Holger Siemann

Holger Siemann (born June 11, 1962 in Leipzig ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Growing up in Jena , he did a lengthy military service in the National People's Army , which he finished as a first lieutenant . Siemann studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated in 1989 with a thesis on "the genesis of self-confidence in the ontogenesis of humans". He worked as an actor, family helper and manager of Einhorn eV and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin and in the Uckermark .

Works

Novels

• Work and Striving , Roman, 2006 with C. Bertelsmann
• Karla's attempt to make the world a better place , Roman, 2008 for C. Bertelsmann
• Das Weiszheithaus , Roman, 2017, Dörlemann Verlag

Libretti

• Indians , libretto for a pasticcio, music by Meyerbeer, Neuköllner Oper Berlin 2001
• Münchhausen - Lord of Lies , music by Dan Dediu, Neuköllner Oper 2002
• Alice , libretto for an opera based on Lewis Carroll, music by Hanno Siepmann, Neuköllner Oper 1999

Radio plays

• Desmoto, three scenes of human intercourse , ORB, 1994
• A word on murder , SFB / ORB / DR Berlin, 1997
• My Life as a Dead , DW, 1997
• Poland to Poland , DW, 1998
• The real Patschorke , SFB / ORB / DR Berlin, 1999
• If you don't want to hear, you have to die , BR, 2001
• Murder game , RBB 2004
• Alles ist Erpel , RBB 2010 ( radio play of the month February 2010)
• Puntland, cheese, quiet death , WDR 2012
• Murder on the Hindu Kush , WDR 2013
• A star glows in old skin , SRF 2015
• Death and the Pigs , WDR 2015, 53'41 min.

feature

• The Blue Prince , DS Culture, 1992
• Rats are charming people , DLR Berlin, 1998
• And tomorrow in the cool grave , DLR Berlin, 1999
• We are all our own , MDR 2000
• Kafka, Chancellor and nothing cracks , Deutschlandfunk, 2010
• Light at the end of tunnel B , Deutschlandfunk, 2018
• On the educational front: East Berlin teachers in the upheavals of the Wende , Deutschlandfunk, 2019

Awards

• 1989 Prize from the International Association for Children's and Youth Theater
• 1991 Prize in the script competition of the Hamburg Film Fund
• 2000 Slabbesz of the radio play meeting Rust
• 2002 Gay Bookstore Literature Prize
• 2010 Zons Radio Play Award

Web links

• Literature by and about Holger Siemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• die Schreiberey, Holger Siemann's literary station

supporting documents

1. ↑ Midnight Crime: Death and the Pigs , Deutschlandfunk