Volker Altwasser

Volker Harry Altwasser (born December 31, 1969 in Greifswald ) is a German writer .

Life

Before Volker Altwasser devoted himself to literature, he worked as an electronics technician, stoker, seaman, assembly worker and office clerk. From 1998 to 2001 he studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and last year was a master class student of the playwright and author Thomas Hürlimann . He completed his studies with a major in poetry with an examination of the works of Arthur Rimbaud and Sergej Jessenin as well as the poetry manuscript "Saudade". His first publications were in 1994 Some Poems and My Diotima Asked Me , 1995 On the Veranda. Not a novel. and the following year the crime thriller Errum, Minister of the series 'Blaulicht'.

After 2001 there were scholarships from the Lydia Eymann Foundation in Langenthal (Switzerland), Klagenfurt Literature Course (Austria), residence scholarships in Visby / Gotland (Sweden), and in Germany at the Künstlerhaus Lukas , Künstlerdorf Schöppingen , Cismar Monastery , Ostseevilla Artique . Altwasser was a participant in the 1st German-Polish poets' meeting in Krakow and the meeting of the highly talented young writers of the Arno Schmidt Foundation in Rendsburg.

His piece Forty Grad, easy-care was premiered in the Theater am Volkspark in Halle an der Saale after his studies.

Altwasser became famous in 2001 through his novel How I got rid of cutting out . He published in the Gewandhausmagazin and contributed to the literary magazine Risse . Altwasser was in charge of the Nordwärts - Lyrik für alle series of the Rostock literary house and contributed to the contemporary anthologies Vom Fisch bespuckt (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002), The Sea Principle (Knaur, 2002), Der wilde Osten (S. Fischer, 2002) and one- two (kookbooks, 2005).

In 2009, Matthes & Seitz Berlin published the historical novel Last Skin as the first part of a trilogy. The second part was published in 2010 under the title Last Silence , the third part, Last Fischer , in 2011. In addition, Altwasser has been publishing detective novels since 2011 under the pseudonym Richard R. Roesch .

In 2009, Volker Altwasser was nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize and in 2010 for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . On August 17, 2011 it was announced that last Fischer was nominated for the longlist of the German Book Prize. In 2011 he received the Italo Svevo Prize .

Altwasser lives in the Hanseatic city of Rostock . In December 2011 he was made a full member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg . In May 2012 Altwasser became the first city clerk of the UNESCO City of Literature Reykjavík (Goethe-Institut Copenhagen). At the end of 2012 he received a scholarship from the Prague Literature House for German-Language Authors . In 2013 the writer is a guest of the Deutsche Akademie Rome Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano, the Stuttgart Writer's House and the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. In 2014 his novel Glückliches Dieben was published , in which he worked through a fragment of a novel by Bruno Frank from 1945 about the death of the French writer Nicolas Chamfort and brought it to an end.

In spring 2015 Altwasser worked as a Sinecure scholarship holder in Landsdorf . In June 2015 he became the 23rd Burgschreiber zu Beeskow of the Beeskow Castle in Brandenburg .

His metafictional detective novel Rostock, last round , published in 2015, is designed as a hypertextual metalepse : a writer named Volker H. Altwasser reports as a narrator figure of the murder of his colleague Richard R. Roesch. The investigation is carried out by two commissioners who come from detective novels which (the factual author) Volker H. Altwasser published in 2011 and 2013 under the pseudonym Richard R. Roesch.

Works

• 1994 Some poems and my Diotima asked me . Poems. In: Leaves Heller Hope, No. 8. Berlin: Wasserturm Verlag.
• 1995 on the veranda. Not a novel. Kückenshagen: Scheunen-Verlag, ISBN 3-929370-33-6 .
• 1996 Error, Minister of the 'Blue Light' series.
• 2001 Forty degrees, easy to care for . Play. First performance in the Theater am Volkspark .
• 2003 How I got out of cutting . Novel. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN 3-462-03230-5 .
• 2009 last skin . Novel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 978-3-88221-744-5 .
• 2010 Last silence . Novel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 978-3-88221-681-3 .
• 2011 Last fisherman . Novel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 978-3-88221-554-0 .
• 2012 me, then nothing for a while . Theater novel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 978-3-88221-987-6 .
• 2014 happy death. Volker Harry Altwasser's novel about Bruno Frank's report, in which Chamfort tells of his death . Novel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 978-3-88221-197-9 .
• 2015 Rostock, last lap . Novel. Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag, ISBN 978-3-356-01993-3 .
• 2017 Before success . Stories. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 978-3-95757-405-3 .

Under the pseudonym Richard R. Roesch:

• 2011 French 75: A Rostock crime thriller . Erfurt: Sutton, ISBN 978-3-86680-868-3 .
• 2013 Pink Clover Club: A Mecklenburg crime thriller . Erfurt: Sutton, ISBN 978-3-95400-160-6 .

Prizes and awards

• 2003 Lydia Eymann scholarship
• 2011 Italo Svevo Prize
• 2012 scholarship from the Prague House of Literature
• 2013 stays at Casa Baldi (Olevano Romano) and Villa Aurora (Los Angeles)
• 2015 Sinecure residency grant and Beeskow Burgschreiber grant

literature

• Thomas Hürlimann : Downfall of Christian seafaring. Laudation for the Italo Svevo Prize for Volker Harry Altwasser . In: Sinn und Form 1/2012, pp. 129–131.

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Altwasser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Volker Altwasser at Literaturport
• Homepage of Volker H. Altwasser

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://bachmannpreis.eu/de/autoren/2269
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3. ↑ http://www.landsdorf.de/sinecure-gewinnsstipendium-2015/abritten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on June 25, 2015  
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 1, 2015 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. Retrieved June 18, 2015