Bernd Mannhardt

Bernd Mannhardt

Bernd Mannhardt (born June 30, 1961 in Berlin ) is a German writer.

Life

After graduating from secondary school, Bernd Mannhardt first completed a commercial apprenticeship in retail, then trained as an educator. He worked in a Berlin House of Youth , where he was active in cultural work and responsible for public relations . The latter became his main focus of work, which he deepened with an evening course to become a state-certified communications specialist and distance learning to become a journalist .

In addition to his activity in cultural work, Bernd Mannhardt published specialist articles on the practice of public relations for a loose-leaf publication of the Haufe Group , wrote reports and reviews for the Berlin city magazine Zitty and wrote broadcast manuscripts for the radio feature of Deutschlandradio Kultur .

Furthermore, Bernd Mannhardt wrote satirical songs and cabaret texts in the 1980s and wore them a. a. in stage supporting programs solo to acoustic guitar, but also as a duo with either the Berlin cabaret artists Michael Z., Beppo Pohlmann (formerly Gebrüder Blatt Schuss ) or the guitarist at the time and today's composer and recording studio owner Martin Anding. Anding and Mannhardt founded the song project Mothers Children at the same time . The demo recordings made with German-language pop songs did not find a professional producer and were therefore not published.

Bernd Mannhardt's first literary work, a one-act play, was published in an anthology of pieces in 1987. In 2015 his novel debut “Final Chord. A Moabit thriller ”at the Berlin publishing house be.bra . From this a series title developed around the "Commissioner Hans-Joachim Freisal". In addition to the Freisal novels, Bernd Mannhardt writes black-humored short stories that were published in 2014 as a text collection by Schardt-Verlag , Oldenburg. Bernd Mannhardt has also been active as a self- publisher since 2011 and publishes e-books and paperbacks via Book On Demand on epubli .

Bernd Mannhardt has been a member of the Syndikat , the authors' association of German-language crime literature, since 2013 , and of the VS , the association of German writers , since 2017 . Since 2014 he has regularly presented his works at the Berlin Crime Marathon crime festival as well as his own author readings .

Bernd Mannhardt lives in Berlin-Tegel .

Works

Novels

• Freisal Roman final chord. A Moabit thriller. Berlin-Krimi-Verlag, be.bra-verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89809-538-9 .
• Criminal satire Tide, Tat & Tod. A genre pesiflage. Schardt-Verlag, Oldenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89841-811-9 .
• Freisal novel germination time. A Moabit thriller. Berlin-Krimi-Verlag, be.bra-verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89809-524-2 .
• Freisal-Roman Giftzwerg. Detective novel. Berlin-Krimi-Verlag im be.bra-verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89809-548-8 .

Short stories

• Anthology (Ed.) Mordskohl. Short thrillers in honor of the Dithmarscher Kohltage. Schardt-Verlag, Oldenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89841-681-8 .
• Collection You're coming to me just right! Luscious stories for happy readers. Schardt-Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89841-744-0 .
• E-book The nylon stocking machine operator. BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7396-7970-9 .
• Memoirs Hamlet and the Chocolate Lentil. About being a child and writing. Schardt-Verlag, Oldenburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96152-206-4

Plays

• Madness of a lover. in the anthology "Pieces for two people", Martina Waller (Ed.), Grafenstein Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-924322-10-6
• Me and Spitzweg or vice versa. Poet posse. GARN-Theater , world premiere staged and performed by Ulrich Radoy , Berlin, 1994
• Madness of a lover. Theater an der Rott , staging: Peter Nüesch. Actors: Gerrit Krause , first performance Eggenfelden, 2007
• Spoilsport. Six bad pieces. Collection, epubli, Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8442-0826-9 .

Radio plays

• Solowetz or: Wait, just wait a while. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln Speaker: Volker Niederfahrenhorst, Günter Dybus | Director: Josef Walimann. Production: WDR | Original broadcast: 1991
• Liesbeth is dead. Speaker: Uwe Koschel, Walter Renneisen | Director: Christian Gebert | Production: HR | Original broadcast: 1994
• Zwick's Mill. Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt a. M., Speaker: Eva Gosciejewicz, Hermann Treusch , Edgar M. Boehlke | Director: Peter Bongartz | Production: HR | Original broadcast: 1994
• Talk light. Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt a. M., Speaker: Michael Quast , Friedrich-Karl Praetorius | Director: Marlene Renner | Production: HR | Original broadcast: 1994

Audio books

• Short story The nylon stocking machine operator. read by Matthias Ernst Holzmann , author label HörMal !, Berlin 2016.
• Short thriller Mordsalibi. read by Matthias Ernst Holzmann, author label HörMal !, Berlin 2017.
• Short thriller An Italian acquaintance. read by Matthias Ernst Holzmann, author label HörMal !, Berlin 2017.
• Solo satire Mr. Schreiber blocked. Poet posse. read by Matthias Ernst Holzmann, author label HörMal !, Berlin 2017 (both as paperback and e-book, ISBN 978-3-7450-7484-0 ).
• Author reading Bernd Mannhardt: Live in Gießen. Recording from the Gießen crime festival "Mordwörtlich" in Gießen, author label HörMal !, Berlin 2017.

Radio feature

• I'm in a sea of ​​noises. Production DS-Kultur, director: Sabine Ranzinger, original broadcast: 1992
• Then we moved in together. Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln , first broadcast: 1997
• We wanted to be sand in the machine. Production: DS-Kultur / SFB. Director: Gerda Zschiedrich, original broadcast: 1993
• Mustard visions. Production: Deutschlandradio Berlin, first broadcast: 1994
• Meat-maker-thinker-eaters. Production: Deutschlandradio Berlin, first broadcast: 1995

Web links

• Bernd Mannhardt's official author website
• Bernd Mannhardt on LiteraturPort
• Bernd Mannhardt on the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ↑ Bernd Mannhardt's profile at be.bra Verlag. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
2. ^ Profile of Bernd Mannhardt at Schardt-Verlag. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
3. ^ Profile of Bernd Mannhardt at epubli. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Bernd Mannhardt's profile at the Syndikat - authors' group of German-language crime literature. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
5. ^ Bernd Mannhardt's profile at VS, Association of German Writers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2018 ; accessed on January 15, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.