Bodo Morshäuser
Bodo Morshäuser (born February 28, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German writer .
Life
Bodo Morshäuser has published articles in Berlin city magazines since the mid-1970s . He was a freelance author and presenter of youth radio programs at Sender Freies Berlin and is still active today as an author of radio plays and features on the radio . His first book publication was a volume of poetry that was still part of the current everyday poetry trend . From 1983 he presented several short stories in quick succession. His story "The Berlin Simulation", which took place at the time of West Berlin's punk culture and squatter movement, made him known to a wide audience. The following prose works deal with life in a monitored society as well as youth and pop culture against a West Berlin background. In the nineties, Morshäuser devoted himself particularly to the topic of emerging right-wing extremism among German youth after German reunification . His novel "In his arms the child" is an account of the consequences of the sixty-eight movement . His story "And the sun is shining" is an account of cancer.
Bodo Morshäuser is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He received u. a. 1983 the Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt , 1984 the advancement award of the Bremen Literature Prize and, among many other scholarships, an Alfred Döblin scholarship in 1988 and 1990 .
Works
- Alle Tage , Gedichte, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-880-22212-6
- The Berlin simulation , narrative, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-37793-0
- Blende , narration, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-03220-8
- Nervous readers , narrative, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-38215-2
- Revolver , Erzählungen, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-11465-4
- Mainly German , Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11626-6
- Waiting for the leader , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-11879-X
- The white Wannsee , Ein Rausch, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-39213-1
- Targeted glances , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-887-47095-8
- Death in New York City , Roman, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-40714-7
- Declaration of love to an ugly city , Berlin feelings, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-39433-9
- In his arms the child , Roman, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-45543-5
- Make booty , Roman, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41741-X
- The Berlin simulation , narrative, new edition, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944174-02-0
- And the sun is shining , story, Hanani-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944174-03-7
Bodo Morshäuser has published poems, short stories and essays in numerous newspapers, magazines, anthologies and reading books.
He also published eleven radio plays, eleven one-hour radio features and eight radio stories on various radio stations. In addition, numerous book reviews and numerous short articles for various broadcasters.
In the 1980s he was the author and presenter of the series Plattensprünge at the Sender Freies Berlin, then a regular author of the series Passagen (SFB).
The feature film Hass im Kopf by Uwe Frießner (first broadcast in 1994 on arte) was based on motifs from the book Hauptsache Deutsch .
Editing
- Impatience on paper and other signs of life , Berlin 1978 (together with Jürgen Wellbrock )
- Thank you good night , Frankfurt am Main 1985
literature
- Steffen Richter: Mourning work in modern times. Wiesbaden 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Bodo Morshäuser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Bodo Morshäuser
- Morshäuser at Suhrkamp Verlag
- Short biography and information on the work of Bodo Morshäuser at Literaturport
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morshäuser, Bodo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |