 2008 German Book Prize for the novel and, on November 1, 2009, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Literature Prize . A dramatized version of the novel was premiered on September 23, 2010 in Dresden. On October 3 and 4, 2012, ARD showed its two-part film adaptation of the novel, reaching around 7.5 million viewers.

In September 2009 Tellkamp published a “poem in forty chapters” with the title Journey to the Blue City , in August 2017 a prose volume with the title Die Carus-Dinge , which continues the story of the Hoffmann family and provides them with reflections on the Dresden doctor and Artist Carl Gustav Carus enriches. The story is based on an essay published by Tellkamp in 2011.

Projects

The story Sleep in the Clocks bears the subtitle "Excerpt from the novel Sleep in the Clocks ". In a 2005 interview, Tellkamp said that he had put the novel on hold after 100 pages and wanted to finish it after working on the tower . In an interview with Volker Hage , he said that the novel The Tower was the first part of a comprehensive novel project. Essentially, the following novel should deal with the eventful period between November 1989 and October 1990. The working title of this novel was originally planned to be Lava , according to a plan from September 2012 . In December 2012 Tellkamp stated that Lava should only name the first section of the novel, but that the entire novel should be called Sleep in the Clocks , as originally planned . In May 2014 he announced that he would finish the novel, which is supposed to be called Lava , in 2015. The "Day of German Unity" 2014 Tellkamp delivered as essay a synopsis of his latest novel. The new release date originally set for 2020 has been postponed to 2021. Uwe Tellkamp names the main reason for the delay that the publisher found a novel in one volume to be too long. That is why the novel Lava no longer contains the time from 2015 onwards. In 2021 there will be a book with the title Sleep in the Clocks. 1. Volume: Lava - open novel, or: News from the Chronicle. appear. The period from 2015 onwards will be dealt with in a second volume entitled Archipelago . But it is not finished yet and will therefore be published later.

Tellkamp's three-volume Nautilus project is likely to develop into a “life project”, according to Tomas Gärtner. Volume 1, entitled The Ash Ship , is primarily about politics and history, based on the journey to hell in Dante 's The Divine Comedy . Volume 2 ( Falter ), on the other hand, has paradise as the focus. Volume 3 ( Vineta ) is supposed to be a journey through Dresden, but also other cities and city-states, that extends to Utopia . In the interview with Volker Hage, Tellkamp announced a volume of poetry, and in public discussions after readings in autumn 2008, a volume on authors and literature and a collection of portraits.

On the occasion of the presentation of the German Freemasons' Culture Prize in June 2017, Uwe Tellkamp presented in a speech what motivates him to write:

“I'm interested in stories, that is, courses of action, relationships of being, for example the story of a person who was involved in the GDR's citizens' movement around 25 years ago and who said that he was now setting out for new shores, now the sun of freedom is dawning in his head . With this belief and with this idealism [...] this man did his best and made sure that an incredibly overwhelming system seemed to collapse. The work, the courage it takes to stand up to this state power as an individual, as a father of a family, cannot be overestimated. But now I see this story in context: I see it to this day, I see the same man, the same woman with their commitment somewhere in the second row, in politics silted up, ideals broken, the program is called disillusionment, and freedom is not the one one dreamed of, but one woke up in North Rhine-Westphalia to repeat a much-quoted word.
[2017] lightness and darkness categories are assigned. Interestingly, the darkness is located in the east. And there are bends, mechanisms, talk shows with inviting and unloading politics that shake me and that shake this figure, about whom I write because they remind her of the time 30 years ago. And this figure wonders whether you are now living in a GDR 2.0 - and if so, why. "

Tellkamp's way of working

Tellkamps work style is characterized in that it at irregular intervals extracts from unpublished extensive works at readings maintains and partly also published as separations. This is particularly true of his long poem in the tradition of Homer with the title Nautilus , but also of the novels Sleep in the Clocks and The Tower . Tellkamp often changes little things (for example by renaming "Niklas Buchmeister", known from the extract from the novel Sleep in Clocks, to "Niklas Tietze" while working on the novel The Tower ).

Uwe Tellkamp himself describes his literary work in the magazine Bella triste with the words: “The modern poet, as I understand him, is like the cathedral builder; Like those who set out to sail around Cape Horn or to find a sea route to India, he is inevitably pathetic - which he can accept if he succeeds in recreating the basic human feelings. "

In an interview with the Upper Palatinate Network, Tellkamp characterizes his letter as an “attempt to regain home ” that has been lost through the passage of time. In doing so, he places himself in the tradition of Marcel Proust ( In search of lost time ) .

reception

Uwe Tellkamp (2008)

Tellkamp's first novel The Pike, Dreams and the Portuguese Café (2000) met with little public interest. The novel was reissued in June 2009 against the author's stated will. A paperback was published in November 2009.

Tellkamp received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2004 for an excerpt from the still unfinished novel Sleep in the Clocks . The jury was enthusiastic about this extract. The numerous feuilleton articles from June 28, 2004 about the award ceremony show a mixed picture, as do the reviews written later . Above all, Tellkamp's virtuoso command of the language was praised, but criticism was that the excerpt was difficult to understand and that Tellkamp's appearance in Klagenfurt was tailored to the mentality of the jury.

Tellkamp's novel Der Eisvogel , published in 2005, polarized the feature pages. In a feature article entitled “Neues Deutschland” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on April 10, 2005 , Volker Weidermann accused Tellkamp that his novel did not show enough distance from the protagonists who advocate a conservative revolution and reject democracy. From the point of view of March 2018, Thomas Assheuer asked rhetorically: “Did Uwe Tellkamp use the new right bait in his novel The Kingfisher ?” In 2005, Ijoma Mangold from the Süddeutsche Zeitung considered the kingfisher to be a successful “political contemporary novel” that deals with the subject of terrorism . When asked whether he was a “real writer”, Uwe Tellkamp answered “No” in an interview with Daniela Weiland in 2005. "With a few exceptions, I think the criticism of the book failed," says Tellkamp in this context. The work was read by literary critics as a political pamphlet and not as a novel.

Elmar Krekeler wrote in 2004 about Tellkamp's political stance: "He is immunized against Ostalgie and free from unnecessary euphoria about the reunified Germany". Krekeler attested the author a penchant for " hermetics ", i. H. statements that cannot be completely deciphered. Krekeler explains this tendency through a double exclusion of Tellkamp from the world around him: first, the compulsory separation of GDR citizens from the West by walls and barbed wire, and second, the voluntary segregation of the educated middle class, which in East Germany is often referred to as “museum “Perceived way was preserved by the society of the GDR. As a result, according to Krekeler 2004, Tellkamp is spiritually closer to his colleagues in the former Eastern Bloc than to his German-speaking colleagues in the old federal states, in Austria and Switzerland.

Uwe Tellkamp himself expressed himself in detail about his opinion on recent German history in an interview published by the “Bund Deutscher Surgeons” on October 1, 2009.

Controversies from 2017

In the context of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017, Tellkamp was one of the 32 first signatories of the “Charter 2017”, an online petition by the Dresden bookseller Susanne Dagen . It was directed against the exclusion of the "unpopular" publishers Antaios , Manuscriptum and Tumult at the fair.

Before the Leipzig Book Fair 2018, Tellkamp's statements caused a sensation during a public discussion with Durs Grünbein on “freedom of expression in democracy” in the Dresden Kulturpalast . Regarding the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 , he said, among other things: "Most of them do not flee from war and persecution, but come here to immigrate into the social systems, over 95 percent." In Germany there is a "corridor of attitudes between desired and tolerated opinion". His opinion is "tolerated, it is not desired." The Suhrkamp Verlag distanced itself from these statements on Twitter . These sparked an extensive debate in feature sections and social media. Norbert Gstrein sees a possible "collateral damage" of the Dresden event in the fact that "literary speaking has literally got under the wheels", which means that Tellkamp's statements in literary works can no longer be read impartially.

Tellkamp initially did not comment on the debate, but then was one of the first to sign a “ Joint Declaration 2018 ” initiated by Vera Lengsfeld on March 15, 2018, which states: “We are increasingly puzzled as to how Germany is being damaged by illegal mass immigration becomes. We show solidarity with those who are demonstrating peacefully for the restoration of the rule of law on the borders of our country. ”Next to him, conservatives and new rights signed the declaration, including Henryk M. Broder , Eva Herman , Matthias Matussek , Thilo Sarrazin and Jörg Friedrich , Uwe Steimle , Karlheinz Weißmann and Martin Lichtmesz . The new right publisher Götz Kubitschek greeted them. The Association of German Writers (VS) condemned the declaration and pointed out that "making the weakest ... into scapegoats" does not solve "a single problem".

