Frank Salewski

Frank Salewski (2012)

Frank Salewski (* 1967 in Schenefeld ) is a German teacher and author .

Life

Frank Salewski grew up in Norderstedt near Hamburg until he was ten years old and then moved with his parents to a village in the Schleswig-Holstein province. As a “town boy” he had a hard time finding his way into the “closed society” of the village. He later processed his difficult experiences literarily. After graduating from school, Salewski trained as an electrical installer and then worked for two years as an electrical mechanic at Deutsche Lufthansa in Hamburg. At the age of 23 he went back to a regular high school - together with 15 to 17-year-old classmates. He passed his Abitur and then studied history and politics to become a teacher at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the University in Bremen , where he graduated in 1999.

Salewski then completed a two-year legal traineeship as a high school teacher , initially for a short time in Wismar and then in Braunschweig . He then went back to Bremen and worked for seven years at a support center in a socially deprived area in Bremen- Blumenthal with pupils with behavioral problems. Since 2009 he has taught at a in Bremen- Horn-Lehe nearby high school with a focus on high school seniors .

Frank Salewski is married and has a daughter with his wife. The family lives in Bremen.

Literary work

Salewski came to writing late in addition to his job and so far has only worked very intensively on his books during the summer holidays, building his topics on his own life experiences. In 2010 he wrote his first book entitled Moved During the holiday season . Settlement with a village in which he processed his stressful childhood and youth experiences and told the story of a boy who moved to a village at the age of 8. He self-published the book.

In 2011, Salewski wrote his novel Homecoming - Had It Had Fallen During the summer holidays , in which he dealt with the taboo martyrdom of many women in post-war German history: The lover and husband of yore returning from war and captivity, brutalized and traumatized , had become a stranger - and remained a stranger. Salewski made use of a fictitious estate find, a suitcase full of letters and diary notes allegedly found after the death of his grandmother, and processed the material into a letter novel set in Quickborn in Schleswig-Holstein . In fact, when he was a boy, he had always listened to the stories of his grandmother, who lived in Quickborn, and her friends, with interest when he spent his holidays with her, and in the process had learned of these taboo and mostly secret topics. He included a few autobiographical events in his novel.

Salewski's debut novel Heimkehrt was published in 2012 by the southern German independent publisher Killroy Media . a. presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair and at book readings. The book immediately attracted some attention from the public and critics. For example, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine (WA) counted it among the "ten books" that the WA reviewer "noticed at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012", and the public broadcaster Radio Bremen TV carried out a television interview with Salewski in early 2013 to his "taboo subject book". In the meantime, the book has also been published in English as an e-book by the Bremen-based e-book publisher Strombuch .

In 2013, Salewski's second book, Football Murder, was published, also by Killroy Media, which he had written during the 2012 summer vacation. In turn, he processed personal experiences, including a. as a former competitive athlete, with fiction. Salewski lets the book play in Munich and addresses the current problems of everyday Bundesliga life such as pressure to perform, homosexuality and tax evasion, which he embeds in a detective novel and describes from the perspective of a young professional footballer who has just switched from an amateur club to a large Bundesliga club.

The short stories The Writing Competition appeared in 2014 and Karbonade or Blutwurst in 2015.

In December 2015, the novel Heimatlos was published , in which the author presents the integration problem and the Arab Spring from the perspective of an intercultural couple.

Works

• Back home - if only he would have fallen (=  Killroy 10 + 1 Stories , Volume 13). 1st edition. Killroy Media , Asperg 2012, ISBN 978-3-931140-17-5 ( review ).

• English-language e-book edition: Back Home Why? Translation into English by Ludmilla Salewski and Anja Rademacher. E-Book, Strombuch, Bremen 2013 (among others as iTunes version and Kindle edition ).

• Football murder (=  Killroy 10 + 1 Stories , Volume 14). 1st edition. Killroy Media, Asperg 2013, ISBN 978-3-931140-16-8 .
• Homeless - Tunis / Hamburg / Bremen. 1st edition strombuch, Bremen December 2015, ISBN 978-1-5194-3263-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Salewski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information on Frank Salewski from Killroy Media

Individual evidence

Note: Individual references given at the end of paragraphs refer to the entire paragraph before.

1. ↑ ^{a b} See information on Frank Salewski ( memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Killroy Media publishing house (www.killroy-media.de); Retrieved February 20, 2014. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Jutta Barth: A personal look at the consequences of war. How the Horner teacher Frank Salewski became the author of the letter novel “Homecoming”. In: Weser-Kurier / District Courier Northeast , from January 14, 2013, p. 4. *
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Cf. Frank Salewski - The man who only writes in summer . Interview with Frank Salewski by René Erdbrügger; Article in Erdbrügger's blog Kino Erleben on December 14, 2013; Retrieved February 20, 2014.
4. ↑ Regina Jerichow: Fictional suitcase full of letters. "Homecoming" by Frank Salewski - amazing debut . Review in the Nordwest-Zeitung on February 28, 2013; Retrieved February 20, 2014.
5. ↑ See Ralf Stiftel: 64th Frankfurt Book Fair: Ten books that caught our eye >>  6. Frank Salewski . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine (WA) of October 12, 2012; Retrieved February 20, 2014.
6. ↑ See episode Ill Souls ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . TV interview with Frank Salewski by presenter Dirk Meißner in the talk show Views , Radio Bremen TV , first broadcast on January 3, 2013; Info with video stream at www.podcast.at; Retrieved February 20, 2014. 
7. ↑ Arne Bode: From reading and listening to books. Strombuch, a new e-book publisher in Bremen, relies on the linking of digital possibilities / expansion in the USA. In: Weser-Kurier , Bremen, from November 18, 2013, p. 18. *
8. ↑ Jörg Esser: Creative summer vacation. "Football Murder" is the second novel by the Bremen teacher Frank Salewski . In: Kreiszeitung , Syke, from November 2, 2013; Retrieved February 20, 2014.
9. ↑ Hasan Gökkaya: The game behind the scenes. Frank Salewski illuminates the problems of everyday life in the Bundesliga in the crime thriller "Football Murder". In: Weser-Kurier / District Courier Northeast , from January 5, 2014, p. 2. *
10. ↑ Erdbruegger: Love overcomes all limits: the Pinneberger district succeeds in creating a moving novel | shz.de. Retrieved on July 27, 2016 (German). 
11. ↑ In search of love. December 7, 2015, accessed July 27, 2016 . 
12. ↑ The somewhat different refugee story. In: www.hamburg1.de. Retrieved July 27, 2016 . 

  * Note: The corresponding newspaper article is available online via the digital newspaper archive of Bremer Tageszeitungen AG (subject to a charge).