Paul Brodowsky
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Paul Brodowsky
Paul Brodowsky was born in Kiel in 1980. He studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the University of Hildesheim. He was co-founder and editor of the literary magazine BELLA triste as well as artistic co-director of the first Hildesheim literature festival PROSANOVA. His plays premiered at the Schaubühne Berlin and the Theater Freiburg, among others, and were invited to the Stückemarkt of the Berliner Theatertreffen. He is Professor of »Dramatic Technique« in the Creative Writing for the Stage course at the UdK Berlin. Väter is his first novel.
Paul Brodowsky was born in Kiel in 1980. He studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the University of Hildesheim. He was co-founder and editor of the literary magazine BELLA triste as well as artistic co-director of the first Hildesheim literature festival PROSANOVA. His plays premiered at the Schaubühne Berlin and the Theater Freiburg, among others, and were invited to the Stückemarkt of the Berliner Theatertreffen. He is Professor of »Dramatic Technique« in the Creative Writing for the Stage course at the UdK Berlin. Väter is his first novel.
Awards (selection)
Preis der Autoren der Frankfurter Autorenstiftung 2008
»Writer in Residence« at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California 2008
Förderpreis für Literatur des Landes Niedersachsen 2006
»Writer in Residence« at Deutsches Haus at New York University Winter 2005/06
Jahresstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2005
Arbeitsstipendium des Landes Niedersachsen 2003
»Writer in Residence« at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California 2008
Förderpreis für Literatur des Landes Niedersachsen 2006
»Writer in Residence« at Deutsches Haus at New York University Winter 2005/06
Jahresstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2005
Arbeitsstipendium des Landes Niedersachsen 2003
Preis der Autoren der Frankfurter Autorenstiftung 2008
»Writer in Residence« at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California 2008
Förderpreis für Literatur des Landes Niedersachsen 2006
»Writer in Residence« at Deutsches Haus at New York University Winter 2005/06
Jahresstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2005
Arbeitsstipendium des Landes Niedersachsen 2003
»Writer in Residence« at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California 2008
Förderpreis für Literatur des Landes Niedersachsen 2006
»Writer in Residence« at Deutsches Haus at New York University Winter 2005/06
Jahresstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2005
Arbeitsstipendium des Landes Niedersachsen 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2023
Paul BrodowskyYear of Publication: 2023
Fathers
His father, born in 1933, only talks about the Nazi era when Paul asks him about it. About the National Political Institute of Education, the Napola, about the Jewish furrier at the market and about his uncle. Uncle Paul, after whom the son is named and who was a district manager for the NSDAP. The son, born in 1980 as the youngest of eight children, finds only a slim file in the Federal...
Year of Publication: 2007
Paul BrodowskyYear of Publication: 2007
The Blind Photographer
A photographer who loses her sight commissions a friend to describe what he sees. He wanders the city to reclaim her lost impressions but cannot connect her to the world of color and form, a world of which she has long since taken her last existential photograph.
A young composer discovers that his girlfriend has been having an affair with his friend and competitor. A sleepless stalker...
A young composer discovers that his girlfriend has been having an affair with his friend and competitor. A sleepless stalker...