HP Daniels
HP Daniels (born November 3, 1951 in Munich ) is a German writer, musician and journalist.
life and work
After graduating from high school, HP Daniels studied in Frankfurt / M. German studies and political science at the Free University of Berlin . He completed his studies with a master's thesis on the subject: The influence of modern American poetry on Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's poems .
Even during his studies he performed as a singer / songwriter . After graduating in 1980, he founded the rock band The Escalatorz , with whom he gave concerts as a singer and guitarist and released various records. He also wrote most of the songs for the band.
He also worked as an author of short stories, short stories and reports for various radio stations, newspapers, magazines and anthologies. He worked as a music critic for Tip Berlin for many years , and from 1998 to 2016 for the Berliner Tagesspiegel .
For his literary work he received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Academy of Arts in 1991, a scholarship from the Berlin Senate for Culture in 1992, and scholarships from the Berlin Artists' Fund in 1993 and 1994.
In 2019 he published his first novel Runaway . in the Berlin Transit Verlag
Publications
Discography (The Escalatorz)
- The Escalatorz ... at 45 rpm , 10 "-EP, Mauerton Musikproduktion, 1981
- Rough Stuff / Back On My Feet Again , 7 ", Berlin Rock News, 1982
- So Fragile / No Panic , 7 ", Smanx, 1983
- Sordid Selection , MC, Smanx, 1983
- From The Garage Straight To Your Heart / Commuter Love , 7 ", Smanx, 1984
- Season Ticket / Too Bad , 7 ", Smanx, 1984
- Movin 'On / Small Talk , 7 ", Smanx, 1985
- Straight To Your Heart, LP , Vielklang / Smanx, 1987
- Contaminated Memories / No Crime , 7 ", Smanx, 1987
Literature (selection)
- Wewelsflether half-truths (smAnx records), AudioCassette, Berlin 1992
- Herman Brood in: Poetry! Slam! - Texts of the pop group (Ed. A. Neumeister) Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-13736-4
- Between the cities in: The everyday life (Ed. Michael Rutschky) Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-672-2
- Short stories in the weekend supplement Modern Times of the Frankfurter Rundschau , TAZ , Tagesspiegel etc.
- Stories and short stories for Südwestrundfunk , Radio Brandenburg , SFB , Radio Eins etc.
- Various texts for the Rock files , MDR-Sputnik , 1999
- Wewelsflether half-truths in: At that time behind the dike (Ed. Dieter Stolz), Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-88243-848-7
- Various obituaries in: What remains - Obituaries (Ed. David Ensikat), BTV, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8333-0307-7
- Finnish in: Gute-Mune-Stories (Ed. Karoline Adler), dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-21655-5
- Runaway (Roman), Transit, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-88747-368-6
Web links
- Literature by and about HP Daniels in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Escalatorz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of HP Daniels
- Author page of the Transit Verlag
- Article v. HP Daniels in the Tagesspiegel
- Article v. HP Daniels in the taz
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Escalatorz - Rockinberlin. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
- ^ HP Daniels. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ HP Daniels: So, after all, blowtorch . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 2, 1995, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 27 ( taz.de [accessed on May 10, 2019]).
- ^ HP Daniels: And the Wind Cries Jimi (Part 1). Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ HP Daniels: And The Wind Cries Jimi (Part 2). Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
- ^ Runaway. Novel | Transit publishing house. Retrieved on May 10, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Queen of the Word. May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
- ↑ '1000 Years of Rock'n'Roll' feature series on MDR. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Back then, behind the dike. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daniels, HP |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, musician and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |