Arwed Vogel

Arwed Vogel (* 1965 in Munich ) is a German writer , lecturer in creative writing and cultural functionary .

biography

Vogel attended grammar school in Vaterstetten near Munich. After graduating from high school and doing community service, he studied ethnology and economic geography in Munich and London. During his school days he published his own stories and from 1984 became involved in the Munich literature office (Haidhauser Werkstatt), of which he is a co-founder. After graduating, he set up a private writing workshop and held courses on literature and creative writing. His focus was particularly on senior work and later also on youth work. He published his first novel The Skin of the Stones in 2003. By 2010 he had published five volumes with short prose, which were created in various writing courses. From 2015 onwards, six short novels for school lessons emerged from youth work at Bavarian schools, some with accompanying material. In 2016, Vogel also published his second novel How Anna found the war, about coming to terms with the First World War from today's perspective.

Vogel has been chairman of the Association of German Writers in Bavaria since 2016 . In 2016 he was also one of the initiators of the Bavarian Literature Radio . Since 2006, Vogel has been involved as a media councilor in the Bavarian State Office for New Media , where he was appointed deputy in 2017. Chairman of the Radio Council was elected.

Works

Fiction

• The skin of the stones , Allitera Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-935877-87-9
• How Anna found the war , Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-881-7
• How do you catch a shooting star? , Persen Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-403-23544-6
• The chance of your life , Persen Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-403-23582-8
• The house of secret mirrors , Persen Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-403-23544-6
• Showdown on the soccer field , Persen Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-403-23645-0
• End of an escape? , Persen Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-403-20048-2
• On the right path? , Persen Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-403-20307-0

Non-fiction

• The novel. To plan. Write. Publish. , Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-677-6

Prizes and awards

• Haidhauser workshop award for short prose (1992)
• 3. Irseer Pegasus (2001)
• Foreign Office Travel Grant (2003)

Web links

• Author portrait Arwed Vogel in the literature portal Bavaria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://schriftsteller-bayern.de/ueber-uns/vorstand/
2. ↑ https://www.blm.de/infothek/pressemitteilungen/2017-05-11-walter-keilbart-ist-neuer-vorsitzender-des-medienrats-der-blmkatharina-geiger-wird-seine-stellvertreterin-7638
3. ↑ http://muenchner-literaturbuero.de/gallery
4. ↑ http://www.irseer-pegasus.de/cms/rueckschau/