Maxim Biller
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Maxim Biller (born 25 August 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a German writer and columnist.
Early life
Born in Prague to Soviet Jewish parents, Rada Biller and Semjon-Jevsej Biller. He emigrated with his parents and sister to West Germany in 1970, when he was ten years old.[1] After living for a long time in Hamburg and Munich, he now lives in Berlin, frequently writing about issues relating to Jewish and German relations.[2] His maternal grandfather was Armenian.[3]
Works
In 2003 his novel Esra excited attention when its sale was prohibited shortly after its release. Two persons had a provisional order obtained, because they claimed to have seen themselves reflected in characters in the book. A German court obliged their request to take the book from circulation on these grounds.[4][5]
His first works translated into English (by Anthea Bell) are the collection Love Today (2008), some of which appeared in The New Yorker.[6]
Beliefs
Biller strongly identifies as a Zionist and is very critical of antisemitism within the anti-Zionist movement.[7]
Publications
- Wenn ich einmal reich und tot bin: Erzählungen (Someday when I'm rich and dead: Narratives), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1990, Template:ISBN (including the narrative Harlem Holocaust)
- Die Tempojahre: Essays und Reportagen, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1991, Template:ISBN
- Aufbruch nach Deutschland: Sechzehn Foto-Essays
- Land der Väter und Verräter: Erzählungen, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994, Template:ISBN
- Harlem Holocaust (short novel), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998, Template:ISBN
- Die Tochter, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000, Template:ISBN
- Kühltransport, 2001
- Deutschbuch, 2001
- Esra : Roman, 2003, Template:ISBN (distribution was prohibited from publishing by court)
- Der perfekte Roman: Das Maxim-Biller-Lesebuch, 2003
- Bernsteintage: Erzählungen, 2004
- Maxim Biller Tapes (CD with songs and poems), 2004
- I Love My Leid (video), 2004
- Moralische Geschichten: Satirische Kurzgeschichten, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005 Template:ISBN
- Adas größter Wunsch (children's book), 2005
- Menschen in falschen Zusammenhängen (comedy), 2006
- Liebe heute (short stories), 2007
- Ein verrückter Vormittag (children's book), 2008
- Der gebrauchte Jude (self-portrait), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, Template:ISBN
- Kanalratten (theater play), Fischer 2013 Template:ISBN
- Im Kopf von Bruno Schulz: Novelle, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, Template:ISBN
- Jack Happy (children's book), Atlantik, Hamburg 2014, Template:ISBN
- Biografie: Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, Template:ISBN
- Mama Odessa: Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2023, ISBN 978-3-462-00486-1
Awards
- 1994 Toucan Prize from the city of Munich
- 1996 Preis des Europäischen Feuilletons: "Feuilleton" are the culture pages in German speaking newspaper
- 1996 Template:Ill
- 1999 Theodor Wolff Prize
- 2008 Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship of University of Kassel[8]
- 2012 Würth-Literaturpreis
References
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- 1960 births
- Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany
- Czech people of Armenian descent
- Czech people of Russian-Jewish descent
- German people of Czech-Jewish descent
- German people of Russian-Jewish descent
- German male writers
- Jewish Czech writers
- Living people
- Writers from Prague
- German people of Armenian descent
- German Zionists
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