Martin Ahrends

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Martin Ahrends (born March 20, 1951 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) is a German writer and editor .

From his election on September 6, 2002 until his resignation in autumn 2003 - for no reason - he was chairman of the Brandenburg State Association of the Association of German Writers .

He is a member of the international writers' association PEN .

Life

Martin Ahrends was born in 1951 in Berlin-Zehlendorf, in the former western sector of the city. In 1957 he and his parents moved to Kleinmachnow. His father was the violinist Gustav Schmahl, known in the GDR . In 1970 he graduated from high school in Potsdam. He then studied music , philosophy and acting in Berlin.

Until 1977 he was editor of the monthly magazine " Musik und Gesellschaft " and until 1979 research assistant at the Komische Oper Berlin . Due to his attitude towards the political events in Poland in 1980/1981, a work ban was imposed. In the meantime he did temporary work at the Protestant church and private craft businesses. When his application to leave the country (which he submitted in 1982) was granted in 1984, he left for the Federal Republic of Germany.

From 1986 to 1994 he worked as an editor and publicist at ZEIT in Hamburg.

Martin Ahrends has eight children and has lived as a freelance writer in Kleinmachnow since 1994 .

Fonts

  • as editor: Trabbi, Telespargel and Tear Pavilion. The dictionary of the GDR language (= Heyne books. 1, Heyne Report. No. 6754). Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02357-9 (later as: Allseiten Festigt . Keywords for the language of the GDR (= dtv 11126 dtv non-fiction book ). Edition revised and updated by the author, 1st edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-11126-7 ).
  • as editor: Big money. Gambling addiction: case studies - symptoms - therapy (= Heyne books. 10, Heyne report. No. 40). Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-00638-0 .
  • as editor: My life, part two. (Former GDR citizens in the Federal Republic). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01991-0 (interviews with former GDR citizens in the Federal Republic).
  • Clashing words. Small phrasebook in a pertinent German. Two thousand and one among others, Frankfurt am Main among others 1990.
  • Your spent consumers! About the discreet ugliness of the West Germans. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-89244-028-X .
  • The king, the witch and the girl. A modern fairy tale. Witte, Kakenstorf 1991, ISBN 3-928797-00-X .
  • The Brandenburg cyclist. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-462-02226-1 .
  • Man with dimples. In: The Brandenburg cyclist. Two small novels (= construction paperbacks. 1073). Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7466-1073-7 .
  • Intermediate land. Autobiographical essay. Photos by Roger Melis and Bernd Blumrich. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 1997, ISBN 3-931329-00-3 .
  • Lost water (= Göttinger Sudelblätter ). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-402-1 (short story).
  • I see a crow. Satires from the East German provinces. Culture machines, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943977-11-0 .
  • as editor: seduction, control, betrayal - the MfS and the family. Contemporary witnesses report (= series of publications by the representatives of the state of Brandenburg to deal with the consequences of the communist dictatorship. Vol. 6). Metropol, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-245-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid Priebs-Tröger: Lifting the fog of the unspoken, Potsdam's latest news from October 6, 2014, accessed May 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ahrends, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin