Zoran Drvenkar

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Zoran Drvenkar (born July 19, 1967 in Križevci , SR Croatia , Yugoslavia ) is a German writer .

Life

Zoran Drvenkar was born on July 19, 1967 in Križevci and came to Berlin with his parents at the age of three. He grew up in Charlottenburg .

He temporarily took jobs in the kindergarten or organic store, and worked as a freelancer for the Berliner Tagesspiegel for a few months . After 1989 he first went to Bavaria and then lived from 1991 to 1994 in a caravan in the Netherlands . In 1995 he returned to Berlin. Today he lives near Berlin in a former grain mill.

He has been working as a freelance writer since 1989 . He writes contemporary literature, mostly novels , poems , plays and short stories , for both children and young people and adults. The genres include youth books , thrillers , science fiction and crime novels , among others .

Drvenkar earned several grants from the Berlin Senate, several contracts for work with the Berlin artist support and twice the Alfred Döblin grant from the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

In 2004 he wrote the children's book Die Kurzhosengang under the pseudonym of the alleged Canadians Victor Caspak & Yves Lanois and received the German Youth Literature Prize for it in 2005.

Awards

• 1999 Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize for nobody as strong as we are
• 2000 LUCHS 162 for Standing in the Rain
• 2001 Science Fiction Prize of the Berliner Festspiele for Die Alte Stadt
• 2001 Munich Youth Dramatist Prize for Dream Couple
• 2001 Würth Literature Prize
• 2001 La vache qui lit
• 2002 LUCHS 183 for Cengiz & Locke
• 2002 Children's Book Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for The Only Bird That Doesn't Fear the Cold
• 2003 Jury of the Young Readers Special Prize
• 2003 Hansjörg Martin Prize from the “Authors' Group in German-Language Crime Literature” - The Syndicate for Cengiz & Locke
• 2004 Fantastic Prize from the city of Wetzlar for Tell me what you see
• 2004 Goldener Lufti for Tell me what you see
• 2004 Hans im Glück Prize for Cengiz & Locke
• 2004 German Youth Literature Prize for the translation of fox by Margaret Wild
• 2004 theater award for the play dream couple
• 2005 Toad of the Month for December for the night my sister kidnapped Santa Claus
• 2005 German Youth Literature Prize for Die Kurzhosengang , written under the pseudonym Victor Caspak & Yves Lanois
• 2006 LUCHS 227 for the night my sister kidnapped Santa Claus
• 2006 Silver Lola for Knallhart
• 2008 Pied Piper Prize for Literature with Martin Baltscheit for Zarah. You're not scared, are you?
• 2010 Friedrich Glauser Prize for Sorry
• 2015 German children's radio play award for Magdeburg was formerly called Madagascar

Works

Adults

• Could I collect my longing for you with Corinna Bernburg, Photographien & Gedichte, cbj, 2015. ISBN 978-3-570-15909-5
• Still , Eder & Bach, Berlin 2014. ISBN 3-945386-00-4
• Du , Ullstein Buchverlag 2010. ISBN 3-550-08773-X
• Sorry , Ullstein Buchverlag 2009. ISBN 3-550-08772-1
• Yugoslavian Gigolo , Klett-Cotta 2005. ISBN 978-3-423-20977-9
• You're too fast , Klett-Cotta 2003. ISBN 3-608-93623-8

youth book

• Licht und Schatten , Roman, Beltz & Gelberg, 2019. ISBN 978-3-407-75462-2
• Could I collect my longing for you with Corinna Bernburg, Photographien & Gedichte, cbj, 2015. ISBN 978-3-570-15909-5
• The Call from the Ice - The Last Angel (Part II) , 2015 cbj ISBN 978-3-570-17137-0
• The Last Angel - (Part I) , 2012 cbj ISBN 978-3-570-15459-5
• what's up if you stay , 2005 Carlsen ISBN 3-551-58148-7
• Cengiz & Locke , Carlsen, Hamburg 2002 ISBN 3-551-58074-X
• Tell me what you see , Carlsen 2002. ISBN 3-551-58097-9
• Touch the flame , Carlsen 2001. ISBN 3-551-58071-5
• Standing in the rain , 2000, Rowohlt ISBN 3-499-20993-4
• Der Bruder , 1999 Rowohlt ISBN 3-499-20958-6
• Nobody as strong as us , 1999 Rowohlt ISBN 3-499-20936-5

