Joey Goebel
Joey Goebel , actually Adam Joseph Goebel III. , (Born September 2, 1980 in Henderson , Kentucky ) is an American author .
His works treat the idiosyncrasies of popular culture in the American Midwest in a satirical way . In doing so, he criticizes what he perceives as the bland mediocrity of small-town life from the perspective of estranged residents.
Life
Joey Goebel was born in 1980 to Adam Goebel and Nancy Bingemer. Both the parents and his older sister CeCe are social workers . He wrote his first story at the age of five. Before he published his debut novel with The Anomalies (name of the German-language edition: Freaks ) in 2003, he was the front man , guitarist and songwriter of the punk band The Mullets and toured the American Midwest between 1996 and 2001. He was later a singer and guitarist with the band Novembrists , with whom he released a CD.
In 2005 Vincent was published as his first book in German . It was followed by Freaks in 2006 , Heartland in 2009 and Me versus Osborne in 2013 . All four novels were published by Diogenes Verlag .
Goebel holds a bachelor's degree in English from Brescia College in Owensboro , Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Louisville .
After four novels, the Kentucky writer published his first volume of short stories, Someday It Will Be Good . All of the stories share an emotional state, all the protagonists are very lonely, and an attitude that protects against tipping over into the merely emotional: "the joke with which you see yourself and the one with which the author draws you".
Works
- Freaks . Translated by Hans M. Herzog. Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-257-06546-9 . (The Anomalies, 2003)
- Vincent . Translated by Hans M. Herzog and Matthias Jendis . Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-06485-3 . (Torture the Artist, 2004)
- Heartland . Translated by Hans M. Herzog. Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06694-4 . ( Commonwealth , 2008)
- Me against Osborne . Translated by Hans M. Herzog. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06853-5 . ( I Against Osborne , original not yet published)
- At some point it will be fine . Translated by Hans M. Herzog. Diogenes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07059-0 . (I know It's Going to Happen For You Someday)
Web links
- Literature by and about Joey Goebel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joey Goebel's Homepage (Engl.)
- Author presentation by Diogenes Verlag
- The Patriot. - Interview with Joey Goebel about his book "Heartland" in the magazine uMag (April 2009)
- The art of suffering . Carmela Welge on the Vincent translation into German. ReLÜ , Review Journal , 2, 2005
supporting documents
- ↑ Fridtjof Küchemann: Stories by Joey Goebel: So you think I'm scary? , Review in the FAZ on June 25, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goebel, Joey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goebel, Adam Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Henderson , Kentucky |