Andreas Steinhöfel

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Andreas Steinhöfel will read from his book Anders at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Andreas Steinhöfel (born January 14, 1962 in Battenberg ) is a German writer . He writes books for children and young people , screenplays and works as a translator .

Life

Andreas Steinhöfel grew up with two brothers in the small town of Biedenkopf in central Hesse and then graduated from the Lahntal School . He first started on Biology and English teachers to study, but then decided after a long school placement for a Master of -Studies English studies , American studies and media studies at the University of Marburg . He was a member of the English Drama Group in the English Department for five years . After completing his studies, his first children's book, Dirk und ich , was published in 1991 .

Andreas Steinhöfel was Gianni Vitiello's partner until his death in 2009. After living in Berlin for twenty years , he now lives and works in Biedenkopf again.

As the winner of the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize in 2013, he had a related teaching assignment at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin . As “Poet in Residence” he held a series of lectures at Bielefeld University in the 2014/2015 winter semester. Steinhöfel has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since November 2016 .

Act

One of his best-known books is Paul Vier und die Schröders (1992), which is now standard reading in German schools. The film adaptation of the book won the German Children's Film Award in 1995 . His novel Die Mitte der Welt , which was nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize in 1999, is particularly popular with young people , as is the quasi-continuation Defender - Stories from the Middle of the World .

His translations include books by Jerry Spinelli , Roddy Doyle , Lois Lowry , Paul Shipton and Kate Walker as well as the new translations of the two best-known works by Susan E. Hinton , - The Outsider and Rumble Fish .

As a screenwriter, Andreas Steinhöfel u. a. About 40 episodes of the Käpt'n Blaubär Club (1993/1994 for WDR / ARD) and five episodes of the children's series Urmel aus dem Eis (1994 for WDR / ARD), several episodes of the children's TV series Löwenzahn (2008-2010 for ZDF) and the TV music series Adventure Classic! (2007 for the WDR). He also wrote the script for the KiKA series Dschermeni, which started in 2017, together with Klaus Döring .

In 2009 he was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in the children's book category for his book Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten . The film version of the same name started in German cinemas on July 10, 2014. The sequels Rico, Oskar und das Herzgebreche and Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein were also filmed.

Steinhöfel said about the character "Rico":

“I always wanted to create a character that speaks to many children from the soul. "Rico" is the best litter I've had so far. I thought it was going to be a special children's book, but I get avalanches in the mail from all types of schools, and every time it says: Finally someone feels and thinks like me. Rico is allowed to make mistakes, Rico pats from one fat bowl to the next and also jumps around in it. It doesn't have to be perfect. I recently had a reading where I said to the students: Don't be told that your intelligence or your human existence can be measured in grades. And those of you who are now in the deep valley of tears with your fives and sixes, believe me: you can be classified as losers by others, but the only thing you are not allowed to do is no longer believe in yourself . "

