Gunther Geltinger
„Mensch Engel”
novel, Schöffling & Co.
„Mensch Engel”
Leonard Engel has reached a vital moment in his life: The beloved childhood in the region Mainfranken is the past, A-levels are passed, the future is full of opportunities, but his first love to his friend Markus is rapidly replaced by a great void and the feeling, that something „is fundamentally wrong with him”. Fleeing from erotic confusion and staged excesses, hestarts studying in Vienna, where intrigues of his fellow in misery Feline pushes him into the arms of the young male prostitute Tiago. Nor a jump into the river Donau, nor visiting his sister in the South of France provides him an escape from the nightmare he is living in. Meeting Boris ends his restless surch for an aim. Possesed of the idea to recover his life with this person, he starts to write down his history.
A passionate self-portrait of the young man is created, who seeks for the truth likewise among humans, the animal kingdom, as well as the world of the angels. By the way he tells, why life actually is a test, that cannot be passed, and if it can, only with the help of literature.
The novel „Mensch Engel” is the powerfully eloquent debut of Gunther Geltinger, which convinces with its virtuoso play with different narrator voices, questioning the credibility of memories and the consistent way of telling a biography: „ All these histories are so, bu none is true.”
Announcement
Reading „Mensch Engel” 22nd August 2008 at 9 pm in the KAP-Forum.
„The Sea”
Gerriet K. Sharma: Das Meer (live mit Sprecher Simon Roden)
Audio play for narrators and electroacoustic instrumentation.
Sound Composition: Gerriet K. Sharma
Text: Gunther Geltinger
Narrator: Simon T. Roden
Guest (HD): Georgette Dee
The Sea is a three-part literate-musical narrative. Focus of each episode is the Mediterranean Sea, destination of an individual journey, where cultural borders, ego restrictions and the desire to overcome personal barriers arise.
Announcement:
Reading session of the radio play „The Sea”, 16th August 2008 at 9 pm at the Bay-Biergarten in the Yachthafen, Harry-Blum-Platz.
Vita
| 1974 | Geboren |
| 2003- 2006 |
Postgraduiertenstudium an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln |
| 1996- 2002 |
Studium Drehbuch und Dramaturgie an der Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Abteilung Film und Fernsehen |
| 1995-
1996 |
Studium angewandte Theaterwissenschaften an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
Awards and Grants
| 2007 | Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Stipendium der Stadt Köln |
| 2006 | Teilnahme an der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin |
| 2004 | Literaturpreis der schwulen Buchläden |
Publications
| 2008 | Mensch Engel, Roman, Verlag Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt a. Main |
| 2008 | Auszug aus Mensch Engel, in: Macondo - Die Lust am Lesen, Heft Nr.19 |
| 2007 | Auszug aus Mensch Engel, in: Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, Heft 181 |
| 2005 | Leben 200 Meter, Erzählung, in: Im Paradies, Anthologie, Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg |
Radio Plays
| 2006 | Das Meer, CD, 33 Min., Musik: Gerriet K.Sharma, Sprecher: Simon T. Roden, Georgette Dee |
| 2004 | RISS, CD, 48 Min., Musik: Gerriet K. Sharma, Sprecher: Simon T. Roden, Georgette Dee, Produktion: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln |
Reading Sessions
Literaturhaus Köln, Lesebühne Köln, Leipziger Buchmesse, Treptowers Berlin u.a.