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<b>Klaus Modick</b> (born 3 May 1951) is a German author and literary translator.<sup id="cite_ref-www.literaturport.de_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.literaturport.de-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_early_career">Education and early career</h2></div>
<p>Klaus Modick was born in <a href="Oldenburg_(city)" title="Oldenburg (city)">Oldenburg</a> and completed his secondary education at the Altes Gymnasium there in 1971. He then attended <a href="University_of_Hamburg" title="University of Hamburg">Hamburg University</a>, where he read German, History and Educational Theory, completing his teaching qualification in 1977. Modick then took a doctorate in 1980, with a thesis on the German-Jewish novelist and playwright <a href="Lion_Feuchtwanger" title="Lion Feuchtwanger">Lion Feuchtwanger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-www.literaturport.de_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.literaturport.de-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Modick spent five years as an advertising copywriter and worked as a part-time lecturer in German literature in the higher education sector before becoming a freelance writer and translator in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-Deutschlandradio_Kultur_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deutschlandradio_Kultur-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1984 he married an American citizen he met during one of his frequent visits to Crete and they have two daughters. Modick has said that he feels a special affinity with Crete and its people and in 2003 he published the novel <i>Der kretische Gast,</i> set in 1943 during the <a href="Fortress_Crete" title="Fortress Crete">German occupation of Crete</a><i>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-Deutschlandradio_Kultur_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deutschlandradio_Kultur-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Truschke_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Truschke-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Established_writer">Established writer</h2></div>
<p>From 1986 to 1992 Modick wrote a monthly column on paperbacks for <a href="Die_Zeit" title="Die Zeit">Die Zeit</a> and from 1997 to 2002 for <a href="Die_Tageszeitung" title="Die Tageszeitung">Die Tageszeitung</a>. He has held a number of guest lectureships in Germany, the US and Japan (<a href="#Guest_lectureships">see below</a>). He is a member of <a href="PEN_Centre_Germany" title="PEN Centre Germany">PEN Centre Germany</a> and has received numerous <a href="#Awards">awards</a>.
</p><p>Modick returned to live in Oldenburg in 2000 after spending several years abroad, including a year in Rome and another in Paris and 'three to four years' in the USA.<sup id="cite_ref-Truschke_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Truschke-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the literary commission of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and the Arts, having previously received a number of awards from this body.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Modick is also an essayist and literary critic and has published several volumes of non-fiction writings including <i>Das Stellen der Schrift</i>, <i>Milder Rausch</i> and <i>Ein Bild und tausend Worte</i>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States_themes">United States themes</h2></div>
<p>Many of Modick's novels are concerned with German–American themes, for example, <i>Die Schatten der Ideen,</i> which tells the story of a German historian who emigrates to the US in 1935 and later finds himself swept up in the witch-hunts of the <a href="McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthy Era</a>. Other exile-themed novels include <i>Sunset</i>, which tells of the friendship between <a href="Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a> and <a href="Lion_Feuchtwanger" title="Lion Feuchtwanger">Lion Feuchtwanger</a> whilst in Los Angeles in the early 1940s. <i>Sunset</i> was nominated in 2011 for the <a href="German_Book_Prize" title="German Book Prize">German Book Prize</a> and the <a href="Wilhelm_Raabe_Literature_Prize" title="Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize">Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work_as_a_translator">Work as a translator</h2></div>
<p>As a literary translator Modick has translated numerous English-language works into German including works by <a href="Aravind_Adiga" title="Aravind Adiga">Aravind Adiga</a>, <a href="Sebastian_Faulks" title="Sebastian Faulks">Sebastian Faulks</a>, <a href="William_Gaddis" title="William Gaddis">William Gaddis</a>, <a href="William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a>, <a href="Sudhir_Kakar" title="Sudhir Kakar">Sudhir Kakar</a>, <a href="Victor_LaValle" title="Victor LaValle">Victor LaValle</a>, <a href="Andrew_Motion" title="Andrew Motion">Andrew Motion</a>, <a href="Jeffrey_Moore" title="Jeffrey Moore">Jeffrey Moore</a>, <a href="John_O'Hara" title="John O'Hara">John O'Hara</a>, <a href="Robert_Olmstead" title="Robert Olmstead">Robert Olmstead</a>, <a href="Matt_Rees" title="Matt Rees">Matt Beynon Rees</a>, <a href="Charles_Simmons_(author)" title="Charles Simmons (author)">Charles Simmons</a>, <a href="Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a> and <a href="Nathanael_West" title="Nathanael West">Nathanael West</a>.
</p><p>Despite his high reputation in the German-speaking world and prolific output, Modick was not translated into English until 2020, when his novella <i>Moos</i>, translated by David Herman, was published under the title <i>Moss</i> by Bellevue Literary Press, New York, NY. A number of his works have English titles, reflecting the time Modick spent in the US.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bestseller">Bestseller</h2></div>
<p>Modick's 2015 novel <i>Konzert ohne Dichter</i>, which tells of the difficult relationship between artist <a href="Heinrich_Vogeler" title="Heinrich Vogeler">Heinrich Vogeler</a> and poet <a href="Rainer_Maria_Rilke" title="Rainer Maria Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a> in 1905, became an almost immediate bestseller on publication.
</p><p>Modick has enjoyed great critical acclaim in the German-speaking world.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Moos</i> (novella). Haffmans, Zürich 1984 <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">
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<li><i>Moss</i> (A novel). Translated by David Herman. Bellevue Literaray Press. New York. NY 2020 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-942658-72-6</bdi></li>
<li><i>Ins Blaue</i> (novel). Machwerk, Siegen 1985 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-499-15871-1</bdi></li>
<li><i>Das Grau der Karolinen</i> (novel). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1986 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-498-04295-0</bdi></li>
<li><i>Weg war weg: Romanverschnitt</i> (novel). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1988, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-89598-518-8</bdi></li>
<li><i>Das Stellen der Schrift</i> (essays). Affholderbach & Strohmann, Siegen 1988 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-922524-64-9</bdi></li>
<li><i>Die Schrift vom Speicher</i> (novel). Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1991 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-627-10120-6</bdi></li>
<li><i>Der Schatten, den die Hand wirft</i> (sonnets). Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1991 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-627-10121-3</bdi></li>
<li><i>Das Licht in den Steinen</i> (novel). Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1992 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-596-11760-4</bdi></li>
<li><i>Der Flügel</i> (novel). Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1994, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-596-12969-0</bdi></li>
<li><i>Das Kliff</i> (novel). Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1995 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>3-89561-021-6</bdi></li>
<li><i>Der Mann im Mast</i> (novel). Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1997, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-492-24757-3</bdi></li>
<li><i>Erste Lieben & andere Peinlichkeiten: Oldenburger Geschichten</i> (short stories). Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1997, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-89598-438-9</bdi></li>
<li><i>Milder Rausch</i> (essays and portraits). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-8218-0841-3</bdi></li>
<li><i>Vierundzwanzig Türen</i> (novel). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-423-20573-3</bdi></li>
<li><i>September Song</i> (novel). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-7632-5383-8</bdi></li>
<li><i>Der kretische Gast</i> (novel). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2003, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-492-24206-6</bdi></li>
<li><i>Vatertagebuch</i>, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-423-20573-3</bdi></li>
<li><i>Bestseller</i> (novel). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-492-25218-8</bdi></li>
<li><i>Die Schatten der Ideen</i> (novel). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-492-25443-4</bdi></li>
<li><i>Krumme Touren</i> (short stories). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2010 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-8218-0880-2</bdi></li>
<li><i>Sunset</i> (novel). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2011, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-8218-6117-3</bdi></li>
<li><i>Klack</i> (novel). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2013, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-462-04515-4</bdi></li>
<li><i>Konzert ohne Dichter</i> (novel). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2015, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-462-04741-7</bdi></li>
<li><i>Ein Bild und tausend Worte. Die Entstehungsgeschichte von "Konzert ohne Dichter" und andere Essays</i>, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2016, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-462-04926-8</bdi></li>
<li><i>Keyserlings Geheimnis</i> (novel). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2018, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-462-05156-8</bdi></li>
<li><i>Leonard Cohen</i> (novella). KIWI Musikbibliothek Band 5. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2020. ISBN 978-3-462-05380-7.</li>