Awards and honors

Autograph

Publications

Novels and short stories

More literary work

  • Satirical texts in Eulenspiegel
  • Fairy tales of the paper cutting. Frau Zwirnevaden, Die Zeit and February 13, 1945. In: Die Welt. February 2, 2005 welt.de
  • Project Nautilus : Excerpts from the section Der Falter have already been published, namely Schwebeteppich partitur (in: Lose Blätter. Heft 27, 2004, p. 765 ff.), Falter (in: Lose Blätter. Heft 34, 2005, p. 1010 -1013) and lumens. Orphic (in: Orpheus gathers the spirits , anthology, Dresden, 2005, p. 50 ff.)
  • Sleep in the clocks . (Excerpt from the planned novel of the same name) 2004.
  • Bollywood Kohinoor football poem, TV presenter, sports channel (in: Die Zeit. Issue 45/2005 of November 2, 2005).
  • Black and yellow . Contribution to the 800th birthday of the city of Dresden, broadcast by MDR Figaro on March 31, 2006 in black and yellow by Uwe Tellkamp ( memento from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  • With thunderstorm light and dream . Notes on the lyrics today. Edited excerpt from the Munich speech on poetry, in: Bella triste No. 17, Hildesheim 2007.
  • Autobiographical narrative alternators. In: Renatus Deckert (ed.): The night in which the wall fell. Writers tell of November 9, 1989 . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, pp. 61–72.
  • Journey to the blue city . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2009 ( Insel-Bücherei 1323), ISBN 3-458-19323-5 .
  • The clock . Edition Eichthal, Eckernförde 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811115-3-8 .

Factual texts

Interviews

Audio and audiovisual documents

  • Uwe Tellkamp in conversation about “The Tower” .
  • In conversation: Uwe Tellkamp . Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk (interview with Daniela Weiland) on April 30, 2005 (29 minutes). BR-online ( Memento from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  • The great uncertainty . Video interview (3 minutes) from the Prosonova Festival 2008 zeit.de
  • Interview with book award winner Tellkamp: It's not just my prize . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 14, 2008 (3:38 minutes) Interview with Book Prize Winner Tellkamp It's not just my prize. FAZ , October 14, 2008, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 .;

literature

  • Elmar Krekeler: A portrait of Uwe Tellkamp. In: Iris Radisch (Hrsg.): The best 2004. Klagenfurt texts. Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04648-7 , pp. 47-54.
  • Christine Meffert , How do I start? In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 9, 2005.
  • Gunther Nickel : The Return of the Conservative Revolution. In: Swiss monthly books. 85th vol., H. 10, 2005, pp. 53-55.
  • Susanne Schulz , Uwe Johnson Prize goes to Uwe Tellkamp. In: Nordkurier. July 21, 2008.
  • Ulrike Janssen, Norbert Wehr: Aschestadt, diving language. Uwe Tellkamp's “Nautilus” . Radio feature (WDR 2008).
  • Kai Sina: The house on the Havel against the dirt of modernity. Cultural criticism from Uwe Tellkamp. In: Ole Petras, Kai Sina (ed.): Cultures of Criticism. Media descriptions of the present between pop and protest. Dresden 2011, pp. 33–50.
  • Gottfried Fischborn : A tower in the landscape. In: Gottfried Fischborn: Political culture and theatricality . Articles, essays, journalism. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63251-2 .
  • Peter Paul Schwarz: "'Take and read'" - The 'East German' as a reception phenomenon. In: Viviane Chilese, Matteo Galli (Ed.): Does the sun rise in the east? Trends in recent East German literature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5395-5 , pp. 29–45, here on "The Tower" on pages 36–39.

