Berni Mayer

Berni Mayer (* 30th August 1974 in Mallersdorf as Bernhard Mayer ) is a German author , podcaster , translator and musician .

Life

Mayer comes from a family that ran a heating and plumbing business in Grafentraubach . He studied German and English in Regensburg and then worked as a senior online editor at MTV (Music Television) in Munich. In Berlin, he worked as a promoter for the record companies Mute Records and Labels before he switched back to MTV and worked there as editor-in-chief for the broadcasters MTV and VIVA . After his departure he was director, writer and producer of the successful web show “Kavka vs. The Web ”, which he mainly produced for Myspace Germany. He also appeared in front of the camera as a sidekick of Markus Kavka with. In 2012 his first novel “Mandels Büro” was published by Heyne Verlag , a satirical music thriller with elements of noir. Sequels followed with "Black Almond" and "The Great Almond". Since 2016 Mayer has been publishing novels in Dumont-Buchverlag ("Rosalie"; "Ein made Mann")

As an author

"Mandels Büro" was published by Heyne Verlag on January 9, 2012 and tells the story of the unemployed music journalists Max Mandel and Sigi Singer, who inherit a detective agency. In the novel, the bizarre investigator couple tries to find the lost recordings of the murdered old rocker Leo Tilmann and causes a not inconsiderable hubbub. The novel caricatures the media and music industry, from which Mayer comes professionally, but also describes "the laconic story of a friendship that is slowly going to hell" (Mayer).

"Black Mandel", the second part of the series, was released in November 2012. In it, the protagonists end up in Norway, where they get caught between the fronts of rival black metal bands.

The third part "The big almond" was released on April 14th, 2014 and takes the two DIY detectives not only to their hometown, but also on tour with a wrestling promotion that has been wrestled.

In October 2016, "Rosalie" will be his literary debut at Dumont-Buchverlag. The book is about two teenagers who met in a small town in the deep south of Germany in 1986, and whose secret love is put to the test by a corpse found in a dilapidated moated castle and a carefully suppressed Nazi crime.

In March 2019, "Ein Made Mann" (Dumont-Buchverlag) will be published, a novel about the student Robert Bley, an autobiographical, smug to pensive novel about relationships between Generation X and male self-indulgence.

As a musician

Mayer is a singer and guitarist. With the band The Sealevel he released the album "Beach From Last Summer" in 2005 on Firestation Records in the tradition of bands such as Teenage Fanclub or BMX Bandits. Since 2011 he has been guitarist and singer in the heavy metal band The Brothers Grim, who released their first album "Bamberg Apocalypse" in September 2012.

As a blogger / translator / podcaster

Mayer has been blogging on the private blog bernimayer.de since 2005, which contains not only literary but also texts about football and films. He also works as a translator. B. translated the book for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire into German or the autobiography "Gilliamesque" by Terry Gilliam . In the crime novel area, for example, he translated Thomas Mullen's novel Darktown (DuMont Buchverlag, 2018). With his colleague Rüdiger Rudolph, he moderates the "Brenner Pass Bundesliga Podcast" on football and pop culture and also the true crime podcast "Dunkle Heimat".

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• Mandel's office , Heyne, ISBN 978-3-453-40873-9 .
• Black Mandel , Heyne, ISBN 978-3-453-40952-1 .
• The big almond , Heyne, ISBN 978-3-453-67661-9 ,
• Rosalie , Dumont, ISBN 978-3-8321-9840-4 .
• A Made Man - Robert Bley's Light-shy Years of Study , Dumont, ISBN 978-3-8321-9888-6 .

Discography

• Tri-Anger - dto., South Pole, 1997
• The Sealevel - "Beach From Last Summer", Firestation Records, 2005
• The Brothers Grim - Waltzes EP, 2011
• The Gebruder Grim - Bamberg Apocalypse, Skycap-Records
• The Brothers Grim - The Priestess EP, Skycap-Records

Web links

• Berni Mayer's private blog : www.bernimayer.de
• Official website of The Gebruder Grim: www.gebrudergrim.com
• Article about Mandel's office on 1LIVE
• Süddeutsche Zeitung on "Rosalie"
• Brenner Pass Podcast
• Dark Homeland Podcast

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Kavka vs. The Web" on MySpace
2. ^ Heyne publisher's website for the book "Mandels Büro"
3. ↑ Review of "The Great Almond" , published on April 18, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2014.
4. ↑ Official website of the band "The Brothers Grim"
5. ↑ Berni Mayer's private blog