Laabs Kowalski

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Laabs Kowalski , bourgeois Lars Michael Laabs , in the painting Kwalski (born May 11, 1962 in Dortmund ) is a German writer , painter , playwright , television author, music journalist , comic book author and musician . Other pseudonyms used by Kowalski and registered with VG Wort are Carlo Stasni, Morrison Lewis, Brasse Hering and Sven Totenkopf.

Life

Kowalski grew up in Dortmund. The book and screenwriter initially studied German , linguistics and library science in Cologne , but dropped out and subsequently worked as a construction assistant, taxi driver and DJ . In 1983 he took part in a joint exhibition with painted works in Kamp-Lintfort . In 1989 he began a second course of studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he studied theater, film and television studies (TFF), German and history . At this time he began to write his novel "The Banner of Venus", which is set in Paris in the 1920s. However, the novel was not published until 1998 by Rendsburger Rake Verlag. Numerous other publications followed.

For a while, Kowalski was the resident author of the Cologne music club “Blue Shell” and an employee of the trendy magazine “1/4 vor”, in which his successful column “Laabs but not least” appeared. Another column, “A True Story of Popular Music,” appeared in Rocks music magazine for three years .

Kowalski has also been writing for television since 1992. In 2007 he was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in the entertainment division. He has written texts for Rudi Carrell , Hans Werner Olm , Mona Sharma , Max Schautzer, Wichart von Roëll , Thomas Koschwitz, Mike Krüger , Markus Maria Profitlich , Jürgen von der Lippe , Atze Schröder , Bernhard Hoëcker , Dirk Bach , Martina Hill and among others many other television stars.

From 2002 to 2010 he headed the Muschel Verlag , whose authors included Katinka Buddenkotte , Dagmar Schönleber , Gudrun Pausewang and Christian Bartel , among others . He then turned to the music business and worked as an A&R manager for various record companies until he founded a record label himself in March 2015, Resistance Art Recordings. Also in 2015 he returned to painting with a retrospective in the Cologne gallery Pop; 68 . Further exhibitions followed, for example in the Cologne gallery K49 and in the bar Königsblut .

In his literary works, Kowalski repeatedly deals with the themes of loss and death.

“In arranging, the author is adding to the original creation, which he considers to have failed, something that we miss in life and in nature. Writing is therefore always a protest against God. "

- Laabs Kowalski

Plays

  • 2010: Schützenstraße '82
  • 2012: Find the Chicken or Reality is where the pizza delivery boy comes from!

Book publications

  • Banner of Venus (Roman, Rendsburg 1998)
  • Taximann (Roman, Rendsburg 1998)
  • My soul is a lousy hotel (stories, Rendsburg 1999)
  • Laabs but not least ... (Columns, Cologne 2000)
  • The heart is a cowboy on an epileptic horse (Gedichte, Köln 2001)
  • Jesus, John Lennon, all the other losers and me (Gedichte, Cologne 2001)
  • This is how you get around all women (Comics and Satire, Cologne 2001)
  • Like a butterfly on the back of a smiling woman (Poems and Stories, Cologne 2002)
  • The strange man in the café (stories, Asperg 2002)
  • Me, Jesus, charlatan (Roman, Asperg 2003)
  • Days of Change - An Angel Turns Up (Roman, Asperg 2003)
  • The Fanal of James Peterson Floyd (Krimi, Asperg 2006; under the pseudonym Morrison Lewis)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeah - 50 Years of Pop & Rock (satirical non-fiction book, Kreuzlingen 2006)
  • A short story about love and death (Asperg 2007)
  • The lampshade's journey through the Congo (Roman, Cologne 2008; under the pseudonym Brasse Hering; with 33 illustrations by Gerwin Kothen)
  • Notes of an arch-idiot - The strange diary entries of John-Henry Picasso Matisse (Satire, Cologne 2008)
  • The painter, the murderer and the narcissus (Roman, Cologne 2009; under the pseudonym Carlo Stasni)
  • Summer of the Dead: The Girl Who Didn't Like Heaven (Roman, Berlin 2011 and Munich 2013)
  • The Ruhr area was so tender - a childhood in the seventies (memories, Berlin 2015)

E-books

  • The Ruhr area was so tender - a childhood in the seventies (memories, 2013)
  • The Painter Who Was Twice (Roman, 2013)
  • The heart is a cowboy on an epileptic horse (Poems, 2013)
  • One night in Cologne on Zülpicher Straße (Novelle, 2013)
  • Notes from an arch-idiot (satire, 2013)
  • Story of a moment (short stories, 2013)
  • Rock Around The Clock - The truth about 60 years of Pop & Rock and nothing but the truth (Satirical non-fiction book, 2013)
  • Of poodles and wolves (story, 2014, original title "Then he's dead")
  • Never Hire a Cassowary (Crazy Stories, 2015)

comics

  • Millet - Despite Existence # 1–21 (Comic magazine, 1982–1998; 2009)
  • Eels # 1 (1996)
  • Zyz, the noble stallion (2009)
  • My Way Comics # 1-15 (2017, series still out)

Working for television (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kowalski, Laabs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laabs, Michael; Laabs, Lars Michael (real name); Stasny, Carlo (pseudonym); Lewis, Morrison (pseudonym); Herring, bream (pseudonym); Totenkopf, Sven (pseudonym); Kwalski (painting)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, painter, playwright, television author and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund