Jens Johler

Jens Johler (born January 6, 1944 in Neumünster ) is a German writer who lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Johler grew up in Hamburg . After training as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich , he was a member of the ensemble at the Dortmund Theater for three years . He also played leading roles in the television film Escape attempt and the series Humboldt School . He then went on to study economics at the Free University of Berlin and was then initially a research assistant there.

In 1972 he founded together with Barbara Sichtermann , Peter upper and other magazine Black protocols that deal with the criticism of the authoritarian and dictatorial thinking communist theoreticians like Lenin , Stalin , Trotsky and other concerned and early issues such as the emancipation of women or of Ecology devoted . He processed his experiences from this time in the 68 novel Der Wrong , which takes place from 1967 to 1974.

Jens Johler has been working as a freelance writer since 1982. He first wrote features for radio. In the early 1990s, his comedies Zobels Daughter and Jetzt oder Nie premiered in Berlin. Stories and novels followed.

In 1999 Johler wrote the biography of the rock band Ton Steine ​​Scherben together with Kai Sichtermann and Christian Stahl .

Between 2001 and 2009, Johler brought out three science thrillers, some with co-authors, God's brain , The false red of the rose and Critique of Murderous Reason .

In 2013 his Bach novel The Mood of the World was published .

In 2017 he published his autobiography Vage Sehnsucht together with Kai Sichtermann .

Works

• Kai Sichtermann , Jens Johler: Vague longing - the bass player from Ton Steine ​​Scherben tells his life. Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2017, 283 pages, ISBN 978-3-927795-79-2 .
• Jens Johler: The mood of the world . The Bach novel. Alexander Verlag , Berlin 2013, 352 pages, ISBN 978-3-89581-320-7
• Jens Johler: Critique of Murderous Reason . Thriller 544 S., Ullstein TB, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3548269540
• Jens Johler & Christian Stahl : The wrong red of the rose . Thriller 381 S., Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3203785765
• Jens Johler & Olaf-Axel Burow : God's brain . Thriller 319 pages, Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3203785757
• Kai Sichtermann / Jens Johler / Christian Stahl: No power for nobody - the history of the clay stones shards . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, 315 pages, ISBN 3-89602-333-0
• Jens Johler & Axel Olly: Bye bye, Ronstein . Roman, Luchterhand, Munich 1995. 160 pages, ISBN 3-630-86868-1
• Jens Johler (Ed.): 'The minimal misfortune', malicious stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, 251 pages, ISBN 3-462-02431-0
• Jens Johler: The wrong one. Novel . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 1994. 168 pages, ISBN 3-630-86837-1
• Jens Johler: A meal at Viktoria's. Novel in short stories . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Hamburg 1993; 232 pp., ISBN 3-630-86810-X
• Jens Johler: The birthday . dtv, Munich 1996, 121 pages, ISBN 3-423-25112-3

Dramas

• Zobel's daughter . First performance in 1990 in Berlin
• Now or never . First performance in 1991 in Berlin

Essays

• Jens Johler, Barbara Sichtermann : On the authoritarian spirit of German theater , Theater heute, April 1968
• Jens Johler: Knigge, Castiglione and honesty , Freibeuter 47, Wagenbach, Berlin 1991
• Jens Johler: On the human question - speech by a free citizen in two and a half centuries , FAZ, January 29, 2002
• Jens Johler, Christian Stahl: Do not be afraid - letter from the clone to his father , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, December 22, 2002
• Jens Johler, Christian Stahl: The false warning of researchers , FAZ November 22, 2004

Web links

• Official homepage: www.jens-johler.de/
• Failure due to the swinging singles culture
• “God's Brain” - Interview with the thriller author Jens Johler
• www.gottes-gehirn.de
• Literature by and about Jens Johler in the catalog of the German National Library