Frank Goosen

Frank Goosen at the Kölner Treff , 2012

Frank Goosen (born May 31, 1966 in Bochum ) is a German cabaret artist and novelist .

Life

Frank Goosen grew up as an only child on Alleestrasse in Bochum. His father was a self-employed electrician with a small company. In 1976 he came to the grammar school on Ostring . During the C, B and A youth he played handball at VfL Bochum. After graduating from high school in Ostring in 1986, he studied history, German and politics until 1992 at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

From 1992 to 2000 he performed together with Jochen Malmsheimer as Duo Tresenlesen with great success, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia. The duo won the Audience Award Applause & Booed at the Prix ​​Pantheon in 1997 and the Salzburg Bull in 1998 . After differences, the counter readers were disbanded .

Since then, Goosen has been a successful novelist and solo cabaret artist. His topics are above all the sensitivities of his generation, but also the Ruhr area, its people and peculiarities as well as the topic of football. Since 2007 he has published humorous columns and essays, including a. in the kicker sports magazine and in the stadium newspaper of VfL Bochum , which appears for every home game.

His novel Learning to Lie was established in 2003 filmed . The short story collection Radio Heimat was filmed with borrowings from his novel Mein Ich und seine Leben and was released in German cinemas in 2016. His novel So much time was in 2018 by Philipp Kadelbach with Jan Josef Liefers , Matthias Bundschuh , Jürgen Vogel , Richy Müller and Armin Rohde filmed .

Goosen was a board member of the sponsoring association of the Prinzregenttheater .

In October 2010 Goosen was elected to the supervisory board of VfL Bochum . In December 2017 he resigned his mandate because of "fundamentally different ideas about [...] cooperation".

Since 2012 Goosen has been regularly presenting new book releases in “Goosens Neue Bücher” at the Schauspielhaus Bochum in a “Literature Late Night Show” together with Markus Henrik.

With Förster, mein Förster (2016), Goosen wrote, according to Burkhard Müller , "a somewhat slow but charming novel about men at beer". In 2019, No wonder, the history of the characters from Förster, mein Förster about their youth during the turning point, appeared. In 2020 his book Frank Goosen about The Beatles was published , in which he and his favorite band set out to search for clues in his own childhood, youth and in Liverpool.

He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Goosen lives in Bochum with his wife and two sons.

Works

CD publications with bar reading

• Günther (1995)
• Raw Feast (1996)
• The eye reads with (2CD) (1997)
• Kloidt Ze Di Penussen! (1998)
• Graceful & Inexpensive (1999)
• Werkschau 1993-2000 (2000) (box set, limited to 300 copies)

Novels and short stories

• Learn to lie . Roman, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000 [1] , ISBN 3-8218-0854-3 .
• Pokorny laughs. Roman, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-8218-0918-3 .
• Me and his life. Stories, Eichborn-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-8218-0921-3 .
• Fritz Walter, Kaiser Franz and us. Our world championships. Stories, various authors (2004), ISBN 3-8218-4884-7 .
• Pink moon. , Roman, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-0919-1 .
• Six silver strings - A Christmas story , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-8218-4963-8 .
• So much time. Roman, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-8218-0920-5 .
• Because it's Saturday. Football stories. Stories, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-6046-6 .
• Radio home. Stories from home. Stories, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6072-5 .
• Summer party. Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04386-0 .
• Rocket men. Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04620-5 .
• Forester, my forester. Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04892-6 .
• No wonder. Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05254-1 .
• Frank Goosen on The Beatles. Roman, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05406-4 .

Solo programs on CD

• Always kill your darlings or just kidding (1999) (live)
• Crib blues (2000) (live)
• Indiscreet Funny Stories (2001)
• A40 - Tales From Here (2007) (live)
• Real leather (2008)
• Christmas is somewhere else too - Krippenblues Reloaded (2010) (live)
• What's going on there? - Stories live (2018) (live)

Audiobooks (read by Frank Goosen)

• Learn to lie (3CDs) (2000)
• Pokorny laughs (4CDs) (2003)
• My Me and His Life (2CDs) (2004)
• Fritz Walter, Kaiser Franz and Us (1CD) (2004)
• Pink Moon (4CDs) (2005)
• So Much Time (4 CDs) (2007)
• Radio Heimat (2 CDs) (2010)
• Summer Festival (6 CDs) (2012)
• Rocket Men (4 CDs) (2014)
• Förster, mein Förster (5 CDs) (2016)
• No wonder (6 CDs) (Publisher: Tacheles !, 2019 tacheles! / ROOF Music GmbH)

Others

• The literary card game , 32 cards on which 32 works of world literature are summarized in a few sentences, (2006), ISBN 3-8218-5788-9 .
• Our Country in the 80s - Now Spit on Hands Again 1983 Video

Awards

• 2003: Ruhr Literature Prize

literature

• Timo Rieg, Tobias Haucke: friends from Bochum . Part 1: Frank Goosen, Dietrich Grönemeyer, Dariusz Wosz and eleven other Bochumers in portraits. Biblioviel-Verlag, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-928781-81-2 ( Revier Bochum 1).

Web links

Commons : Frank Goosen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Frank Goosen  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Frank Goosen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frank Goosen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Frank Goosen in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Frank Goosen's official website
• Reading from the novel "Rocket Men"
• Frank Goosen German Academy for Football Culture

Individual evidence

1. ^ F. Goosen: The Beatles. Cologne 2020. p. 9.
2. ^ F. Goosen: The Beatles. Cologne 2020. p. 12.
3. ^ F. Goosen: The Beatles. Cologne 2020. p. 99.
4. ↑ Radio Heimat on the way to the cinema . Retrieved November 17, 2016.
5. ↑ It crashes at VfL Bochum: Engelbracht and supervisory boards away . Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 22, 2017
6. ↑ https://www.eurosport.de/fussball/vfl-bochum-personelle-veranderungen-im-aufsichtsrat-und-vorstand_sto6452967/story.shtml
7. ^ Archived copy ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Literature series Goosens Neue Bücher
8. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2016/13/foerster-mein-foerster-frank-goosen-roman
9. ↑ SWR1 BW, SWR1 BW: Frank Goosen | Cabaret artist and writer. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
10. ^ Frank Goosen - person. Retrieved on May 17, 2020 (German).