Andreas Mand

{{Short description|German author}}

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| occupation = Novelist, playwright,
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| education = Magister in Media Studies

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| period = 1982–present

| genre = Novels, short stories,
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| subject = Personal life

| movement = contemporary literature

| notableworks = Child of father (Vaterkind), {{ISBN|3-7017-1262-X}}.

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Andreas Mand (born 14 December 1959[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93019228.html author Andreas Mand] Retrieved 13 December 2011) is a German contemporary author of novels, short stories and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German Popular literature,[http://www.perlentaucher.de/autoren/8201/Andreas_Mand.html Andreas Mand at perlentaucher.de] Retrieved 13 December 2011 (German)

and in addition a stay-at-home dad, because he wanted to be an active part of his children's lives.

Education and life

Andreas Mand was born in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as the son of a parson.[http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/mand.htm Andreas Mand at lyrikwelt.de] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429111108/http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/mand.htm |date=29 April 2012 }} Retrieved 13 December 2011 (German)
After elementary school he attended the Fichte- Gymnasium Krefeld. Then he studied at the University of Osnabrück and attained the Magister degree in Media Studies. Later he lived for a while in Berlin and Duisburg. Several years he has been working as a stay at home father, and only wrote in his leisure, while his wife works outside of the home. Sometimes, the role of stay-at-home dad was difficult for him, because in Germany, this practice is less common. Mand is working and living in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Work

= Novels =

  • 1982 Walks away. A school article (Haut ab. Ein Schulaufatz), Nemo Press, Hamburg, {{ISBN|3-922513-09-3}}
  • 1984 Internal unrests (Innere Unruhen), Kellner-Verlag, Hamburg, {{ISBN|3-922035-27-2}}.
  • 1990 Grovers invention (Grovers Erfindung), List-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, {{ISBN|3-612-65032-7}}.
  • 1992 The dream of the Konditor (Der Traum des Konditors), Unabhängige Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, {{ISBN|3-86172-029-9}}.
  • 1993 Grover at the lake (Grover am See), 2. Aufl. MaroVerlag, Augsburg, {{ISBN|3-87512-213-5}}.
  • 1994 Peng, Edition Solitude, Stuttgart, {{ISBN|3-929085-13-5}}.
  • 1994 The red ship, (Das rote Schiff), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, {{ISBN|3-87512-225-9}}.
  • 1996 Small Town heroes, (Kleinstadthelden), Ammann Verlag, Zurich, {{ISBN|3-250-10292-X}}.
  • 1998 Cataloguing of childhood memories:[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0016-8777.2006.00352.x/abstract Anxiety and the Archive: Constructing Value and Identity in the Pop-Lit Novels Soloalbum and Generation Golf] in German Life and Letters, Volume 59, Retrieved 1 October 2016 The great Groverbook, (Das Große Grover Buch), Ammann Verlag, Zurich, {{ISBN|3-250-60016-4}}.
  • 2001 Child of father (Vaterkind), Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg, {{ISBN|3-7017-1262-X}}.
  • 2004 Bad night-narrative (Schlechtenachtgeschichte), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, {{ISBN|3-87512-272-0}}.
  • 2006 Paul and the Beatmashine (Paul und die Beatmaschine), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, {{ISBN|978-3-87512-278-7}}.
  • 2015 The second Garden (Der zweite Garten), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, {{ISBN|978-3-87512-471-2}}.[http://www.rollingstone.de/reviews/andreas-mand-der-zweite-garten/ The second Garden] at the german edition of Rolling Stone, Retrieved 17 April 2016 (German)

= Short stories and essays =

  • 2009 Fairport Convention in: Rock Stories: Fifty short stories about music and their significance,[http://www.musikansich.de/artikel.php?id=807 Fairport Convention] Retrieved 12 December 2011 (German) Verlag Langen Müller, {{ISBN|978-3-7844-3195-6}}
  • 2011 Essay in: Rumba with the Rum drunkards (Rumba mit den Rumsäufern), Frank Schäfer, Oktoberverlag Münster, {{ISBN|978-3-941895-14-0}}
  • 2011 Short stories in: Hyde Park-Memories. A music club of Osnabrück and the history (stories) (Hyde Park-Memories. Ein Osnabrücker Musikclub und seine Geschichte(n)),[http://www.oktoberverlag.de/index2.php?rubr=9&id=96 Hyde Park-Memories] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406033937/http://www.oktoberverlag.de/index2.php?rubr=9&id=96 |date=6 April 2012 }} Retrieved 13 December 2011 (German) Harald Keller/Reiner Wolf, Oktoberverlag Münster, {{ISBN|978-3-941895-16-4}}

= Plays =

  • 2010 The Grover game (Das Grover Spiel) and Practice room eternity (Proberaum Ewigkeit), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, {{ISBN|978-3-87512-289-3}}.

= Compact Disc =

  • Some time from 1984 to 1989 he was singer-songwriter of his own band of musicians that plays popular music and
    in 2007 he published a Demo Compact Disc Popmusik: A little file[https://www.maroverlag.de/book.php?id=195&PHPSESSID=d4ebe75cc3c6597b0806df00e06da1b9 CD A little file] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630010539/https://www.maroverlag.de/book.php?id=195&PHPSESSID=bd2eb7af8f08286ddf9b6cccc0983832 |date=30 June 2013 }} Retrieved 13 December 2011 (German) (Eine kleine Feile), which today can probably be attributed to the musical movement Hamburger Schule.
  • Siebenkäs songs (Siebenkäs-Lieder), based on the novel Siebenkäs, by Jean Paul (Demo, 2 tapes), 1998[https://www.helveticarchives.ch/detail.aspx?ID=778693 Siebenkäs songs at Helvetic Archives], Swiss National Library, Retrieved 10 October 2016.

Awards

  • 1992 Literary award of Lower Rhine
  • 1996 Nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize[http://archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at/25_jahre/1996/autoren_1996.htm Ingeborg Bachmann Prize] – Nominated authors 1996 (ORF), Retrieved 10 October 2016
  • 2000 Candide Preis

See also

{{Portal bar|Germany|Literature|Poetry|Theatre}}

References

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