Children's book

• The Short Pants Gang & The Brothers Testament , CBJ 2018
• The return of the shorts gang , reprint, CBJ 2018
• Do you remember , with pictures by Jutta Bauer , Hanser 2017
• The daring return of JanBenMax , with pictures by Christine Schwarz , CBJ 2013
• The daring adventures of JanBenMax , new edition, with pictures by Christine Schwarz , CBJ 2013
• You again , new edition, illustrated by Ole Könnecke , CBJ 2013
• The Kurzhosengang & the Totem von Okkerville , with pictures by Martin Baltscheit , CBJ 2012
• The daring adventures of JanBenMax , with pictures by Christine Schwarz , Bloomsbury 2008
• Frankie invisible , with pictures by Martin Baltscheit , Tulipan 2008
• Zarah - you're not scared, are you? , with pictures by Martin Baltscheit , Bloomsbury 2007
• Paula and the lightness of being , with illustrations by Peter Schössow , Bloomsbury 2007
• The return of the shorts gang , under the pseudonym Victor Caspak & Yves Lanois, Bloomsbury 2006
• When the ball becomes the sun , novel with Gregor Tessnow , Terzio 2006, ISBN 978-3-89835-854-5
• The night my sister kidnapped Santa Claus , Carlsen, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-551-55419-6
• The short pants gang , under the pseudonym Victor Caspak & Yves Lanois, Carlsen 2004
• Eddie in the final , Oetinger 2004. ISBN 3-7891-0597-X
• You again , illustrated by Ole Könnecke 2003 Carlsen ISBN 3-551-55240-1
• Eddie's second story of lies , 2001 Oetinger
• Eddie's first story of lies , 2000 Oetinger
• The only bird that doesn't fear the cold , with pictures by Martin Baltscheit Carlsen, Hamburg 2001 (republished as p. 2007 ISBN 978-3-551-35565-2 )
• Children's winter or Alissa's dream , 2000 Oetinger ISBN 3-499-21188-2
• The only bird that doesn't fear the cold 2001 Carlsen, ISBN 3-551-55220-7

Audio book

• Still , unabridged reading by Christoph Maria Herbst , Der Audio Verlag 2014
• The Last Angel , unabridged reading by Martin Baltscheit , cbj audio 2012
• You , audio book Hamburg 2010
• Sorry , audio book Hamburg 2009
• You're too fast , Audiobook Hamburg 2009
• The night my sister kidnapped Santa Claus , read by Martin Baltscheit , audio book Hamburg 2009
• The daring adventures of JanBenMax , part I & II, read by Martin Baltscheit , Hörcompany 2008
• The night my sister kidnapped Santa Claus , three stories from the novel, read by the author, Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek, 2007
• Paula and the lightness of being , read by Hannah Herzsprung and with the previously unpublished story about Paula's brother Lennis' short journey to the stars read by the author, Hörcompany 2007
• The return of the Kurzhosengang , read by Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck, Gustav Peter Wöhler and the author, Hörcompany 2007
• The short pants course , read by Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck and Gustav Peter Wöhler
• Eddie's stories of lies , read by Ilona Schulz , Hörcompany 2007
• The only bird who doesn't fear the cold read by the author, Hörcompany 2002

script

• Knallhart , with Gregor Tessnow based on his novel of the same name, filmed in 2006 by Detlev Buck

Plays

• Magdeburg was formerly called Madagascar , publishing house for children's theater
• Zarah - you're not scared, are you? , Publisher for children's theater
• The second chance premiered in Potsdam 2000 at the Hans-Otto-Theater
• Dream couple premiered in Berlin 2006 at the Theater an der Parkaue
• Cengiz & Locke premiered in Berlin 2006 at the Grips Theater

Radio plays

• 2015: Magdeburg was formerly called Madagascar - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (Children's radio play - DKultur )

Web links

Commons : Zoran Drvenkar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Zoran Drvenkar
• Literature by and about Zoran Drvenkar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Zoran Drvenkar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Zoran Drvenkar at perlentaucher.de
• Interview with Zoran Drvenkar on KinderundJugendmedien.de