Max Czollek

Max Czollek (born 6 May 1987) is a German lyric-poet, writer and stage performer. He is a member of the "G13" authors' collective.[1][2]

Max Czollek
Reading at the Lyrik Kabinett
 Kritzolina, Munich, 2016

Life

Max Czollek was born in Berlin where he attended the Jewish Upper School Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn (JGMM), passing his school finals (Abitur) in 2006. During his time at school he took a year abroad in Texas.[1] Between 2007 and 2012 he studied political sciences at Berlin. Then, from 2012 till 2016 he worked on his doctorate at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (TU Berlin) and at Birkbeck, University of London. He was supported with a stipend from the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund.[3] Since 2016 he has been a member of the producers' collective "Jalta – Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart" ("Yalta - Positions on the Jewish Present").[4]

Czollek has been part of the lyric-poetry collective G13 since 2009. In 2013 he initiated the international "Babelsprech" lyric-poetry project, in order to network a young German language "lyric scene".[5]

Since the 2013/2014 he has teamed up with the novelist Deniz Utlu to organise the literature series "Gegenwartsbewältigung"[note 1] at the Maxim Gorki Theater (Studio Я). Together with "Sasha"/"Саша" Marianna Salzmann he was co-instigator of the "Disintegration Congress" (2016)[6] on contemporary Jewish thinking and of the "Radical Jewish Arts Days" ("Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage" 2017).[7] During 2016/2017 he was co-leader with Esra Kücük of the Maxim Gorki Theater's "Young Berlin Council" project.[8]

Notes
  1. a wordplay with Vergangenheitsbewältigung, loosely "struggle to overcome the [negatives of the] present" (instead of past)

References
  1. Christine Schmitt (13 July 2006). "Max, der Denker". Philosophie und Ausland: Wie ein junger Mann an der Jüdischen Oberschule ein Einser-Abi schaffte (in German). Jüdische Allgemeine, Berlin. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. "Dichter am Erfolg". Mit Jan Wagner war erstmals ein Lyriker für den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse nominiert. In der Lyrikszene sorgt das für Aufregung – nicht nur im Positiven. (in German). taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH , Berlin. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  3. Max Czollek (18 May 2016). "Das Antisemitismus-Dispositiv" (in German). Academia.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. "Jalta – Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart" (in German). Neofelis Verlag GmbH , Berlin. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  5. "Babelsprech International" (in German). Literaturbrücke Berlin e. V. Archived from the original on 30 January 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  6. "Desintegration". Ein Kongress zeitgenössischer jüdischer Positionen kuratiert von Max Czollek und Sasha Marianna Salzmann (in German). Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  7. "Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage" (in German). Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  8. "Open Call zum Jungen Berliner Rat" (in German). Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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