- Andreas Steinhöfel

Works

Books

Translations

  • Henning Rosenkranz (Carlsen Verlag 1990)
  • Margrit Cruickshank: SKUNK or The Ozone Conspiracy
SKUNK The Ozone Hole Conspiracy (Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 1993)
  • Earvin Johnson: What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
AIDS - What you have to do so that you don't get it if you do (Carlsen, Hamburg 1993)
  • Nigel Hinton: The Finders
Hands off the haunted package (dtv, Munich 1994)
  • Ken Roberts: Hiccup Champion of the World
Paul Schluckauf (Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1994)
  • Kate Walker: Peter
Peter (dtv, Munich 1995)
  • Jason E. Squire (ed.) The Movie Business Book
Movie Business Book (with other translators; Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1995)
  • Michael Jordan: RareAir
RareAir (Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 1996)
  • Lois Lowry: Number the Stars
Who counts the stars (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1996)
  • Mayo Simons: Dead Meat!
All right, Danny Thompson? (dtv, Munich 1997)
  • Sid Fleischman: The 13th Floor - A Ghost Story
The secret on the 13th floor (Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 1997)
  • Paul Shipton: Bug Muldoon
Die Wanze (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1997)
  • Belinda Downes: Every Little Angel's Handbook
What are the angels doing in heaven? (Arena Verlag, Würzburg 1997)
  • Harry Horse: The Last Polar Bears
Mail from the land of the white bears (Arena Verlag, Würzburg 1997)
  • Kate Walker: Changes and Other Stories
Bingo: it happens today! (dtv, Munich 1998; ibid. 2002 under a new title: When Mum attacked the gas station )
Wish Me Luck (Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 1998)
  • Jerry Spinelli: Wringer
Pigeon hunting (Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 1998)
  • Paul Shipton: The Mighty Skink
Three on the run (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1999)
  • Lois Lowry: Stay - Keeper's Diary
Oscar - a dog bites its way through (Loewe Verlag, Bindlach 1999)
  • SE Hinton: Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish (Arena Verlag, Würzburg 1999)
  • Jerry Spinelli: Maniac Magee
East End, West End and in between Maniac Magee (Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2000)
  • SE Hinton: The Outsiders
The Outsider (dtv, Munich 2001)
  • Kimberley W. Holt: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Summer blues (Altberliner Verlag, Berlin / Munich 2001)
  • Roddy Doyle: The Giggler Treatment
The great Giggler secret (Random House, Munich 2001)
  • Roddy Doyle: Rover Saves Christmas
Rover saves Christmas (Random House, Munich 2002)
  • Jerry Spinelli: Stargirl
Stargirl (Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2002)
  • Jerry Spinelli: Crash
Crash - Life is Football (Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2003)
  • Jerry Spinelli: Loser
The hero from the last row (Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2004)
  • Melvyn Burgess: Doing It
Doing it . Carlsen, Hamburg 2004
  • Chris Wormell: Two Frogs
Two frogs, a stick and a dog ... (Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2005)
  • Roddy Doyle: The Meanwhile Stories
Mister Macks misfortunes (Random House, Munich 2005)
  • Jerry Spinelli: Milkweed
Ashes fall like snow . Dressler, Hamburg 2006
Watch out, the Herdmanns are back . Oetinger Verlag, Hamburg 2008
  • Vladimir Radunsky: Where the Giant Sleeps
Where the giant sleeps . Carlsen, Hamburg 2009
  • Jerry Spinelli: Love, Stargirl
Dear Leo - your star girl . Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2009
The smiling Odd and the trip to Asgard . Würzburg: Arena 2010
  • Roddy Doyle: Wilderness
Wilderness (cbj, Munich 2010)
PB Shelley's The Cloud , illustrations by Dirk Steinhöfel. Oetinger, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-7891-7147-5 .
  • Chris Wormell: One Smart Fish
A clever fish . Moritz, Frankfurt am Main, 2011
Mary, Tansey and the Journey into the Night . cbj, Munich 2012.
  • Ursula Dubosarsky: The First Book of Samuel
The shortest day of the year (Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Berlin 2013)
  • Mark and Rowan Summer Set: Two Little Bugs
All good, little one! . Carlsen, Hamburg 2013

Scripts and film adaptations

Film adaptations

script

Awards

literature

  • Klaus-Michael Bogdal: Being yourself and yet different: Andreas Steinhöfel's novel “Die Mitte der Welt” . In: Petra Büker, Clemens Kammler (Ed.): The foreign and the other. Interpretations and didactic analyzes of contemporary books for children and young people . Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2003, pp. 217–233.
  • Mareike Nieberding: Friends for reading. Andreas Steinhöfel wrote one of the most beautiful friendship stories in recent years with “Rico, Oskar and the Deep Shadows”. A visit to the author at the place of his childhood . In: Kulturspiegel . 7/2014, pp. 18-21.
  • Markus Schwahl: Disabled. But only in the head and only sometimes. Alterity and identity in Andreas Steinhöfel's “Rico and Oskar” novels . In: German lessons . No. 62, 2010, pp. 80-84.
  • Barbara Seeliger: "The whole life is a miracle, Phil." Andreas Steinhöfel: The middle of the world . In: Valentin Merkelbach (Ed.): Novels in the classroom. Reading suggestions for upper secondary level . Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2000, pp. 154-164.
  • Andreas Wicke: "Times change, people change, opinions change". Family in Andreas Steinhöfel's “Rico, Oskar… trilogy” . In: interjuli . No. 2/2012, pp. 39-58.
  • Andreas Wicke: “For a long time I didn't like Sherlock Holmes as much as Miss Marple”. Intertextual traces in Andreas Steinhöfel's "Rico, Oskar ..." thrillers . In: Volkacher Bote . No. 98, 2013, pp. 19-30.
  • Klaus Maiwald: Literary quality and (re-) construction of social realities in recent German children's and youth literature: illustrated in novels by A. Steinhöfel, M. Wildner and W. Herrndorf full text online (PDF, free of charge, 18 pages, 229 KB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b self-report in the Marburger UniJournal summer / autumn 2015, p. 52
  2. Article about Vitiello in SZ-Magazin from June 18, 2010
  3. Reach deeper into the bag of tricks - Andreas Steinhöfel is writing a new novel in Biedenkopf, Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung from September 15, 2012
  4. ZDF: Dschermeni (including an interview with Andreas Steinhöfel). Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  5. Dirk von Nayhaus "Questions to Life - Andreas Steinhöfel: Depression is when all your feelings are in a wheelchair ..." chrismon May / 2015.
  6. Andreas Steinhöfel won the Erich Kästner Prize