Web links

Commons : Uwe Tellkamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Junghänel, Markus Wächter: The Tower Society. Report. Berliner Zeitung, November 22, 2008.
  2. ↑ Philipp Engel: Uwe Tellkamp, ​​bestselling author and winner of the German Book Prize on the GDR, financial capitalism, writing and his next book. Ruhrbarone, February 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: “The boys have to fight again”. Welt online, August 13, 2004.
  4. ↑ www.lyrikwelt.de ( Memento from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Ulrich Rüdenauer : The baptism of a great author. Börsenblatt, October 20, 2008.
  6. ↑ Comeback for a debut novel: Uwe Tellkamp's "The Pike, the Dreams and the Portuguese Café". Leipziger Internet Zeitung (LIZ), July 19, 2009.
  7. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: At Uwe Tellkamp, ​​the clocks of the GDR are still ticking. Welt online, September 13, 2008.
  8. ↑ Uwe Tellkamp receives literature prize from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In: Free Press. January 28, 2009 ( memento of January 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 230 of October 5, 2012, p. 35 (“Media”).
  10. ↑ Uwe Tellkamp. The Carus things. Narrative. Perlentaucher.de, August 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ In conversation: Uwe Tellkamp. Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk on April 30, 2005 (29 minutes). www.br-online.de ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. ^ Book award winner Tellkamp: "In the end there was a confusion of languages". Spiegel Online , October 17, 2008.
  13. ↑ Martin Machowecz, Stefan Schirmer: Uwe Tellkamp: “There will be marauding gangs again”. Time online, September 23, 2012.
  14. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: Why do you continue “Der Turm”? FAZ.net , December 29, 2012.
  15. ↑ Dierk Wolters: Time is an invisible burden. Frankfurter Neue Presse, May 22, 2014.
  16. ↑ Uwe Tellkamp: turning point. Eastern time. Berner Zeitung, October 3, 2014.
  17. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: “Der Turm”: continuation of Uwe Tellkamp is to appear in spring 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: Reading by Uwe Tellkamp in Pulsnitz “Turning to the right you get on your hat immediately”. In: tagesspiegel.de. February 6, 2020, accessed August 21, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Dresden Latest News from July 27, 2004.
  20. ^ Uwe Tellkamp: Uwe Tellkamp's reply to the culture award. Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Freemasons Germany, June 8, 2017.
  21. ↑ My home is a paper ship . www.oberpfalznetz.de
  22. ↑ Volker Weidermann: When the tower was still a turret. In: FAZ.net . June 25, 2009, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  23. ↑ Many of them are printed in: The best. Klagenfurt texts 2004 . Piper. 2006, pp. 225-263.
  24. ↑ Uwe Tellkamp: The Eisvogel on perlentaucher.de with blurb and 5 review notes.
  25. ^ Volker Weidermann: New Germany. In: FAZ.net . April 11, 2005, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  26. ↑ Thomas Assheuer: The Great Depression. In: The time . March 14, 2018, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  27. ^ Ijoma Mangold. How to put the Federal Republic on a hot stove: Uwe Tellkamp's great novel “The Kingfisher”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. v. March 17, 2005.
  28. ↑ a b In conversation: Uwe Tellkamp . Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk (interview with Daniela Weiland) on April 30, 2005 (approx. 5:30 am). www.br-online.de ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  29. ↑ Elmar Krekeler. Uwe Tellkamp in portrait. In: The best. Klagenfurt texts 2004. Piper. 2006, p. 54.
  30. ↑ cf. also the essay “Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie and De-bourgeoisie in the GDR: Decline and Metamorphoses” by Thomas Großbölting; in: “ From Politics and Contemporary History ”, edition 9–10 / 2008; www.bpb.de
  31. ^ Association of German Surgeons: Interview with Uwe Tellkamp, ​​doctor and writer: "The whole subject is still radioactive" , Deutsches Ärzteblatt , October 1, 2009.
  32. ↑ Susanne Dagen reacts to the book fair incidents with a “Charter 2017”. Börsenblatt, October 17, 2017; Appeal: Charter 2017 - On the events at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017. openpetition.de.
  33. ^ Author debate: The sweet disease Dresden. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 14, 2018.
  34. ↑ Suhrkamp-Verlag distances itself from Uwe Tellkamp. Deutsche Welle, March 9, 2018.
  35. ↑ Dirk Knipphals: Debate about the writer Uwe Tellkamp: Differentiating art. taz, March 9, 2018; Jens Bisky: This is how you demonize garden gnomes. SZ, March 9, 2018; Adam Soboczynski, Durs Grünbein: “What we hear from Uwe Tellkamp, ​​we know from Pegida”. Time online, March 15, 2018; Causa Tellkamp - "In the end, I don't care whether that's right". Monika Maron in conversation with Christine Heuer. Deutschlandfunk, March 15, 2018; Alexander Kissler: Tellkamp versus Grünbein - it all just begins. Cicero Online, March 16, 2018.
  36. ↑ a b Xaver Cranach et al .: Opinion conflict: The crack. Der Spiegel No. 12, March 17, 2018, pp. 112–115
  37. ↑ Norbert Gstrein: The aggressively appearing morality loves all humanity. That's the immoral thing about her. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), March 22, 2018.
  38. ↑ Tellkamp signs the declaration. Sächsische Zeitung, March 17, 2017 ( Memento from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  39. ^ Christian Schröder: Uwe Tellkamp for solidarity against immigrants. Tagesspiegel, March 20, 2018.
  40. ↑ a b How explosive is the "Declaration 2018"? NDR, March 27, 2018.
  41. ↑ Tellkamp and Matussek sign "Declaration 2018". Deutschlandfunkkultur, March 20, 2018.
  42. ↑ online ( memento of February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Tellkamp, ​​Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , GDR