Josef Mahlmeister

Josef Mahlmeister (born June 26, 1959 in Bad Kissingen ) is a German educator , storyteller , writer and Cologne-based small publisher .

Live and act

Josef Mahlmeister grew up in the Catholic children's home in Hammelburg . After training as a typesetter in the Birkeneck educational center in Hallbergmoos and working in Heilbronn , he moved to Cologne in 1983 , where he completed a second training as an educator and then worked in various day care facilities.

His work with children supported his preoccupation with children's and youth literature. Since the early 1990s he has been publishing his own work, mostly self-publishing . From 1982 to 1988, among other things, ten booklets of the "Kunterbunten Reihe" with 20 or 40 poems were published. In his "motley series" he also designed texts in modern visual and concrete poetry . This poetry was brought to the public in performances and readings .

Mahlmeister was the translator of the plays Wachtmeister Waldi (German premiere in 2000 in Cologne) and Satina the devil's daughter of the French writer Pierre Gripari . Occasionally he publishes reviews in various smaller cultural magazines such as " Die Gazette ".

In the middle of 2012 he became a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di, Cologne district, from which he left in January 2013 for ideational reasons.

Josef Mahlmeister appears as a storyteller under his pseudonym Palabros de Cologne .

Publishing house Palabros de Cologne

Mahlmeister founded the small publishing house Palabros de Cologne in 1998, which publishes poetry , children's books and regional, sometimes multilingual anthologies in editions of a few hundred copies , many of them with their own graphics and photos. In addition to his own works, works by other authors such as Cheryl Chapman , Pierre Gripari, Klaus Hansen , Byron W. Sewell and illustrators such as Bonski , Miguel E. Riveros and Lusja Shatalova appear there .

The program included (from 2009 to 2014) the language learning series "WODOKU", which is based on the Japanese Sudoku . From 2014 it was taken over in an expanded reprint edition by the Munich Hueber Verlag . In addition to translations, in recent years he has increasingly turned to the genre of angels and cemeteries . This resulted in a photo book series about cemeteries, as the Cologne cemetery Melaten , the South Cemetery , the old part of Cologne's North Cemetery , the West Cemetery and the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Works

Cover of the series Kunterbunte Gedichte

• The magic stories of the magician Mirabellum and the witch Schlapperspeck. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-9806184-0-4 .
• Gschichtles for children and with children. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-9806184-1-2 .
• Cologne poems from the motley series. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-9806184-2-0 .
• The nursery rhyme company. Plays. Teiresias, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-9805860-8-1 .
• Love, stomach ache, teddy bear. Poems of love and grief. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-9806184-8-X .
• The wondrous magic stories of Master Jobs. Thought fragments from the everyday life of a Cologne educator. BoD, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-9806184-4-7 .
• Transformed wilderness. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-9806184-9-8 .
• The angels don't just live on Melaten. Photo tape. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810559-7-9 .
• The Cologne Melaten Cemetery and the Vienna Central Cemetery. Photo tape. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810559-8-6 .
• Angels, children and muses in the south cemetery in Cologne. Photo book with stories . Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810559-9-3 .
• Peace and quiet in the old north cemetery and the Cologne west cemetery . A photo book with stories from Cologne. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813632-1-0 .
• People from Cologne also travel to Düsseldorf for Japan Day . A photo book with associations from 2010 and 2011. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813632-2-7 .
• Pierre Gripari and his Rue Broca stories . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-656-18613-7 .
• You shouldn't get old! Novel with poems. CreateSpace, Charleston 2014, ISBN 978-1-4975-8352-8 .
• Angels from Bonn, Cologne, Paris and Vienna . A photo book with 50 angels in SW. CreateSpace, Charleston 2014, ISBN 978-1-4992-0515-2 .
• Get rich with your own texts as a ghostwriter? . CreateSpace, Charleston 2014, ISBN 978-1-5001-0058-2 .
• Every graffiti screams its story! . A Cologne photo book in color, CreateSpace, Charleston 2014, ISBN 978-1-5010-1657-8 .
• The strange dream of Posinko the German flamingo . A picture book from the Cologne Zoo, with illustrations by Josef Mahlmeister, CreateSpace, Charleston 2014, ISBN 978-1-5029-5589-0 .
• Cologne's ghost train on Valentine's Day 2015 . Photo book with pictures from Cologne, in color, CreateSpace, Charleston 2015, ISBN 978-1-5088-1514-3 .
• The crucian carp pond . Photo book, in color, CreateSpace, Charleston 2018, ISBN 978-1-72566-232-2 .
• Three road tours and always follow your nose! . Travel report and photo book, in color, CreateSpace, Charleston 2018, ISBN 978-1-77335-149-2 .

Translations

• Pierre Gripari: Sergeant Waldi. Attached work: Satina the devil's daughter. Translated from the French and edited by Josef Mahlmeister. Teiresias, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-9805860-7-3 .
• Cheryl Chapman: Dracko Dragon Eater. From American English and edited by Josef Mahlmeister. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-9806184-7-1 .
• Cheryl Chapman, Ilona Garrett, Byron W. Sewell, Victoria Sewell: Angels are stupid. Bilingual anthology. With contributions from American English and edited by Josef Mahlmeister. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806184-3-4 .
• Pierre Gripari: The magic stories from Rue Broca. Thirteen children's stories: Les contes de la rue Broca. Translated from the French and edited by Josef Mahlmeister. With b / w illustrations by Tine Decker and Michael Kämpfer. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813632-0-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Mahlmeister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Palabros de Cologne publishing house
• The Gazette - Review of Pierre Gripari