Christopher Kloeble

Christopher Kloeble (3 July 1982 Munich) is a German writer.

Life

Kloeble is the son of actor, screenwriter and producer Til Erwig; he grew up in Upper Bavaria Königsdorf, attended high school in Bad Tolz and was a member of the Tölzer Knabenchor (boys choir). He participated in the manuscript course at Ludwig Maximilian University. Until 2007, Kloeble studied at the German Institute for Literature. Kloeble published in literary magazines and developed materials for film and television productions. In June 2010, he was read at the 34th German Literature Days in Klagenfurt at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. He has lived in New Delhi and Berlin.

On December 2, 2011, BR alpha-house broadcast his first screenplay, directed by Marc-Andreas Borchert.^[1]

In 2015, he was Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College.^[2]

Critical reception

Kloeble's debut novel, Unter Einzelgängern (Under loners) explores the structure of a family in the form of a frame and internal narrative: "The worlds of the characters in the novel and the novel in the novel penetrate each other", Walter Hinck and Arnold Stadler wrote in their vote on the literature prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted "an ingenious design". The Süddeutsche Zeitung found that the author had "clearly wanted too much." The time likened the dramatic interplay between the individual characters to a play.^[3]

"Our inspiration comes through the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall without reason" will lower loners "to contemporary history or political novel. The language of the author is the young generation of today. How laconically and vividly and with which scarcely perceptible irony the author can tell, by way of example shows the end of the novel, the report on the successive visits of family members at the mother's grave."^[4]

Works

• "Hitler auf Jagd". In: Muschelhaufen: Jahresschrift für Literatur und Grafik. Bd. 44. Viersen 2004, ISSN 0085-3593
• Unter Einzelgängern. Roman. dtv, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-24665-1
• Die ewigen drei. In: Geschichten + Gerichte. Dölling und Galitz, Hamburg und München 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-69-6
• Miami, nä! Hodemacher, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-941938-00-7
• 13 24 51. In: Gothic. dark stories. Beltz u. Gelberg, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3407741202
• Zwanzig Sekunden Mathematik. In: Zeit der Witze. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3898126014
• Wenn es klopft. Erzählungen. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24720-7
• Meistens alles sehr schnell. Roman. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-24901-0^[5][6][7]

Works in English

• Kloeble, Christopher (2 February 2016). Almost Everything Very Fast: A Novel. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-922-5. 

References

External links

• Official website
• Christopher Kloeble at the Internet Movie Database
• Literature by and about Christopher Kloeble in the German National Library catalogue
• Kurzbiographie und Angaben zum Werk von Christopher Kloeble bei Literaturport
• Christopher Kloeble at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (German)
• Website des Autors
• Kloeble im Poetenladen

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.