Holly-Jane Rahlens

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Holly-Jane Rahlens (* 1950 in Queens , New York City ) is an American writer and actress living in Germany .

Life

Holly-Jane Rahlens grew up as a child of Jewish parents in Brooklyn and Queens and studied literature and theater at Queens College . In 1972 she moved to West Berlin , where she worked as a moderator at RIAS Berlin. Her first radio play Sudeka - The Death of a Young Poet was produced by RIAS in 1979 under the direction of Robert Matejka . In the 1980s she worked as an actress, radio play author and radio presenter, and later also in television. At the same time, she made a name for herself with her bilingual one-woman shows on Berlin cabaret stages, including a night out with Dottie (via Dorothy Parker ) and autobiographically inspired monologues such as New York, Neukölln and Berlin, Brooklyn and back . Her stage monologue One fine day, or why a princess doesn't wear orthopedic shoes ( GRIPS Theater 1990) was adapted as a television play by the SFB and later became the basis of an English-language textbook. The radio play Daily soap (produced by SWR ), written and staged by Antje Vowinckel based on her idea , received the Prix ​​Europa as Best European Radio Drama in 2000 .

Rahlens also worked as a dialogue coach and author / translator of movies from directors such as Wim Wenders , Maria Schrader , Veit Helmer and Eric Till with and wrote columns for the Film Festival Journal of the Berlinale .

Rahlens published her first novel, Becky Bernstein goes Berlin , in 1996. Her text Prinz William, Maximilian Minsky und ich was written in 1995 as a radio play, adapted for school reading in 1999 and finally published in 2002 as her third novel . The bestseller was published in 13 countries and was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 2003 as the best book for young people . The corresponding audio book read by the author was on the list of the best for the German Record Critics' Award in the first quarter of 2003 . The film Max Minsky und ich, based on this book and directed by Anna Justice (produced by X-Films Creative Pool ), for which Rahlens also wrote the script, was released in German cinemas on September 6, 2007.

Holly-Jane Rahlens lives as a freelance writer in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Awards

Works

Novels

  • Becky Bernstein goes Berlin . Translated by Sigrid Ruschmeier. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03866-2 .
English original version: Becky Bernstein goes Berlin . Arcade Publishing, New York 1997, ISBN 1-55970-381-4 .
  • Mazel Tov in Las Vegas. A wedding novel . Translated by Sigrid Ruschmeier. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-492-03958-8 .
English original version: Mazel tov . Unpublished.
  • Everlasting - The Man Who Fell Out of Time . Translated by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Wunderlich / Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-8052-5016-0 .
English original version: Infinitissimo - The Man Who Fell Through Time . Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-27450-3 .

Youth books

  • Prince William, Maximilian Minsky and me . Translated by Ulrike Thiesmeyer. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-21159-9 .
English original version: Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and me . Candlewick Press, Cambridge MA 2005, ISBN 0-7636-2704-6 .
English original version: How to really kiss . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-407-74029-8 .

Radio plays

  • 1979: Sudeka - The Death of a Young Poet , Director: Robert Matejka , RIAS
  • 1988: One Fine Day or Why does an accident always happen on the wrong day , directed by Ursula Weck , SFB / ORB
  • 1991: Berlin, Brooklyn and back. Preliminary farewell to an ex-New Yorker , SFB
  • 1993: Kram und Krempel or How a completely normal neurotic woman puts her life in order , director: Ursula Weck, SFB
  • 1994: Masel tow in Las Vegas. Scenes on the eve of a wedding , directed by Ursula Weck, SFB / RB
  • 1995: Prince Charles, Melvin Minsky & Me , directed by Robert Matejka, DLR
  • 1996: Neukölln apprenticeship years or My life before the German dative , director: Götz Fritsch , SFB / ORB
  • 2019: Stella Menzel and the golden thread , director: Leonhard Koppelmann , RBB / NDR

Others

  • 1989: One fine day . ARD / SFB (TV script)
  • 1992: One fine day or How I learned to walk straight . Klett, ISBN 3-12-544420-9 (textbook)
  • 1992: Berlin, Brooklyn and back. A few adventures in the life of an Ex-New Yorker . Landesbildstelle Berlin (textbooks)
  • 1999: Prince William, Maximilian Minsky & Me . Klett (school reading)
  • 2000: Gummibärchen für Mommy / Gummi bears for mommy, read by the author. ISBN 3-929079-31-3 . SOLO / SFB (audio book)
  • 2006: Max Minsky and me . X-Films Creative Pool (screenplay)
  • 2007: Las Vegas Bride (screenplay)

literature

  • Annamarie Gau: Holly-Jane Rahlens , in: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005, p. 100 f.

Web links

Commons : Holly-Jane Rahlens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dradio.de
personal data
SURNAME Rahlens, Holly-Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York City