Kai Hensel

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Kai Hensel (* 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German author.

Life

After graduating from high school , Hensel worked as an advertising copywriter in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . He later worked in various jobs, including as a bartender, dishwasher and museum attendant. In the mid-1990s, Hensel undertook extensive trips through Europe, Africa and Asia. After his return to Germany, Hensel worked for two seasons as a director at the Lübeck Theater .

From 1994 Hensel worked as a screenwriter for numerous television films and series, a. a. "RTL Saturday Night", "Alarm for Cobra 11", "The men from K3". Hensel has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 2000. His first stage drama is the one-person play " Klamm's War ". After its world premiere in 2000 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, it developed into the most frequently performed play in the German-speaking world with over a hundred productions. Hensel's drama “Which drug suits me?” Has been staged over fifty times. Hensel's pieces are played in European and non-European countries.

His first two novels about the investigator and bartender Maria Brecht - "The Perseus Protocol" and "Sundew" - received enthusiastic reviews. “The Perseus Protocol” was produced by WDR 5 as a two-part radio play. “Sundew” was on the shortlist for the 2015 Glauser Prize in the “best novel” category.

Hensel also writes reports on his travels for various newspapers and magazines (including “Tagesspiegel”, “tip”, “Frankfurter Rundschau”).

As a lecturer for creative writing, he teaches at the HFF Munich, the Goethe Institute and the University of Augsburg.

Dramas

• Klamm's War (UA State Theater Dresden)
• Party with a dead negro (UA Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
• Path into the jungle (UA Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
• Which drug is right for me? (UA Theater Freiburg)
• Summer with Girls (UA Braunschweig State Theater)
• You are the enemy (UA Theater Oberhausen)
• Luck in the 21st Century (WP TAG, Vienna / Theater Rampe, Stuttgart)
• The Guinea Pig (UA Drama Essen)

Screenplays cinema

• 1999: Black Souls (Kismet)
• 2005: The day Bobby Ewing died
• 2011: At the end of the day (Festival International du film policier Liège 2012, audience award)

Radio plays

• Path into the jungle (Radio Bremen)
• Klamm's War (MDR)
• Summer with girls (WDR)
• Happiness in the 21st Century (Radio Bremen)
• Your inner voice (WDR)
• Dad is broke (WDR)
• Envy - a motivational training (WDR)
• The Perseus Protocol (WDR)
• The night of the lynx , director: Martin Zylka , 2016, WDR, 53 min.

Novels

• The Perseus Protocol , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt , Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-627-00182-7
• Sundew. A case for Brecht and Velasco , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt , Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-627-00205-3
• Are you happy ?, Hoffmann & Campe , Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3455405880

stories

• Berlin Noir , Akashic Books , New York 2019, ISBN 978-1617756320

Awards

• German Youth Theater Prize
• Baden-Württemberg Youth Theater Prize
• German Short Crime Prize 2002
• Schiller Memorial Prize (grant) from the state of Baden-Württemberg
• Nomination for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2012 "Short Crime"
• Nomination for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2015 "best novel" for "Sonnentau"

Web links

Wikiquote: Kai Hensel  - Quotes

• Kai Hensel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Profile entry Hensels at the stage publisher Kiepenheuer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography of Kai Hensel. From kiepenheuer-medien.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Vanja Budde : In search of the intense life. From deutschlandradiokultur.de , August 29, 2007, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Mini-biography by Kai Hensel. On kinotv.com , accessed on 14 May 2015 . 
4. ↑ biography Vock, Harald. From krimilexikon.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Work statistics of the German Stage Association 2003/04 - youth play "Klamms Krieg" at the top. (No longer available online.) On kulturportal-deutschland.de , August 11, 2005, archived from the original on June 9, 2015 ; accessed on May 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Theater in Germany - Theater Library. At goethe.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Gerd Kuka: Mysterious murder in Haiti. From ndr.de , April 16, 2014, accessed May 14, 2015 . 
8. ^ Bert Rebhandl: Greece: Fiction and Reality. On derstandard.at , April 11, 2012, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
9. ^ Anne Kuhlmeyer: The white men drink sparkling wine. On freitag.de , May 14, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Peter Godazgar: Kai Hensel writes the thriller about the crisis. At mz-web.de , July 6, 2012, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Hans Jörg Wangner: Kai Hensel: "Sundew" The third woman. From stuttgarter-zeitung.de , April 16, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Kai Hensel's “The Perseus Protocol” as a radio play. From phonostar.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} The nominations for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2015 / Ehrenglauser for Heikedine Körting. From buchmarkt.de , February 4, 2015, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Kai Hensel: Under Siberia's hot sun. From tagesspiegel.de , August 31, 2007, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Kai Hensel: The other city: Tehran. From tip-berlin.de , June 15, 2009, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
16. ↑ Scriptwriting course - Department VI - Screenwriting chair - guest lecturers. (No longer available online.) On hff-muenchen.de , formerly in the original ; accessed on May 14, 2015 .  ( 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.    
17. ↑ Creativity is the structuring of magic A “ZeitRaum” workshop with Kai Hensel for Augsburg students of German studies. From presse.uni-augsburg.de , September 7, 2011, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
18. ↑ http://www.phonostar.de/radio/kai-hensels-das-perseus-protokoll-als-hoerspiel/v/80232/2012-09-29
19. ↑ Prize winners. (No longer available online.) On jugendtheater.net , archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Youth Theater Prize - Winner. At jugendtheaterpreis-bw.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
21. ↑ Hensel, Kai. From krimilexikon.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
22. ^ Prize and Prize Winner - 2001 Schiller Prize for Alexander Kluge. Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 13, 2001, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
23. ↑ FRIEDRICH GLAUSER PRICES 2012! The nominees have been chosen! From kriminetz.de , accessed on May 14, 2015 .