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'''Matthias Politycki''' born (20 May 1955) in [[Karlsruhe]] is a German novelist and poet.<ref>[https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/matthias-politycki Bio 1]</ref> He studied in Munich and Vienna and obtained a PhD in philosophy in 1987. His first novel ''Aus Fälle/Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman.'' (Drop Outs / Disassembling the Rainbow. An Entwickelungsroman) appeared that same year. His breakthrough came in 1997 with ''Weiberroman'' (Novel of Women) and in 2008 with his cruise ship satire ''In 180 Tagen um die Welt'' (Around the World in 180 Days).▼
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▲'''Matthias Politycki''' (born
His lifetime passion to travel to foreign countries also influences his perception of his own culture, and provides a source of new ideas for his writing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Matthias Politycki über Fernweh - "Jede Reise ist zu Beginn ein Ausweg" |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/matthias-politycki-ueber-fernweh-jede-reise-ist-zu-beginn.970.de.html?dram:article_id=383854 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |
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.<ref>[http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/matthias-politycki/ Bio 4]</ref> He has won numerous awards including the [[Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis]] in 2009.
==Life==
From 1975 to 1987, he studied German literature, philosophy, theatre- and communication studies at the Universities of Munich and Vienna and graduated in 1981 with a ''Magister'' degree. In 1987, he completed his PhD with Walter Müller-Seidel in Munich. His dissertation on Nietzsche as a subtle interpreter of the influence of tradition and contemporary value-ideals was entitled ''Umwertung aller Werte? Deutsche Literatur im Urteil Nietzsches.''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krummel |first1=Richard F. |title=Matthias Politycki, Umwertung aller Werte? Deutsche Literatur im Urteil Nietzsches (Book Review) |journal=Colloquia Germanica |date=1 January 1991 |volume=24 |page=159}}</ref>
Politycki taught for three semesters as a tenured assistant professor at the Munich
==Literary work==
===Novels and short stories===
Matthias Politycki's first novel in 1987 ''Aus Fälle / Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman.'' (Drop Outs / Disassembling the Rainbow. An Entwickelungsroman) was experimental and echoed the writing style of [[Arno Schmidt]] and [[James Joyce]]. He was described as a "form-fixated avant-gardist".<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Killy Literaturlexikon
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]];<ref>{{cite web |title=Munzinger Online |url=https://www.munzinger.de |website=www.munzinger.de |publisher=Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg}}</ref> it is regarded as a key text of [[Postmodern literature]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grevsen |first1=Niels |title=Bücherjournal |url=https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/buecherjournal/Buecherjournal,sendung938804.html |work=www.ndr.de |date=25 August 1997 |language=de}}</ref>
After five months in the Caribbean, his constant quest to explore the experience of a clash between familiar and foreign cultures emerged in his 2005 Cuba novel, ''Herr der Hörner'' (Lord of the Horns). This was the tale of an enlightened European's fight for survival in a culture influenced by archaic rituals. The story was a "search for the exotic" as much as about the will to resist the belief-system of [[Palo (religion)]] and [[Santería]] religions, and a "culmination of [[Nietzsche]]'s admired 'Dionysian worldview'".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nickel |first1=Gunther |title=Kampfansage an die westliche Dekadenz |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article164079/Kampfansage-an-die-westliche-Dekadenz.html |
In 2006, [[Hapag-Lloyd]] invited Politycki to become a writer-in-(non)-residence on board its luxury passenger ship MS Europa. Ten years after his best-selling ''Weiberroman'', Politycki matched its success with his 2008 picaresque novel ''In 180 Tagen um die Welt''. This is the story of a "modern Simplicissimus" who describes "the rituals of the rich and the super-rich".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wittstock |first1=Uwe |title=Die Freuden der Zeitlosigkeit |url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2129700/Die-Freuden-der-Zeitlosigkeit.html |
His ''Next World Novella'' gives a poignant insight into the mind of his protagonist, an expert in Chinese studies Hinrich Schepp. Schepp's story begins with the discovery that his wife, Doro, suffered a fatal stroke while editing his manuscript. Her constant fear of death – the 'beyondness' of things (''jenseits'') – compels him to reassess their life together. However, he realizes, too late, that her eloquent criticisms of his forgotten manuscript also bring to light her hidden perception of their married life. As critic Rebecca Morrison explains, Politycki "leavens his grim tale with playful teasing of his reader's expectations".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morrison |first1=Rebecca K. |title=Fiction in Translation |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk |work=TLS |date=25 March 2011}}</ref>
In his
Among Politycki's literary role models – [[Laurence Sterne]], [[Diderot]], [[Gottfried Benn]] and [[Vladimir Nabokov]] – he recently acknowledged [[Ernest Hemingway]] as an important influence for the "simplicity and reduction" of his own writing style.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Heidböhmer |first1=Carsten |title=Der unzeitgemäß Zeitgemäße |url=https://www.stern.de/kultur/buecher/ernest-hemingway-50--todestag--der-unzeitgemaess-zeitgemaesse-3056224.html |
===Essays===
Politycki's new hybrid genre of non-fictional literature became evident in 2015 with his ''42,195'', an autobiographical book about marathon running. His ''Schrecklich schön und weit und wild'' (Fearsomely Beautiful and Far and Wild) in 2017 was described as a "mix of philosophical essay and autobiographical field report" about "the past, present and future of travel".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lauterbach |first1=Burkhart |title=Warum wir reisen und was wir dabei denken |journal=Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2017' |volume=2017 |page=215}}</ref>
Politycki's prolific newspaper articles are collected in two essay editions (1998 and 2007). He has voiced his view of the novel in German literature as an orientation map to the world in ''Relevanter Realismus'', published as ''Was soll der Roman?''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Politycki |first1=Matthias |title=Was soll
===Poetry===
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".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wittstock |first1=Uwe |title=Die Welle reiten bevor sie einen begräbt |url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/article3416375/Die-Welle-reiten-bevor-sie-einen-begraebt.html |
==Awards==
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''Sphärenmusik, Music of the Spheres, Ceol na Sféar. Ausgewählte Gedichte – Selected Poems – Rocha Dánta.'' (2011). (Tr English Hans-Christian Oeser; Gaelige/Irish Gabriel Rosenstock). [[Coiscéim]] Dublin.
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* ''Meine Reise zum Tadsch Mahal'' (2018). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg. {{ISBN|978-3-455-00536-3}}.
* ''Samarkand Samarkand'' (2013). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg. {{ISBN|978-3-455-40443-2}}.
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* ''Aus Fälle / Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman'' (1987). Weismann Verlag, Munich.
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* ''Sämtliche Gedichte 2017–1987'' (2018). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg. {{ISBN|978-3-455-81419-4}}.
* ''Dies irre Geglitzer in deinem Blick. 111 Gedichte.'' (2015). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg. {{ISBN|978-3-455-40506-4}}.
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* ''Im Schatten der Schrift hier. 22 Gedichte'' (1988). Weismann Verlag, Munich.
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* ''Haltung finden. Warum wir sie brauchen und trotzdem nie haben werden.'' (2019). Mit Andreas Urs Sommer. J.B. Metzler, Heidelberg.
* ''Literatur und Politik nach 1968 und in der Gegenwart. Ein Vortrag.'' (2019). Verlag Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn.
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* ''Die Farbe der Vokale. Von der Literatur, den 78ern und dem Gequake satter Frösche'' (1998). Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich.
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* ''Das Gedicht. Nr. 20. Das Beste aus 20 Jahren – und für die nächsten 20 Jahre'' (2012). Jubiliäumsausgabe, mit A. Leitner. Weßling. {{ISBN|978-3-929433-72-2}}.
* ''London, Signale aus der Weltmaschine'' (2011). Corso Verlag, Hamburg. {{ISBN|978-3-86260-015-1}}.
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* ''Hundert notwendige Gedichte. Und ein überflüssiges'' (1992) Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Hamburg, Zurich.
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* ''Umwertung aller Werte? Deutsche Literatur im Urteil Nietzsches'' (1989). De Gruyter, Berlin.
* ''Der frühe Nietzsche und die deutsche Klassik. Studien zu Problemen literarischer Wertung'' (1981). Münchner Hochschulschriften, Straubing.
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* ''42,195. Warum wir Marathon laufen und was wir dabei denken'' (Hörbuch, gelesen von Matthias Politycki). (2015). erlesen.TV GmbH.
* ''Samarkand Samarkand'' (Sprecher: Matthias Politycki). (2013). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg.
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