Kai Meyer

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Kai Meyer reading his book Die Seiten der Welt at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Kai Meyer , pseudonyms Alexander Nix and Isa Grimm , (born July 23, 1969 in Lübeck ) is a German writer , journalist and screenwriter . He is a representative of the German fantasy .

biography

Kai Meyer was born in Lübeck in 1969 and grew up in the Rhineland . After graduating from the Franken-Gymnasium in Zülpich in 1988 , he studied film, theater and philosophy for a few semesters and then volunteered for a daily newspaper.

After a few years as a journalist - including for the Cologne tabloid Express and as a film critic for the HOWL magazine - Meyer has been working as a freelance writer since 1995. He published his first book at the age of 24. Since then he has written over 50 novels for adults and young people, as well as comics, scripts and radio plays. Four of his novels were originally published under the pseudonym "Alexander Nix", but are now available under his real name. Based on concepts by Kai Meyer, the American James A. Owen wrote a series entitled Kai Meyers Mythenwelt .

Meyer's most successful works include the trilogy about Merle and the Flowing Queen , with the first volume of which he was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2003 . In addition, he received the CORINE 2005 in the category “Best Children's and Young People's Book” for Frostfeuer . In 2012, the new edition of The Second Face was awarded the Vincent Prize for the best horror novel. Asche & Phönix was awarded the Fantastik-Literaturpreis Seraph as “Best Book” in 2013 , followed in 2015 by the award for Die Seiten der Welt . Two years later he won the German Fantastic Prize for his novel Die Seiten der Welt - Blood Book .

The director Dominik Graf filmed Meyer's novel The Vow in 2007 - based on the life of the writer Clemens Brentano . A theater version premiered in Koblenz in summer 2013.

The worldwide circulation of his novels is several million copies. Meyer's works have been translated into over 30 languages.

In 2015 he and other authors founded the Fantastic Authors Network (PAN).

Works

Brothers Grimm

  1. The ghost seers. Rütten & Loening 1995
  2. The winter princess. Rütten & Loening 1997

Doctor Faustus

  1. Doctor Faustus. Heyne 1999 (anthology of The Angel Pact & The Dream Father )
    • The Angel Pact. ATB 1996
    • The dream father. ATB 1996
  1. The angel warriors. Heyne 2000
  2. Faustus. Lübbe 2007 (anthology of the entire trilogy)

Nibelung gold

  • Nibelung gold. Heyne 2001 (complete edition)
    1. The raven god. Econ 1997
    2. The dragon song. Econ 1997 (as Alexander Nix)
    3. The dwarf war. Econ 1997 (as Alexander Nix)
    4. The witch queen. Econ 1997 (as Alexander Nix)

The alchemist

  1. The alchemist. Heyne 1998 (completely revised in 2011)
  2. The immortal. Heyne 2001 (completely revised in 2011)
  3. The banned. Heyne 2012

Meyer describes the Alchemist series as a family saga of fantasy, which he hopes to write more volumes of in the future.

Merle or The Trilogy about Merle and the Flowing Queen

  1. Merle - The Flowing Queen. Loewe 2001
  2. Merle - The Stone Light. Loewe 2002
  3. Merle - The Transparent Word. Loewe 2002
  4. Serafin - The Cold Fire . Sauerland 2019

The wave runner

  1. The wave runner. Loewe 2003
  2. The shell magicians. Loewe 2004
  3. The water weavers. Loewe 2004

The cloud people

  1. Silk and sword. Loewe 2006
  2. Lance and light. Loewe 2007
  3. Dragon and diamond. Loewe 2007

The Storm Kings

  1. Jinnland. Luebbe 2008
  2. Wish war. Luebbe 2009
  3. Embersand. Luebbe 2009

Arcadia

  1. Arcadia awakens. Carlsen 2009
  2. Arcadia is on fire. Carlsen 2010
  3. Arcadia falls. Carlsen 2011

Unlike the previous series, the Arcadia series was not planned as a trilogy. Nevertheless, it initially consists of three volumes with the option of sequels.

The sides of the world

  1. The Pages of the World , Fischer FJB 2014
  2. The Pages of the World - Night Land , Fischer FJB 2015
  3. The Pages of the World - Blood Book , Fischer FJB 2016
  4. The trail of books , Fischer FJB 2017
  5. The Pact of Books , Fischer FJB 2018

The crown of the stars

  1. The Crown of the Stars , Fischer Tor 2017
  2. The Crown of the Stars - Witch Power , Fischer Tor 2018
  3. The crown of the stars - machine gods Fischer Tor 2019

The Seven Seals (children's book series)

  1. The return of the warlock. Loewe 1999
  2. The black stork. Loewe 1999
  3. The catacombs of Damiano. Loewe 1999
  4. The thorn man. Loewe 1999
  5. Shadow angel. Loewe 2000
  6. The night of the living scarecrows. Loewe 2000
  7. Demons of the deep. Loewe 2000
  8. Devilish Halloween. Loewe 2000
  9. Gate between the worlds. Loewe 2001
  10. Moonwalker. Loewe 2002
  11. Beyond the millennium. Loewe 1999 (special issue)

