Uwe Timm

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Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm (2013)
Born	(1940-03-30) March 30, 1940 Hamburg, Germany
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	German
Education	Ph.D. in German literature
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Period	1971–present
Notable work(s)	Am Beispiel meines Bruders, Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel,
Notable award(s)	Heinrich Böll Prize 2009 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 1990
Spouse(s)	Dagmar Ploetz
Children	four, each of them is dedicated with one novel

Uwe Timm (* 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer.

Life and work

Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943. Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel In my brother's shadow.

After working as a furrier, Timm studied Philosophy and German in Munich and Paris, achieving a Ph.D. in German literature in 1971 with his thesis: The Problem of Absurdity in the Works of Albert Camus. During his studies, Timm was engaged in leftist activities of the 1960s. He became a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was associated with Benno Ohnesorg. From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the German Communist Party. Three times Timm has been called as a writer-in-residence to several universities in English-speaking countries: in 1981 to the University of Warwick, in 1994 to Swansea and in 1997 to the Washington University in St. Louis. He has also been a lecturer at universities in Paderborn, Darmstadt, Lüneburg and Frankfurt.

Timm started publishing in the early 1970s and became known to a larger audience in Germany after one of his children's books, Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel, was turned into a movie. Today he is one of the most successful contemporary authors in Germany. His books Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (The Invention of Curried Sausage) and Am Beispiels meines Bruders (In my brother's shadow) can both be found on the syllabi of German schools. His readers usually appreciate Timm's writing style, which he himself calls "die Ästhetik des Alltags" ("the aesthetics of everyday life").^[1] Timm imitates everyday storytelling by using everyday vocabulary and simple sentences and generally tries to imitate the way stories are orally told. His works often indirectly link with each other by taking up minor characters from one story and making this character the main character of another work. For example, a minor character like Frau Brücker from Johannisnacht is taken up as a main character in his book Die Entdeckung der Currywurst. Timm's works also tend to have autobiographical features and often deal with the German past or are set in the German past.^[2]

Awards

1995 Bavarian Film Award, Best Young People's Film^[3]
1990 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel
2009 Heinrich-Böll-Preis

Bibliography

Widersprüche, Poems (1971)
Heißer Sommer (1974)
Wolfenbüttlerstr. 57, Poems (1977)
Morenga (1978)
Kerbels Flucht (1980)
Die deutschen Kolonien, Photo book (1981)
Die Zugmaus, Children's book (1981)
Die Piratenamsel, Children's book (1983)
Der Mann auf dem Hochrad, Children's book (1984)
Der Schlangenbaum (1986)
Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel, Children's book (1989)
Vogel, friss die Feige nicht (1989)
Der Kopfjäger (1991)
Die Piratenamsel, Children's book (1991)
Erzählen und kein Ende, A collection of speeches (1993)
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (1993)
Der Schatz auf Pagensand (1995)
Johannisnacht (1996)
Nicht morgen, nicht gestern, Short stories (1999)
Rot, novel (2001), awarded the 2003 Schubart-Literaturpreis^[4]
Am Beispiel meines Bruders (2003)
Der Freund und der Fremde (2005)
Halbschatten (2008)
Freitisch (2011)

English translations

The Snake Tree, 1989
Headhunter, 1994
The Invention of Curried Sausage, 1995
Midsummer Night, 1998
Morenga, 2003
In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS, 2005

References

↑ Erzählen und kein Ende, A collection of speeches (1993)
↑ Hanjo Kersting, Axel Ruckaberle: "Uwe Timm", Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG), Köln 2004.
↑ "Preistraeger des Bayerischen Filmpreises". Retrieved March 20, 2012.
↑ City of Aalen. Schubart-Literaturpreis winners. Retrieved 14 October 2012. (German)

http://www.dtv.de/_google/autoren/autor21.htm (German)
http://www.litrix.de/autoren/autor/uwetimm/enindex.htm
David Basker: Uwe Timm, Cardiff 1999 (Contemporary German Writers).
Hanjo Kersting, Axel Ruckaberle: "Uwe Timm", Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG), Köln 2004.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 9869380 LCCN: n50012721 ISNI: 0000 0001 0868 6156 GND: 118839276 BNF: cb120604959 NDL: 01000877 NKC: jn19990008546

Persondata
Name	Timm, Uwe
Alternative names
Short description	German writer
Date of birth	30 March 1940
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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