Matthias Politycki

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Full Name	Matthias Politycki
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 20, 1955(1955-05-20)
Age	69
Birthplace	Karlsruhe
Country	Germany
Birth City	Baden-Württemberg
Horoscope	Taurus

Matthias Politycki Biography

Matthias Politycki is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 20, 1955 in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Matthias Politycki, a German poet and novelist, was born in Karlsruhe on 20 May 1955. He was educated in Munich and Vienna, and received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1987. His first novel Aus Falle/Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman. (Drop outs / Disassembling Rainbow. In the same year, Entwickelungsroman was published. In 1997, he created Weiberroman (Novel of Women), and in 2008, he launched his cruise ship satire In 180 Tagen um die Welt.

Matthias Politycki’s first novel in 1987 Aus Falle / Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman. (Drop outs / Disassembling Rainbow. An Entwickelungsroman was an experimental writer who echoed James Joyce’s writing style. His reputation as an “form-fixated avantgardist” was ascribed to him. His sights were set on “new readability” in German literature by the 1990s. He believed that literature should be “like rock music”.

Politycki presented all of his many poetry collections on stage. In 1996–1997, he went on tour with Robert Gernhardt and their common lyrical program Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Women and Song); in 2004–2005 he joined Hellmuth Opitz and Steffen Jacobs with Frauen. Naja. Schwierig (Women. Well Now. Difficult). Publisher Uwe Wittstock described him as “the greatest living linguistic gourmet among German poets”. Politycki’s collected poetry edition Sämtliche Gedichte 2017–1987 was awarded NDR Book of the Month in June 2018. It is a collection of previously published monographs, sporadically released poems as well as a new poem cycle and contains an afterword by Wolfgang Frühwald.

After Weiberroman in 1997, Politycki acknowledged his identity as a writer from the “Generation of 1978” (Reinhard Mohr) that he distinguished from the 1968 Movement with its strong protest tradition. His book was described as a cult novel; it is regarded as a key text of Postmodern literature in Germany.

Matthias Politycki’s first novel Aus Falle / Zerlegung des Regenbogens won the Civitas-Literaturpreis in 1987 and the Bayerischer Staatsforderpreis for literature in 1988. In 2009, he received the Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis of the city of Munich. In 2010, he was awarded the Preis der LiteraTour Nord.

Matthias Politycki Net Worth

Matthias Politycki is one of the richest Writer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthias Politycki 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied German literature, philosophy and communication at the Universities in Munich and Vienna from 1975 to 1987. He graduated with a Magister degree in 1981. He completed his PhD in 1987 with Walter Muller Seidel in Munich. Umwertung aller Werte was his dissertation about Nietzsche, a subtil interpreter of tradition’s influence on contemporary value-ideals. Deutsche Literatur im Urteil Nietzsches.

Matthias Politycki was born in Munich. He began writing at the age of sixteen after he was dissatisfied in his love. He achieved his school-leaving certifiate (Abitur) in 1974 at the Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium. In 1974/75, he served his military service with the 541 Infantry Battalion at Neuburg an der Donau. In 1977, he was a military reserve and completed a training exercise. However, he decided to renounce active duty. On 21 December 1977, he was officially declared a conscientious objector.

Politycki taught for three semesters as a tenured assistant professor at the Munich Insitut für Deutsche Philologie. His career as a freelance writer began in earnest in 1990, although he continued as a freelance editor for Munich Publishers C.H. Beck until 1999. He encouraged dialogue among writers, literary editors and critics as organizer of the annual “Untitled” conferences from 2000 to 2005 at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps. In 2011, he was curator of the Munich Literature Festival. Matthias Politycki is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg in Hamburg. He lives in Hamburg and Munich.

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Politycki has completed numerous book tours, including at the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference in August 2012 and the Belfast Festival at Queen’s in October 2014. His collected poems were published by Hoffmann und Campe in

2018. He has won numerous awards including the Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis in

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In his 2013 novel Samarkand Samarkand, the carefully honed plot, which took about twenty-five years to create, shifts attention to the year 2026. The scene is set in legendary Samarkand, where Alexander Kaufner, a mountain ranger and frontier runner, embarks on a quest to find a mysterious cult place, a second Samarkand somewhere hidden high up in the mountains. The novel evolves a dark dystopia of the free West on the brink of collapse due to the aggression of Greater-Russia and the fundamentalist alliances of the Caliph of Baghdad. Kaufner’s mission is to save the Western world from destruction. The critic Martin Halter commented that “Samarkand Samarkand is an immensely eloquent, oriental and vivid travelogue and adventure story that penetrates to the heart of darkness.”