Single novels

  • The crossword killer . Luebbe 1993
  • Network of silence. Luebbe 1994
  • The rat spell. Rütten and Loening 1995
  • The shadow eater. Rütten and Loening 1996
    • Revised new edition: Blitz 2016
  • Hex. Econ 1997
    • Revised new edition: Blitz 2018
  • Gable shade. Metzengerstein 1998 (short stories)
    • Revised new edition: Mythopolis 2012
  • The vow. Heyne 1998
  • Loreley . Econ 1998 (as Alexander Nix)
    • As Kai Meyer: Heyne 2001
    • Revised new edition: Blitz 2016
  • Goddess of the desert, Heyne 1999
    • Revised new edition: Blitz 2014
  • Daedalus's house , Heyne 2000
    • New edition under the title The Vatican Conspiracy: Heyne 2005
    • Revised new edition: Blitz 2018
  • The second face. Heyne 2002
    • Revised new edition: Blitz 2012
  • The Book of Eden . Luebbe 2004
  • Frostfire. Loewe 2005
  • Mistress of Lies, Lübbe 2006
  • Ashes and Phoenix, Carlsen 2012
  • Phantasms, Carlsen 2014
  • Klammroth . Bastei Lübbe 2014 (as Isa Grimm)

Kai Meyer's world of myths

(by James A. Owen , based on Kai Meyer's ideas)

Scripts

Awards

  • Nomination of the Flowing Queen for the German Book Prize 2003
  • Corine 2005 - Best Children's and Young People's Book for Frostfeuer
  • Marsh Award 2007 - Best Children's Book in Translation for The Flowing Queen
  • Nomination for The Flowing Queen for the Locus Award 2006 as best book for young people
  • Ohrkanus 2007 - Best radio play for The Vatican Conspiracy
  • Ohrkanus 2008 - Best radio play for The Alchemist
  • Nomination of the film adaptation of The Vow for the Grimme Prize 2009
  • LovelyBooks Readers Award 2009 - 2nd place for Arcadia awakes
  • Ohrkanus 2010 - Best radio play for Die Wellenläufer
  • LovelyBooks Readers Award 2010 - 2nd place and best cover / cover for Arcadia is burning
  • Vincent Prize 2010 - Best radio play for Die Geisterseher
  • LovelyBooks Readers Award 2011 - 2nd place for Arcadia falls
  • Vincent Prize 2011 - Best radio play for Die Winterprinzessin
  • Prix ​​Imaginales 2012 for silk and sword
  • Vincent Prize 2012 - Best Novel for The Second Face and Best Radio Play for Loreley
  • Fantastic Literature Prize Seraph 2013 - Best Fantastic Novel for Ashes and Phoenix
  • LovelyBooks Reader Award 2013 - 3rd place for Most Popular Author
  • Lovelybooks reader Price 2014 - 2nd place for Beliebtester author and for the sides of the world second place as youth book and first place as the Best Book Cover
  • Fantastic Literature Prize Seraph 2015 - Best Fantastic Novel for Die Seiten der Welt
  • Deutscher Phantastik Preis 2017 - Best German Novel: The Pages of the World: Blood Book
  • Deutscher Phantastik Preis 2018 - Best German Novel: The Crown of the Stars

Adaptations

Movie

  • The film adaptation of the novel The Vow. Director: Dominik Graf , 2007

comics

  • Engel: Pandoramicum (Dieter Jüdt), Feder & Schwert 2001
  • The wave runner (Christian Nauck, Sven Strangmeyer, Yann Krehl), Ehapa 2007
  • The Cloud People (Ralf Schlueter, Yann Krehl), Splitter 2008
  • Frostfeuer ( Marie Sann , Yann Krehl), Splitter 2011
  • The meat of the many (Jurek Malottke), Splitter 2018
  • The Crown of Stars (Ralf Schlueter, Yann Krehl), Splitter 2019

Audio books

In addition, the short stories Minced Meat , The Storage Man and Look! read into anthologies by Kai Meyer.

Radio plays

  • Sieben Siegel (Volumes 1–5), Meteor-Labor 2002
  • The Vatican Conspiracy. Lübbe Audio 2007
  • The cloud people. The Hörverlag 2007
  • The burning shadow (prehistory to the Merle trilogy), Lübbe Audio 2007
  • The alchemist. Lübbe Audio 2008
  • The Klabauterkrieg (prehistory to the wave runner trilogy), Lübbe Audio 2008
  • The wave runner. Lübbe Audio 2009
  • The ghost seers. Zaubermond Audio 2009
  • The winter princess. Zaubermond Audio 2011
  • Loreley. Zaubermond Audio 2013
  • Merle. Holysoft 2016
  • Arcadia. Holysoft 2017
  • The Storm Kings. Holysoft 2018
  • Imperator , Season 1. Audible 2019

Music albums

  • Seven seals - the soundtrack. Meteor Laboratory 2002
  • The Book of Eden. Violet 2007
  • Arcane - Music inspired by the Works of Kai Meyer. Elane 2011
  • Expired Episode 1: Astoria. ASP 2015 (inspired by Kai Meyer's short story The Meat of the Many )
  • Arcane 2 - Music inspired by the Works of Kai Meyer. Elane 2017

literature

Marcel Feige : Historical Fantastic. A conversation with Kai Meyer, in: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1999. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , Munich, ISBN 3-453-14984-X , pp. 763-777.

Web links

Commons : Kai Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry Meyer, Kai (Ps. Alexander Nix) , in: Andreas Klimt (Red.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2010 | 2011, De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 704; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Official website of the Fantastic Academy. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ Biography of Kai Meyer. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Unite genre interests - German writers set up fantastic authors network. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Interview with Kai Meyer. Phantastik-Couch.de, November 2011, accessed on June 11, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Literature Awards 2018. literaturpreisgewinner.de, accessed on October 24, 2018 .
  7. ^ Audiobook short stories by Kai Meyer. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Kai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nix, Alexander (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist, screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck