Doris Claudia Mandel

Doris Claudia Mandel (* 1951 in Merseburg ) is a German writer . She lives in Halle (Saale) .

Life

After graduating from high school and completing vocational training as a chemical technician and a brief interlude with the riot police in Halle (Saale), she became a plant operator in the oxygen factory of the Leuna-Werke . From 1971 to 1975 she studied German, music and education at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where she graduated with a philological diploma. She then worked there until 1978 as a research student in the field of literary sociology .

Mandel became a member of the Young Authors 'Working Group and a candidate for the GDR Writers' Association . From 1978 to 1991 she worked as a freelance writer and journalist. As a singer she sang for ten years as a member of the Halle Madrigalists . From 1980 (with a break in 1989) to 2001, Mandel was the artistic director of the Leuna Chamber Choir. In 1991 she founded a weekly magazine, the “Merseburger Anzeiger”, and headed it as editor-in-chief.

After an initial period of unemployment from 1994 to 1997, she was hired as head of public relations at the Künstlerhaus in Halle (Saale). Mandel was also co-founder and managing director with power of attorney of projekte verlag 188 GmbH (until 1998). Today she lives as a freelance writer and independent publisher in Halle (Saale). Since 1998 she has been a member of the support group for writers in Saxony-Anhalt e. V. and since 2005 member of the Writers' Union. In 2006 she founded the Galgenbergsche Literaturkanzlei e. K., a book publisher.

Scholarships and Awards

1997 Finalist in the literature competition of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).
2002/2003 City Clerk of Halle (Saale) .
2004 scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt with a stay at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf.
2008 working grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and second prize winner at the State Prize for Popular Theater Plays in Baden-Württemberg.

Works

Pieces for the stage

Opern-Treff (premiere 1978, Landestheater Halle)
The cats does not stop to mice. A pasticcio to tobacco and coffee in music (premiere 1979, Landestheater Halle)
In the valley of Halle. Songs, stories and customs of the Halloren (compositions: Johannes Reiche, Gerd Ochs et al., Edition Giovanni, Halle 1995)
The little game of the big time. A School Farce (WP 1995, amateur playgroup)
Homestory. A farce for two (adspecta Theaterverlag, 2012)
Billing. Comedy (adspecta Theaterverlag, 2012)

Literary studies

Reflections on a Goethe poem (in: Hallesche Studies on the Effects of Language and Literature, Halle 1982)
Special problems of the reception of poetry (in: Reading experience. Life experience. Literary sociological studies. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1983)

Contributions to anthologies

A rain from which (poems. In: New German Literature, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar, 1981)
Jannis Ritsos. (Re-sealings. In: Poetry album 195, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1983)
Hennenhahn and Wrdlwrmpf (in: Anthologie, Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, 1984)
Double turn. A reminiscence (biographical note. In: Wendpunkte, Förderkreis der Writers, Halle 1999)
Stone Age (story. In: Der Turmspringer and other stories, Leipzig, Faber & Faber, 1999)
draw according to nature (poem. In: Christoph Buchwald and Kathrin Schmidt [Eds.], Yearbook of Poetry 2011, Munich 2011)
The two-finger syndrome (story. In: Ingeborg von Lips [Hrsgb.], Hallesche Anthologie. Texts of a literary expedition, Halle (Saale) 2012)
Bandreißer (Narration. In: Ellen Roemer [Hrsgb.], The noise falls silent until there is silence in you. Anthology for the 4th Brüggen Literature Autumn. Geest-Verlag Vechta 2012)

Re-composing of musical works

She published musical adaptations and original texts under her former name Dirk Mandel .

Mikis Theodorakis : Symphony No. 2. Das Lied der Erde (German EA 1982, Berlin)

Mikis Theodorakis / Odiseas Elites : To Axion Esti (German EA 1982, Dresden, new edition on audio CD at Berlin Classics 1998)

Mikis Theodorakis / Michalis Katsaros : The Sadducee Passion (World Premiere 1983, Berlin, new edition on audio CD at Berlin Classics 2004)

Mikis Theodorakis / Tasos Livadhitis : Liturgy No. 2. The children killed in wars (German EA 1983, Dresden, new edition on audio CD at Berlin Classics 1995)

Book publications

Brutus the Hellhound. A story with pictures by Heike Lichtenberg (Halle, 1998)
The taming of chaos. Transsexuality and Society. Attempt to approach from a philosophical point of view (Essay. Halle 1999)
Stone age. Stories (Halle, 2000)
My enemy, the darkness. Poems (a selection from thirty years. Halle 2001)
Bride show in Lauchstädt. Two pieces (hall 2007)
Laura under the treetops and the principal death. Goethe and Schiller's worldview in poems from the years 1780 to 1782. (Essay. Halle, 2007)
The Stadler case and the baker's curse. A folk piece and an opera libretto (Halle 2008)
Under the mulberry trees. Roman (Südwestbuch Stuttgart 2012)

There are also around 200 various individual texts for settings (both original texts and adaptations, e.g. in SING A SONG. Songs of the peoples of North America and DIN DON DEINE. Songs of the peoples of Europe, Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984 and 1978).

literature

Between state power and self-realization: Friedrich Döppe and the Young Authors Working Group (AJA) from 1969 to 1983. A documentation commissioned by the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Zeit-Geschichte (n) association, ed. by Thomas Kupfer and Wilhelm Bartsch. HALMA special volume, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME	Mandel, Doris Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Merseburg