Axel Brauns
Axel Brauns (born July 2, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German writer and filmmaker who was diagnosed with autism . The 2007 documentary The Red Carpet is about him.
Life
Brauns spent the first two years of his life in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . In 1965 the family moved to Hamburg-Groß Flottbek . Brauns attended kindergarten, elementary school and high school there, where he graduated from high school at the age of 19 . He then began studying business administration and law at the University of Hamburg , which he broke off in 1984 to devote himself exclusively to writing.
According to his own statement, Axel Brauns consciously sought contact with people from 1998 onwards and forced himself to become public. He attended a writing course in order to be able to further improve his previous scripts and founded a literary salon . In 2005 Brauns received a residency grant from the Chretzeturm artist residence in Stein am Rhein .
Writer and filmmaker
He describes his autistic childhood and youth, beginning at the age of two, in his autobiographical work Buntschatten und Fledermäuse, published in 2002, - Life in Another World . For an excerpt from this book he received one of the advancement awards for literature from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2000 , whereupon he received an offer from the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house .
Axel Brauns was nominated for the German Book Prize 2003 in the category “Most Successful Debut”. Colored shadows and bats reached the Spiegel bestseller list.
In 2004 Brauns made his first feature film Tsunami and Pile of Stone, which premiered in 2008.
In September 2004 his novel Kraniche und Klopfer was published . In this, Axel Brauns describes the life of the fictional girl Adina Adelung. She lives in a house with her brother and her mother, who constantly brings found things - supposedly precious treasures - home and thus turns the house into a garbage dump. Only the friendship with the cranes frees Adina from her bizarre isolation and from the junk.
In 2006, Brauns' second novel followed with the crime thriller Tag der Jagd .
Works
- Color shadows and bats - life in another world. Hoffmann & Campe 2002, ISBN 3-455-09353-1
- Cranes and knockers. Goldmann 2004, ISBN 3-442-46118-9
- Day of the hunt. Hoffmann & Campe 2006, ISBN 3-455-00586-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Axel Brauns in the catalog of the German National Library
- Axel Braun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- own homepage
- " Colorful shadows and bats" report on Geo.de with audio samples
- How the autistic Axel Brauns became a filmmaker - article on welt.de on February 27, 2009
- Experiences of an autistic person - Interview with Axel Brauns from Planet Wissen on youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katharina Rose: External perception and self-perception of an autistic disorder in childhood and adolescence. Shown using the example of the autobiography of Axel Brauns . Bachelor thesis. ISBN 9783638534468
- ^ Axel Brauns - portrait at Hoffmann and Campe Verlag
- ↑ German Book Prize 2003 - Butt award in a new guise - article at spiegel.de from September 27, 2002
- ↑ Bestseller - DER SPIEGEL 18/2002, bestseller from April 29, 2002
- ^ Tsunami and piles of stones , accessed July 10, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brauns, Axel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |