Joy Markert

Joy Markert (* 1942 in Tuttlingen , Württemberg ) is a German writer , radio play author and writer of film scripts .

biography

Joy Markert was born as Hans-Günter Markert in the Swabian town of Tuttlingen an der Donau, and grew up in Stuttgart with a single mother and three sisters. After completing secondary school and training as an inspector, Markert went to Berlin in 1964, where he worked as a city inspector. A. worked in the youth welfare office in Wilmersdorf. At first he lived with Rosa von Praunheim in a flat share in Charlottenburg , published a magazine for poetry and graphics, then moved to Kreuzberg in a factory flat with his first wife Angela Neumann and with Elfi Mikesch , Fritz Mikesch and other artists.

In 1968 he left the civil service and founded a Trebegängerkommune for street children in Kreuzberg. He learned the craft of film from directors and in the 1970s worked mainly as a screenwriter and assistant director to Robert van Ackeren and made his own short and experimental films. Later he wrote scripts for television plays, plays, poetry and short stories, then increasingly preferred the radio (radio plays, radio short stories , essays , stories and radio plays for children, features).

In the 1980s, Markert was a board member in the BAF Berlin Film Working Group in the VS district of (West) Berlin. a. A “Week of Maltese Literature” with Maltese writers in Berlin, which resulted in the first German-language anthology of this literature. He had an apartment in Malta for a long time . His texts, wrote the illustrated city newspaper of Berlin zitty in 1989 after the publication of his book on Malta, were "perceptual arts" and "little moments of happiness" . In the same year, the SFB broadcast a radio essay by media scientist Manfred Mixner about the author with the title “From the wisdom of feeling” , in which he described Markert as a writer with “subversion strategies” , which also meant a political stance.

In the 1990s he was a freelance lecturer for the UFA Group and teamworx Berlin. Joy Markert has been married to the author Sibylle Nägele since 1995 , they both live in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Works (selection)

Books Potsdamer Strasse . Stories, myths and metamorphoses, together with Sibylle Nägele, Berlin 2006 Nachtcafé Schroffenstein , together with Sibylle Nägele, Berlin 1994 Malta - Journeys of an unsuspecting person to the Stone Age , Rieden 1989, 2nd edition 1990 Asylum , Berlin 1985 Movies / TV plays (script) The goddess of Malta, 1996 I feel what you don't feel (script and direction), together with Helga Krauss, 1982 The other smile , together with Robert van Ackeren, 1978 Belcanto, together with Robert van Ackeren, 1977 The latest craze , together with van Ackeren and Iris Wagner , 1975 Harlis, together with van Ackeren and Iris Wagner, awarded the Federal Film Prize and the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1972 theatre Erichs Day, Berlin 1987 Asylum, Berlin 1984

Radio plays Jil and Khaled - a new case for Cher Ebinger, crime radio play, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2015 (52'58 min.) Der Mendelssohnriss, detective radio play, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2014 (54'25 min.) The Chamissofalle, detective radio play, DKultur 2011 (approx. 56'30 min.) The Beat Goes On or Die Hölderlinakte, detective radio play, DKultur 2010 (54'30 min.) The Hechinger Madonna, 2008 Diakonissenkrimis series, 2003–2007 Salammbô, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert , 2003 Accordion, 1988 Snail shell syndrome and the desire to go outside (script and direction together with Augustin Jagg), 1986 Human chain (and direction), 1985 The Hippie Official (and Director), 1979 Other radio works: especially for the RBB (formerly SFB) numerous “passages” programs and children's stories for ear bears .

Web links

• http://www.joymarkert.de/
• Joy Markert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Joy Markert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joy Markert's children's stories in Ear Bear

Individual references, comments

1. ↑ zitty 17/89, p. 185
2. ↑ SFB 1, April 2, 1989
3. ↑ Radio Stories for Little People , accessed March 16, 2016
4. ↑ First broadcast Jil and Khaled , Deutschlandradio Kultur March 2016
5. ↑ http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/medien/hoerpro/prdrb699.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.