Joachim Hammann

Joachim Hammann, 2014

Joachim Hammann (* 1946 in Düsseldorf ) is a German writer , film scholar and screenwriter . He writes novels, short stories, detective novels and non-fiction books.

biography

Joachim Hammann went to school in the Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf- Oberkassel and in the institute on the Rosenberg in St. Gallen (Switzerland). In his teenage years he wrote several articles, poems and short stories for the school newspaper Cecinius , the literary role models at that time were Arno Schmidt and John Lennon. He wanted to become a drummer and played with the musicians Michael Karoli , Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Florian Schneider-Esleben , Bodo Staiger and Holger Clausen.

He studied political science , philosophy and psychology in Berlin and Munich and did his doctorate at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut of the University of Munich under Theo Stammen with an examination of a certain figure of thought in political theory which he calls "allotopia".

After graduating, he worked for the authors' film publishing house and was head of its world sales for four years. From 1982 he worked as a freelance screenwriter and also as a dramaturge , script doctor and screenwriter at Beta-Taurus Film ( Kirch Group ). He also produced the 1984 movie Jagger and Spaghetti .

In 2006 Hamman's film studies book Die Heldenreise im Film (2006) was published, which is based on his preoccupation with mythology , CG Jung's thinking and film dramaturgy. In 2006 his debut novel The Harmony of the World , a crime story, was published. Since then he has published a number of other novels and short stories.

Books

Short story

• A conversation on the fence (with Arno Schmidt) , in: I was blown away. Arno Schmidt as a defining reading experience. 100 statements and stories. Rudi Schweikert (Ed.), 2004, ISBN 3-924147-55-8

Novels

• The Harmony of the World , 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-4511-5
• Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and Jesus , 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-8673-3
• The Light of Truth , 2017, ISBN 978-3-7460-3140-8
• The last Venice Carnival , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-1616-3
• The Harmony of the World , 2006, ISBN 3-627-00137-0

stories

• One Night Stand. A Tale of Love , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-1051-2
• The tiger who wanted to be a goat , 2011, ISBN 978-83-62905-20-1
• The tiger who wanted to be a goat , new edition, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-0539-7

Non-fiction

• Allotopia or The Real and the Real Reality . Diss., Munich, 1977
• The Hero's Journey in Film , 2007, ISBN 978-38-61507-62-8
• The hero's journey in the film. Improved and updated new version 2015 , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-3474-8

Scripts

• All Out (other title: Exit Genua ), 1991, with Thomas Koerfer and Bernard Stora
• Die Diebin , 1999, with Marcus Cochemer and Michael von Petschau Aussenberg, Claudia Ziegler (story)
• The Man in Salt , 1989, with Rainer Wolffhardt, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer
• Der Unfried , 1986, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer
• Please let the flowers live , 1986, based on the novel by Johannes Mario Simmel
• Seitenstechen , 1985, with Mike Krüger, based on the novel by Bernd Späth
• Nonni and Manni , 1988, with Richard Cooper, Radu Gabrea, Joshua Sinclair, Jón Sveinnson
• Frankenstein's aunt , 1987, with Juraj Jakubisko, Alan Rune Petterson, Jaroslav Dietl
• Keep on Running , 1991, with Thomas Gottschalk and Martin Rauhaus

Treatment

• Blue Moon , 1984

literature

• Marciniak, Malgorzata: The hero's journey in the work of Joachim Hammann. Volume I: Between Myth and Everyday Magic . Volumes, 2014, ISBN 978-837867212-8
• Marciniak, Malgorzata: The hero's journey in the work of Joachim Hammann. Volume II: The King's Soul . Volumes, 2017, ISBN 978-83-7867-742-0
• Ficociello, Nicole: The hero's journey in the Pixar house: An analysis of the films "Finding Nemo" and "Ratatouille" , Diplomica Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-83668173-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doctoral theses supervised by Theo Stammen , in: The scientist Theo Stammen, p. 355 (PDF file, 2.7 MB)
2. ↑ IMDB entry (September 26, 2014)

Web links

• Joachim Hammann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author website
• Joachim Hamman on bücherwiki.de