Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann (German: [ˈdaːniːɛl ˈkeːlˌman] (listen); born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.[1] His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best-selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. According to The New York Times, it was the world's second best-selling novel in 2006.[2] All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's Spiegel bestseller list and were translated into English. He collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Paul Reitter on Franzen's 2013 book The Kraus Project. Kehlmann's play The Mentor, translated by Christopher Hampton, opened at Theatre Royal, Bath, in April 2017 starring F. Murray Abraham and transferred to the London West End in July 2017.[3] In October 2017, his play Christmas Eve, also translated by Christopher Hampton, premiered at the Theatre Royal.[4] His novella You Should Have Left was adapted into a movie starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.[5] Kehlmann's highly praised novel Tyll, which sold more than 600.000 copies in German alone[6] and was published the US in February 2020,[7] is currently being adapted into a TV series for Netflix by the makers of Dark.[8] Kehlmann's play Die Reise der Verlorenen was adapted for BBC radio by Tom Stoppard under the title The Voyage of the St. Louis.

Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann, Frankfurt Book Fair 2017
Born (1975-01-13) 13 January 1975
Munich, Germany
OccupationWriter
NationalityGerman, Austrian
Notable works
Website
www.kehlmann.com

Life and career

Kehlmann was born in Munich, the son of the television director Michael Kehlmann and the actress Dagmar Mettler.[9] His family moved to his father's hometown Vienna at the age of six. Kehlmann is partially of Jewish ancestry[10] and currently lives in New York City and Berlin.[11]

Since 2015, Kehlmann has successively held the Eberhard Berent Chair at New York University. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

2016-2017 he was a fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars.[12]

The novel Tyll made it onto the shortlist of the International Booker Prize.

Kehlmann also works as a screenwriter and wrote the script for the TV film Das letzte Problem. He adapted Thomas Mann's novel Confessions of Felix Krull for an upcoming movie.

Awards and honors

Books available in English

Filmography

References
  1. Interview with Kehlmann in the Tagesspiegel.
  2. Hoffman, Jascha. "DATA; COMPARATIVE LITERATURE". query.nytimes.com.
  3. "The Mentor to transfer to the West End - WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com.
  4. "Niamh Cusack and Patrick Baladi to star in Christmas Eve - WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com.
  5. McNary, Dave (7 June 2018). "Amanda Seyfried Joins Kevin Bacon Thriller 'You Should Have Left'". Variety.
  6. GmbH, DWDL de. ""Dark"-Macher verfilmen Kehlmann-Roman "Tyll" als Serie". DWDL.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  7. "Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann: 9781524747466 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  8. "Today at Frankfurter Buchmesse: Netflix's Kelly Luegenbiehl's CEO Talk". Publishing Perspectives. 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  9. "Contemporary Authors Online". Literature Resource Center (Subscription from EBSCO required). 2015. Retrieved 26 Mar 2019.
  10. Herschthal, Eric. "Waiting For The Right Holocaust Angle". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com.
  11. https://www.zeit.de/campus/2018/02/daniel-kehlmann-nazis-universitaeten-diskussionen-meinungsfreiheit.
  12. "Past Fellows 1999-2018". The New York Public Library.
  13. "Autor Daniel Kehlmann erhält Anton-Wildgans-Preis 2019". orf.at. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
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