Maik Brüggemeyer

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Maik Brüggemeyer (* 1976 in Riesenbeck ) is a German journalist , critic , translator and author .

Life

Brüggemeyer studied politics, communication and applied cultural sciences in Münster . In 2001 he became editor of the German edition of Rolling Stone . Brüggemeyer writes there on music, literature and film. As a freelance writer, he reviews for the program “Büchermarkt” on Deutschlandfunk literature.

In 2011 his debut novel Das Da-Da-Da-Sein was published by Aufbau Verlag . In it he describes the breakdown of a relationship, underpinned by philosophical and musical quotations. Brüggemeyer's second novel Catfish (2015) playfully deals with the fictional character Bob Dylan.

In 2017, Brüggemeyer's German translation of the memoirs by Go-Betweens songwriter Robert Forster , Grant & Ich was published . 2018 he published his first fiction book, I've Been Looking For Peace: A German Story in ten songs in which he based on popular songs like Capri-Fischer , Franz Josef Degenhardt's German Sunday , Nena's 99 Luftballons or Looking For Freedom in the interpretation by David Hasselhoff tells the story of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Publications

Novels
  • Being there-there-there. Construction Publishing House, Berlin 2011.
  • Catfish. A Bob Dylan novel. Metrolit Verlag, Berlin 2015.
Non-fiction
  • I've Been Looking For Peace: A German Story in Ten Songs . Penguin Verlag, Munich 2018.
  • Pop. A manual. Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019.
Book contributions
  • Ralf von Appen and Thomas Phleps: Pop Sounds: Sound textures in pop and rock music. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2003.
  • Ann-Kathrin Eckardt / Lukas Hillger (eds.): Mom, you've already told us that five times! Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2012.
  • Thomas Kraft: The Beat Goes On. Langen-Müller, Munich 2013.
  • Sebastian Zabel / Arne Willander (eds.): Rolling Stone: The best of 20 years. Metrolit, Berlin 2014.
  • Teresa Präauer: Neue Rundschau 2817/1: Poetic ornithology. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2017.
translation
  • Robert Forster: Grant & Ich , Heyne Encore, Munich 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maik Brüggemeyer: Catfish. Website of the city of Berlin. March 6, 2015, accessed January 8, 2018.
  2. ^ Maik Brüggemeyer - 1 book - Perlentaucher. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Maik Brüggemeyer. Rolling Stone . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Maik Brüggemeyer: anthology on "Current Issues Susan Sontags". Author without fear of contact. Deutschlandfunk . December 19, 2017, accessed January 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Jan Scheper: Legal dispute about existence. taz . August 11, 2011, accessed January 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Julia Friese: "Catfish". How a Berlin author approaches his idol Bob Dylan. Berliner Morgenpost . March 2, 2015, accessed January 8, 2018.
  7. ↑ Grant & I. The go-betweens & the story of an extraordinary friendship. Random House Publishing Group . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  8. ↑ I've been looking for peace. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brüggemeyer, Maik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, critic, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesenbeck