Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann
Kehlmann at the Leipzig Book Fair, 2009
Born	January 13, 1975 (1975-01-13) (age 36) Munich, Germany
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	German, Austrian
Notable work(s)	Measuring the World

Daniel Kehlmann (born January 13, 1975) is a German language author of both Austrian and German nationality.^[1] His work Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling novel in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. Kehlmann's works, and in particular Die Vermessung der Welt, are heavily influenced by Latin American magical realism and represent a dramatic shift from the goals of the influential Group 47.^[2] He was awarded the Heimito von Doderer prize for the novel.

Life and career

Kehlmann was born in Munich, the son of the television director Michael Kehlmann. He moved to his father's hometown of Vienna at the age of six. At university he read philosophy and literature before doing research for a doctoral thesis on the sublime in the works of Immanuel Kant which he did not finish partly because of his success as a writer.

In 1997 Kehlmann completed his first novel, Beerholms Vorstellung, while still a student. He also wrote numerous reviews and essays while at university, contributing to such organs as: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Literaturen.

In 2001, Kehlmann held the guest lectureship of poetics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. In the winter term of 2005/6 Kehlmann held the lectureship of poetics at the FH Wiesbaden, and in 2006/7 he held the lectureship for poetics at the university of Göttingen. Daniel Kehlmann is a member of the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.

Bibliography

• Beerholms Vorstellung. (novel) Vienna: Deuticke, 1997. ISBN 3-216-30290-3
• Unter der Sonne. (short stories) Vienna: Deuticke, 1998. ISBN 3-216-30363-2
• Mahlers Zeit. (novel) Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1999. ISBN 3-518-41078-4
• Der fernste Ort. (novella) Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001. ISBN 3-518-41265-5
• Ich und Kaminski (Me and Kaminski). (novel) Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2003. ISBN 3-518-41395-3
• Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World). (novel) Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2005. ISBN 3-498-03528-2
• Wo ist Carlos Montúfar? (essays) Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2005. ISBN 3-499-24139-0
• Ruhm: Ein Roman in neun Geschichten (Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes). Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2009. ISBN 3-498-03543-3

References

1. ^ Interview with Kehlmann in the Tagesspiegel
2. ^ The Guardian Luke Harding: "Unlikely bestseller heralds the return of lightness and humour to German literature", 19 July 2006, p.21.

External links

• Daniel Kehlmann's "Ruhm", review on the website of the Goethe-Institut, January 2009.
• Reading Daniel Kehlmann , by Arnon Gunberg. Words Without Borders, 6 April 2009
• "Humboldt's Gift", The Nation, 30 April 2007.
• Audio: Kehlmann reading and discussing "Fame" Center for the Art of Translation

See also: Kehlmann

Persondata
Name	Kehlmann, Daniel
Alternative names
Short description	Author
Date of birth	1975-01-13
Place of birth	Munich, Germany
Date of death
Place of death