Manja Prekels

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Manja Präkels (born December 21, 1974 in Zehdenick , Mark) is a German writer , musician and journalist .

Live and act

Prekels' mother was a teacher. Until 1998 she worked as a local reporter in Brandenburg. She signed her contract with the Märkische Allgemeine with the then publisher Alexander Gauland . She studied philosophy and sociology at the Free University of Berlin . In 2000 she conducted interviews with left-wing and right-wing radical youth, from which the ZDF documentary Die Zecken von Zehdenick emerged. In 2001 she initiated the Berlin Erich Mühsam Festival and founded the band Der Singende Tresen as a singer . In 2004 her first volume of poetry was published , Tresenlieder , and in 2005 the Singing Tresens CD. Präkels lives in Berlin.

Since 2002 several song theater programs and pieces for children's theater have been created with co-author Markus Liske , with whom she has also been running the "Thought Manufactory WORT & TON" since 2009. Since then, the anthologies Kaltland - Eine Sammlung (2011) and Achtung Volk! (2015) as well as the Erich Mühsam reading book That you dogs are worth! (2014).

Between August 2015 and May 2016, Präkels published the serial novel Im Anwohnerpark in the daily newspaper .

In 2017 her autobiographical novel When I Ate Schnapskirschen with Hitler was published , which describes the final years of the GDR and the social upheavals after the fall of the Wall in a small town in Brandenburg. In 2018 she was awarded the Anna Seghers Prize and the German Youth Literature Prize for this novel . "A story from the Brandenburg province, with horror moments, from the turning point to the present day. Manja Präkels experienced most of it herself in the nineties, in Zehdenick in the Oberhavel district, a good hour from Berlin. In the book it is condensed and pointed but true. She left out the particularly disturbing stories, says the author. Because she lacks the language for them, "wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In December 2018, the book was at number 17 on the "Belletristik Independent" bestseller list in the German book trade journal .

Articles and essays have appeared a. in the daily newspaper , Der Spiegel , Jungle World , Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , telegraph and in the publication series of the Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft , Lübeck.

Biblio and discography

Participation in:

Stage work

Children's plays

  • The Raven in the Snow (2002)
  • A mole in Berlin (2003)
  • Ghost hour in the raven forest (2005)
  • The Christmas Bunny (2006)
  • The pirate treasure (2008)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chrismon 11/2019, p. 19.
  2. ↑ chrismon 11/2019, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Through the area | Manja Präkels | Four thousand hundredths | The podcast label. November 7, 2019, accessed on November 17, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Zehdenick doesn't want to be on TV . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 22, 1999
  5. ↑ Erich Mühsam Festival 2004 . New Germany
  6. ↑ The Singing Bar
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ^ [2] Collected press reviews at Verbrecher Verlag
  9. ↑ Report by Anna Fastabend: When your own home is scary . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 20, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Manja Präkels: Dealing with the Second World War in the GDR: Under the grass the bones . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 4, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on May 6, 2020]).
  11. ^ Mo Winkler: Clowns in the Rain from Der Singende Tresen in Berlin on March 8, 2007. In: FolkWorld , issue 33, May 2007; Retrieved January 23, 2009
  12. ↑ Review of Clowns in the Rain ( Memento from January 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Song best list 2005, curfew music , accessed January 23, 2009
  14. ^ German Youth Literature Prize. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Precels, Manja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, composer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Zehdenick