<li><i>Fahrtwind</i> (novel). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2021. ISBN 978-3-462-00130-3.</li>
<li><i>Nachlese. Hundert Bücher – Ein Jahrhundert</i>. (literary criticism) Onomato. . Düsseldorf 2024. ISBN 978-3-949899-22-5.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2></div>
<p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-www.literaturport.de_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.literaturport.de-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>1986 Hamburger Literaturförderpreis</li>
<li>1989 Art Prize (Literature) Lower Saxony</li>
<li>1990/91 Stipendium of the <a href="Villa_Massimo" title="Villa Massimo">Villa Massimo</a>, Rom</li>
<li>1993/94 Stipendium of the <a href="Cit%C3%A9_internationale_des_arts" title="Cité internationale des arts">Cité internationale des arts</a>, Paris</li>
<li>1994 <a href="Bettina-von-Arnim-Preis" title="Bettina-von-Arnim-Preis">Bettina-von-Arnim-Preis</a></li>
<li>1996 Writer in Residence, University of Poitiers</li>
<li>1998 Annual Stipendium in Literature, Lower Saxony</li>
<li>2000 Märkischer Autorenpreis</li>
<li>2005 <a href="Nicolas_Born_Prize" title="Nicolas Born Prize">Nicolas Born Prize</a></li>
<li>2006 Elba-Stipendium Thyll-Dürr-Stiftung</li>
<li>2007/08 Stipendium Deutscher Literaturfonds</li>
<li>2009 Stipendium <a href="Villa_Aurora" title="Villa Aurora">Villa Aurora</a> / Los Angeles</li>
<li>2012 Writer in residence, Heinrich-Böll-Cottage, <a href="Achill_Island" title="Achill Island">Achill Island</a>, Ireland<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2013 Stipendium Deutscher Literaturfonds</li>
<li>2015 <a href="Rheingau_Literatur_Preis" title="Rheingau Literatur Preis">Rheingau Literatur Preis</a> for <i>Konzert ohne Dichter</i></li>
<li>2015 Poet in residence, University of Duisburg-Essen</li>
<li>2020 <a href="Hannelore_Greve_Literature_Prize" title="Hannelore Greve Literature Prize">Hannelore Greve Literature Prize</a><sup id="cite_ref-DIE_WELT_2020_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DIE_WELT_2020-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Guest_lectureships">Guest lectureships</h2></div>
<p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-www.literaturport.de_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.literaturport.de-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>1992 Writer in Residence, Keio-University, Tokyo</li>
<li>1994 to 2005 Guest professor, Middlebury College, Vermont/US</li>
<li>1995 Guest professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire/US</li>
<li>1996 to 2002 Lecturer in Poetry, Creative Writing, University of Bielefeld</li>
<li>1996 Writer in Residence, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania/US</li>
<li>1998 to 1999 Guest professor, German Literature Institute Leipzig</li></ul>
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<ul><li>David-Christopher Assmann & Eva Geulen: <i>Zur gesellschaftlichen Lage der Literatur (mit einer Fallstudie zu Klaus Modick)</i>, in: WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 9 (2012), Vol. 2, pp. 18–46.</li>
<li>Dirk Frank: <i>Narrative Gedankenspiele. Der metafiktionale Roman zwischen Modernismus und Postmodernismus</i>. Wiesbaden 2001.</li>
<li>Sabine Jambon: <i>Moos, Störfall und abruptes Ende</i>, Düsseldorf 1999</li>
<li><i>Von Lust und Last literarischen Schreibens. Ein Blick in die Werkstatt deutscher Scriftsteller</i>. Klaus Modick and Helmut Mörchen, Eichborn 2001 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-8218-0888-8</bdi></li>
<li>Helmut Mörchen: <i>Klaus Modick – ein Gegenwartsautor, den man kennen sollte</i>. Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Volume 5/2011.</li>
<li>Josua Novak: <i>Der postmoderne komische Roman</i>. Marburg 2009.</li>
<li>Harry Nutt: <i>Tiefbohrungen ins Blaue. Über den Schriftsteller Klaus Modick</i>. Merkur 11/1988.</li>
<li>Janina Richts: <i>Inszenierungen von Autor-Kritiker-Verhältnissen in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur</i>. München 2009.</li>
<li>Ralf Schnell: <i>Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1945</i>. Stuttgart 2005.</li>
<li>Bernd Stenzig: <i>Rilke und Vogeler: Irreführungen in Klaus Modicks "Konzert ohne Dichter"</i>. Karl-Robert Schütze, Berlin 2015, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-928589-31-4</bdi></li>
<li>Hubert Winkels: <i>Postmoderne leicht gemacht – Klaus Modick und die Rückkehr der Familie</i>. In: Hubert Winkels: <i>Kann man Bücher lieben?</i> Köln 2010.</li>
<li>Dieter Wrobel: <i>Postmodernes Chaos – Chaotische Postmoderne. Eine Studie zu Analogien zwischen Chaostheorie und deutschsprachiger Prosa der Postmoderne</i>. Bielefeld 1998.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.literaturatlas.de/~lf2/menue3/seite1.html">An interview in German with Modick about his life & work:</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.literaturport.de/Klaus.Modick/">A brief biography:</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=115592695">A list of materials by and about Klaus Modick in the German National Library:</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/von-roman-zu-roman.1153.de.html?dram:article_id=182464">A transcribed interview in German with Klaus Modick, dated 03/05/2011:</a></li></ul>
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