Occupation Novelist Role Author Awards Kleist Prize Name Daniel Kehlmann Movies Measuring the World | Education University of Vienna Nationality German, Austrian Parents Michael Kehlmann | |
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Born 13 January 1975 (age 49)
Munich, West Germany ( 1975-01-13 ) Books Measuring the World, Fame, Me and Kaminski, F: A Novel, Beerholms Vorstellung Similar People Michael Kehlmann, Detlev Buck, Claus Boje, Thomas Olah, Udo Kramer | ||
Notable works Measuring the World | ||
Daniel kehlmann fame and the writer pen world festival may 2012
Daniel Kehlmann (born 13 January 1975) is a German-language author of both Austrian and German nationality. 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 magical realism and represent a dramatic shift from the goals of the influential Group 47. He was awarded the Heimito von Doderer Prize for the novel.
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- Daniel kehlmann fame and the writer pen world festival may 2012
- Daniel kehlmann on facing the blank page
- Life and career
- Awards and honors
- References
Daniel kehlmann on facing the blank page
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. Since 2015, Daniel Kehlmann has also successively held the Eberhard Berent Goethe Chair at New York University, lecturing on war literature, Heinrich von Kleist, and Heimito von Doderer. Daniel Kehlmann is also a member of the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.