Axel shock

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Axel Schock (born September 11, 1965 in Neckarbischofsheim ) is a German journalist and book author .

Schock grew up in Sinsheim / Elsenz and studied literature , theater studies and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . The first literary publications (prose, poetry, song texts for various bands) began in 1982. In 1985 he received the Scheffel Prize .

He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1985 as a cultural journalist and publicist for various magazines and daily newspapers, including as editor for Hinnerk (Hamburg) and as an author for Cinema , Berliner Zeitung , taz , Berliner Morgenpost and uMag , kulturnews and the news agency dapd . He also wrote features for radio (including RIAS Berlin, DeutschlandRadio and Radio 100 ) and worked for television . He also published various literary titles and non-fiction books under a pseudonym.

Works (selection)

  • Write Traces (Associate Editor) (1993)
  • Ten minutes. Now. Shortest Stories (1993)
  • I'm crazy for the lumberjack shirt (1994)
  • The gay phrasebook (with Ulf Meyer ) (1996)
  • Out! 800 famous lesbians, gays and bisexuals (with Karen-Susan Fessel ) (5th, expanded edition 2004)
  • The Queer Quiz Book (with Ulrike Anhamm ) (1996)
  • One last greeting. Grief - Anatomy of a Feeling (1997)
  • The library of Sodom. The Book of Gay Books (1998)
  • The Cazzo story. Pornstars, made in Germany (2000)
  • The acapickels express themselves (2000)
  • The handsome man is dead. Contributions to the literature prize of the gay bookshops (ed., 2003)
  • Out in the cinema . The lesbian-gay film dictionary (with Manuela Kay ) (2004)
  • Out-Takes The lesbian-gay lexicon of useless knowledge (with Karin Schupp ) (2005)
  • My gay eye 3 (with Rinaldo Hopf ) (Ed., 2006)
  • Gay places. 150 notorious locations (2007)
  • My gay eye 4 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2007)
  • My gay eye 5 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2008)
  • My gay eye 6 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2009)
  • My gay eye 7 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2010)
  • My gay eye 8 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2011)
  • My gay eye 9 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2012)
  • My gay eye 10 (with Rinaldo Hopf) (Ed., 2013)
  • Absolutely Berlin. The Berlin hodgepodge (Hirschkäfer Verlag 2011)
  • Gay Knowledge (2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Shock, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckarbischofsheim