Andreas Daams

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Andreas Daams (born February 3, 1971 in Goch ) is a German writer and composer .

Life

Andreas Daams was born in 1971 on the Lower Rhine . After graduating from high school (1990), he did a year of military service as a piano accompanist. This was followed by studies of musicology , German literature and philosophy in Cologne, then composition studies at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf with Manfred Trojahn and at the University of Music and Theater in Munich with Hans-Jürgen von Bose . He completed his studies in 2000 with the master class diploma.

In 1994 Daams was the artistic director of the “Bach am Rhein” festival, and in 1998/99 musical director of the MusikTheaterKöln. Performances of his chamber opera "Las Canciones" based on Johannes von Kreuz took place among others. a. at EXPO 2000 and at the “Theaterzwang 2000” festival in Dortmund . He also worked for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the stages of the city of Cologne.

In 2000 he received an award for the piece "Drum Fire" at the "Music in European Gardens" competition, which caused a scandal throughout Germany. Daams and his co-composer Heiner Frost described this piece as a "work of art", merely cobbled together to dupe the jury respectively.

However, Andreas Daams also received various “real” literature and composition prizes, including the Moerser Literature Prize 1999, the Satire Prize “Der Pfefferbeißer” (Munich 2002) and the 1st prize at the Nettetal Literature Competition in 2006. For the establishment of the Internet Music Publishing house "copy-us" he was awarded at the StartART competition NRW 2001 by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Economics.

As an author, Daams deals primarily with the absurdity of existence in his satires and short stories . Fancifully conceived events and incidents on the one hand make you laugh, but on the other hand they also reveal the insurmountable isolation of the thinking ego, and therefore of consciousness . His last compendium of short and short stories, Pastry on the Self , appeared in 2002 . Daams also works as a freelance journalist for daily newspapers .

Works

  • Pastries for the self. Stories. , edition elsewhere, 2002, ISBN 3-935861-00-1 .
  • Fail. Competition anthology. (Editor), edition elsewhere, 2002, ISBN 3-935861-01-X .
  • Three gentlemen: satires, glosses, drawings with Franz Neige, Arno Zweden (illustrator) and Heiner Frost, edition elsewhere, 2003, ISBN 3-935861-06-0 .
  • Vom Hering and the shoemaker's apprentice: A life between Schaumburg and Schwanenburg (foreword, author: Hermann Bellenberg), edition elsewhere, 2003, ISBN 3-935861-07-9 .
  • Rocking horse doesn't hurt you !: From childhood to old age - short stories from a consciously experienced life (preface, author: Hermann Bellenberg), edition elsewhere, 2005, ISBN 3-935861-14-1 .
  • Echt.net: Selected stories from the competition “Young People Write” - Tom Sawyer Prize of the City of Rees (publisher) with Heiner Frost, edition elsewhere, 2006, ISBN 3-935861-16-8 .
  • “... but Gaby, not like that!”: Cheerful short stories and a little more (preface, author: Hermann Bellenberg), edition elsewhere, 2007, ISBN 3-935861-19-2 .
  • “Oh, my God!”: Selected stories from the “Young people write” competition - Tom Sawyer Prize of the City of Rees (publisher) with Heiner Frost, edition elsewhere, 2008, ISBN 3-935861-24-9 .
  • Keep the change! with Heiner Frost and Rüdiger Dehnen (photographer), edition elsewhere, 2009, ISBN 3-935861-26-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Daams, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Goch