Jacinta Nandi

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Jacinta Nandi (born April 4, 1980 in London ) is a British author , blogger and columnist . She has lived in Berlin since 2000 and writes in German and English .

Life

Jacinta Nandi was born in East London in 1980. Her family comes from the English working class. The parents are divorced. Nandi grew up with a stepfather and half siblings. After finishing school, she studied modern languages and came to Berlin in 2000 to work as an assistant teacher at a primary school. She graduated with a bachelor's degree and has lived in Berlin ever since, where she worked as an English teacher at a private language school. Nandi has a son, is divorced and lives in Berlin- Neukölln .

Activity as an author

According to his own account, Nandi tried to write penny novels when he was 16. In Berlin she found connection to reading stages and became known through this. She is a permanent member of the “Surfpoeten” and the Neukölln reading stage “Rakete 2000”. She writes in both German and English, always incorporating words or sentences from the other language. Jacinta Nandi has been writing about the transgender debate in Germany for the British daily newspaper The Guardian since 2013 . For the English-language Berlin magazine Exberliner , Jacinta Nandi wrote articles on her blog "Amok Mama" on a regular basis until 2014. The texts often deal with everyday life as a single parent, life as a single in Berlin and the differences between England and Germany. Since September 2019 she has been writing weekly articles for the magazine. Nandi's column series "The good foreigner" appeared in the taz . Since April 2014 she has been running a taz blog called "Riotmama".

Nandi sees herself as a feminist , but in her texts defends herself against what she sees as excessive political correctness .

In 2011 her first book was published with the title Deutsch werden: Why German people love playing frisbee with their nana naked . In 2013 she published Fish'n'Chips & Spreewaldgurken together with the Berlin writer Jakob Hein . Why Ossis had sex more often and English people had more fun. Doris Akrap wrote about it in the taz : “Clichés were seldom so funny.” In 2015 Jacinta Nandi's autobiographical novel Nothing against blasen was published . The weekly newspaper Jungle World described the work as a “300-page tour de force through online dating portals, through one's own family history, that of racism, migration and football in England”. The verdict of the Focus was: "If you don't mind the shoddy language, you will get good entertainment - and certainly one or the other food for thought."

Comedy

Together with Ben Knight, James Harris and Jörg Kaier, she founded the stand-up comedy and theater group My English Class , which appeared every month with a different program on small stages and with a musical at the English Theater Berlin . In 2008, Philipp Lichterbeck found in Tagesspiegel that My English Class was “one of the most daring things Berlin has to offer beyond the big stages”.

Publications

  • Become German - Why German people love playing frisbee with their nana naked. Stage texts from an english amok mama in Berlin. periplaneta-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940767-76-9 .
  • with Jacob Hein: Fish'n'Chips & Spreewaldgurken. Why Ossis had sex more often and English people had more fun. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04508-6 .
  • nothing against bubbles. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3864930294 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Lena Mösken: Interview with Jacinta Nandi: Life in Berlin is fucked up - but never boring . Berliner Zeitung , May 10, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Jacinta Nandi . Profile in Guardian , November 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kiontke: "Apart from the facts everything is invented" . Interview in: Jungle World 23/2015, June 4, 2015, accessed on June 13, 2015.
  4. ^ Anne Lemhöfer: Childhood memories: Only dreamed. In: Die Zeit No. 16/2013, April 11, 2013. April 11, 2013, accessed on July 6, 2015 .
  5. ^ Texts by Jacinta Nandi. In: Exberliner. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Jacinta Nandi: Riotmama: True Confessions from Berlin's slummiest yummy mummy. In: taz. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Column Air and Love: Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex and a But . taz.die tageszeitung , June 4, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2015.
  8. ↑ Doris Akrap : “taz” at the Leipzig Book Fair 2013: records and avocado cream . taz.die tageszeitung , March 11, 2013, accessed on June 13, 2015.
  9. ↑ Blowjob, orgasm, sex problems: When women write about sex - pretty dirty . Focus Online , May 23, 2015, accessed July 6, 2015.
  10. ^ My English Class website , accessed July 9, 2015.
  11. ^ Philipp Lichterbeck: Culture: Sex strike in Wedding . Der Tagesspiegel , January 28, 2008, accessed on July 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Nandi, Jacinta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author, blogger and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH London