Color shadows and bats
Colored shadows and bats - life in another world is the autobiography of the German writer Axel Brauns , published in 2002 .
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In his autobiography, Axel Brauns describes his life with autism .
At the age of two people, gestures and language become foreign to him. He begins to distinguish two kinds of people. He calls people whom he finds pleasant, colored shadows , and the others are bats to him .
Brauns cannot distinguish between seriousness and wit and tends to repeat new words for him, which is why he is called a parrot . His older brother calls him Dumbbeard because he thinks Axel will never learn. But Haha (Axel's mother) wants to help him get along with the environment. In later years, Brauns slowly but surely begins to come out of himself and begins to amaze his family, teachers, and classmates with his skills and memory. He now knows a few goals for his life: getting his Abitur, studying one day and getting to know love.
Awards
For the first excerpt from his autobiography, Axel Brauns received one of the Hamburg sponsorship awards for literature and literary translations in 2000, and in 2003 he was nominated for the German Book Prize. His book made it onto the bestseller list of Spiegel magazine.
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- Axel Brauns : Colored shadows and bats - life in another world. Hoffmann & Campe 2002, ISBN 3-455-09353-1
- Axel Brauns : Colored shadows and bats: my life in another world . Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3442152445