Frank Schäfer (writer)

Frank Schäfer (* 1966 ) is a German writer .

Life

The freelance author lives in Braunschweig and writes regularly for the daily newspapers NZZ , Junge Welt and taz as well as for the magazines Rolling Stone , Titanic and Beton . He wrote his dissertation on Lichtenberg and Judaism in Braunschweig. In addition to various collections of essays, he published non-fiction books on literature and pop culture . In 2001 his debut novel with the title Die Welt ist ein Scheibe was published by October Verlag Münster. Schäfer was one of the co-editors of the magazine Griffel . As a guitarist, Schäfer played in the heavy metal band Salem's Law in the late 1980s and early 1990s .

Fonts

• Stylus. Magazine for Literature and Criticism (ed. By FS and Rüdiger Wartusch), Issue 1 (1995) to Issue 9 (2001), initially Kuhle, Braunschweig; from issue 8 Wehrhahn, Hanover
• The golden seventies. A necessary dictionary (together with Gerald Fricke, Rüdiger Wartusch), Reclam Leipzig, Leipzig 1997
• The Campus / The Campus Dictionary (together with Gerald Fricke, Dietrich Schwanitz), Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-8218-0525-2
• Lichtenberg and Judaism. Wallstein, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 978-3-89244-306-3
• Lichtenberg ABC. Reclam, Leipzig 1998
• Petting instead of pershing. The dictionary of the eighties (together with Gerald Fricke), Reclam Leipzig, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 978-3-379-01630-8
• Lichtenberg - Schmidt - Rühmkorf. A little analogy and deduction knowledge. Wehrhahn, Hannover 1999, ISBN 978-3-932324-96-3
• Lexicon of rock guitarists (together with Michael Rudolf ), Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999
• There's a first time for everything. The book of pioneers, thought leaders and newcomers (together with Gerald Fricke), Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999
• The discovery of the imperfect. Lichtenberg and Goethe. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2000, ISBN 978-3-932324-00-0
• Lemmy and the Schmöker Band (together with Gerald Fricke, Hartmut El Kurdi , Michael Quasthoff), Reiffer, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 978-3-934896-45-1
• Cult books. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-89602-330-8
• The Boys Are Back In Town. My first rock concert - a reader. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000
• Heavy metal. Stories, bands and records. Reclam, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3-379-01737-4
• The world is a disc. Rock novel. October, Münster 2001, ISBN 978-3-938568-11-8
• Summer of bats. Roch and roll haiku. Reiffer, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 978-3-934896-14-7
• A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002
• I'm off. Forays into pop culture. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-89602-394-0
• Tough guys. October, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-938568-21-7
• Twisted. October, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-938568-10-1
• Pop! Everyday life! Madness! An unobjective lexicon. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89602-465-7
• Pünschel provides material. Maro, 2004, ISBN 978-3-87512-275-6
• What's the noise. Rock reviews. Reiffer 2005
• Soundtrack of a summer (under the pseudonym Fritz Pfäfflin (ed.)), Herder 2005
• Cult books. what you should really know. Erftstadt 2005 (improved, greatly expanded new edition, area)
• There's a first time for everything (together with Gerald Fricke, improved, greatly expanded new edition, area)
• Small town blues. Maro, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87512-282-4
• Censored books. Prohibited literature from Fanny Hill to American Psycho. Area, Erftstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-89996-800-2
• Generation rock. Concept album. October, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-938568-50-7
• Homestories. Ten visits to writers. Textem, Hamburg 2008
• Woodstock '69. The Legend. Residence, St. Pölten 2009
• Helmut Salzinger: Best of Jonas Überohr. Pop criticism 1966–1982. Edited by Frank Schäfer. Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2010
• Old cars and rock and roll. The mad reviewer October 1st , Münster 2010
• 111 reasons to love heavy metal. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010
• Rumba with the rumblers. The mad reviewer October II , Münster 2011
• Talking metal. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011
• Being Jimi Hendrix. An essay. Reiffer, Meine near Braunschweig 2012
• The little provincial advisor. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2012
• Metal Störies. Metrolit, Berlin 2013
• What men would never say. Lappan, Oldenburg 2013
• Metal Antholögy. Views and opinions of a heavy metal addict. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2014
• Shame! Shame! Shame! A comic seducer. Reiffer, Meine near Braunschweig 2014
• The couch rebel. Forays into real life. Herder, Freiburg 2015
• 1966. The year the world expanded its consciousness. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 2016
• Henry David Thoreau - forest walker and rebel. A biography . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017
• Chicken gods. Novel . Limbus, Innsbruck 2017
• Burg Herzberg Festival - since 1968 . Reiffer, Meine near Braunschweig 2018
• Hear 'em all. Heavy metal for the iron island . Edited by Frank Schäfer. Valve, Mainz 2018
• Hunting scenes in Lower Saxony. Reiffer, Meine bei Braunschweig 2019
• The reinvention of rock and roll. Reiffer, Meine bei Braunschweig 2020
• Rebellion. Textem, Hamburg 2020
• Notes on a Dirty Old Man. Charles Bukowski from A to Z. Two thousand and one, Leipzig 2020

Discography

• Salem's Law - Tale Of Goblin's Breed, ZYX Metallic 1989
• Salem's Law - Generation Rock, bonus CD for the book of the same name, October 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frank Schäfer: Only a Man in the Lower Saxony province on single-generation.de
• Frank Schäfer on maroverlag.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Hochkeppel : He did not eat meat, never married . Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 28, 2017, p. 12