Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling (2017)

Marc-Uwe Kling (* 1982 in Stuttgart ) is a German singer-songwriter , comedian , cabaret artists and author .

Life

Marc-Uwe Kling on 34c3

Marc-Uwe Kling is the youngest of four children of two forwarding agents. His father is a hobby musician, Kling learned the piano and guitar as a child. At 20 he moved to Berlin. There he studied philosophy and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2003 he has appeared on Berlin stages. He is also a guest at reading stages and poetry slams in Germany. In 2005 he founded the Lesedüne reading stage together with Kolja Reichert, Maik Martschinkowsky and Sebastian Lehmann . From 2005 to 2008, Kling was on tour with the solo program If all else fails, you can no longer even hang up , now his current program is based on his Kangaroo trilogy . In 2006 and 2007 he won the individual competition at the German-speaking Poetry Slam Championships .

Works

Books

The kangaroo trilogy

→ Main article : The Kangaroo Chronicles

Kling is the author of the podcast News from the Kangaroo , which was heard weekly on the Fritz radio station . In 2010 he and the producer team were awarded the German Radio Prize for this. The texts were published in print and as audio books in the volumes Die Kangaroo Chronicles , The Kangaroo Manifesto and The Kangaroo Revelation . His first studio album Marc-Uwe Kling & Die Gesellschaft was released on January 15, 2011 . The Kangaroo Revelation was published in March 2014. Kling read a chapter from it in the asylum on November 18, 2014. New stories are regularly presented at the Lesedüne reading stage . A fourth part entitled The Kangaroo Apocrypha , which is not intended to begin another trilogy, but only to provide an encore, was released on October 12, 2018. On March 1, 2018 the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg announced that it would be funding a film adaptation of the first book by Dani Levy with € 800,000. The film premiered on March 5, 2020.

QualityLand

→ Main article : Qualityland

In 2017, Kling's “funny dystopia” QualityLand appeared , with which he went on tour. In March 2019 it became known that the private TV broadcaster HBO was planning a series adaptation of the novel by Mike Judge .

Concert series and music albums

Marc-Uwe Kling at a concert in Düsseldorf.

In 2015, Kling started a concert tour with the cabaret artists Michael Krebs and Julius Fischer as the working group Future called Viel Schöne hier . The events were spread all over Germany and almost always sold out. The songs deal with socially critical topics, such as fast pace, society or self-exploitation in professional life .: In addition to the tours, two albums were also produced with Viel Schöne hier (2016) and Das next Großes Ding (2019).

Awards

Marc-Uwe Kling, winner of Cabaret Kaktus 2006

2006

• Bielefeld Cabaret Prize 1st Prize
• Grazer Kleinkunstvogel
• Winner of the German-speaking Poetry Slam Championships (individual)
• Munich cabaret cactus
• Youth cultural advancement award, 1st prize

2007

• The Rostock cog puller in gold
• Silver broom from Stuttgart
• Winner of the German-speaking Poetry Slam Championships (individual)
• Foal from Lower Saxony

2010

• Minden stickleback sponsorship award
• German Radio Prize in the Best Comedy category for news about the kangaroo (together with the radio Fritz producer team )

2011

• Bavarian Cabaret Prize High-flyer prize

2012

• German cabaret award in the cabaret category

2013

• German audio book award in the category "The special audio book / Best entertainment" for The Kangaroo Chronicles. Live and unabridged

2014

• LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Humor category for The Kangaroo Revelation

2018

• Audiobook Award : QualityLand ( Platinum )
• Audiobook Award: The Kangaroo Chronicles (7 × gold)
• Audiobook Award: The Kangaroo Manifesto (2 × platinum)
• Audiobook Award: The Kangaroo Revelation (2 × Platinum)
• Audiobook Award: The Kangaroo Apocrypha (Gold)
• German Science Fiction Award for QualityLand
• LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Best Audiobook category for The Kangaroo Apocrypha

2019

• LovelyBooks reader award in the picture book category for Das NEINhorn

Publications

Books

• The kangaroo chronicles . Views of a cheeky marsupial (=  Ullstein 37257 ). Ullstein, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-37257-0 .
• The Kangaroo Manifesto (=  Ullstein 37383 ). Ullstein, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-37383-6 (304 pages).
• With Julius Fischer , Sebastian Lehmann , Maik Martschinkowsky and Kolja Reichert: About waking and sleeping: system-relevant humor. The reading dune book . Voland & Quist, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86391-013-6 .
• The kangaroo revelation . Ullstein, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-548-37513-7 (400 pages).
• Princess Booger Head . Voland & Quist, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86391-116-4 (36 pages).
• The Kangaroo Trilogy (Volume 1–3) . Ullstein, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-548-37623-3 (976 pages).
• With Julius Fischer , Sebastian Lehmann and Maik Martschinkowsky: About working and being ready. Real humor . Voland & Quist, Dresden, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86391-113-3 .
• QualityLand (dark edition) . Ullstein, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-550-05015-2 .
• QualityLand (light edition) . Ullstein, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-550-05023-7 .
• The Ostermann . Carlsen, 2017, ISBN 978-3-551-51935-1 .
• The kangaroo apocrypha . Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-548-29195-6 (208 pages).
• The day grandma broke the internet . Carlsen, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-51679-4 (72 pages). Illustrations by Astrid Henn .
• The NO horn . Carlsen, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 3-551-51841-6 (48 pages). Illustrations by Astrid Henn.

Sound carrier

• If all else fails, you can't even hang yourself anymore. Recorded on October 26th and 27th, 2007 in the Mehringhof-Theater Berlin . WortArt, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-931780-93-7 (audio book).
• Marc-Uwe Kling and society . WortArt, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-941082-39-7 (audio CD).
• The kangaroo chronicles . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86909-017-7 (4 audio CDs).
• The kangaroo manifesto . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86909-075-7 (4 audio CDs).
• The kangaroo revelation. Live and unabridged. Live recording, recorded in the Mehringhof Theater Berlin . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86909-135-8 (6 audio CDs).
• Lots of nice things . Voland & Quist, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86391-118-8 (audio CD).
• QualityLand (Light Edition); Live recording, recorded in the Mehringhof Theater Berlin in July 2017 . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95713-101-0 (7 audio CDs).
• QualityLand (Dark Edition); Live recording, recorded in the Mehringhof Theater Berlin in July 2017 . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95713-094-5 (7 audio CDs).
• The day grandma broke the internet. Silberfisch, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7456-0013-1 (audio CD, 40 minutes).
• The kangaroo apocrypha . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-95713-149-2 (4 audio CDs).

script

• 2020: The Kangaroo Chronicles

Others

• The wrong calendar . Voland & Quist, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86391-018-1 .
• Hold it a minute! Card game, Kosmos 2016, EAN 4002051740382
• The terrible calendar . Voland & Quist, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86391-168-3 .
• Game of Quotes . Card game, Kosmos 2017, EAN 4002051692926
• The wrong calendar 2 . Voland & Quist, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86391-219-2 .
• Quiztopia . Board game, Kosmos 2019, EAN 4002051694296

Web links

Commons : Marc-Uwe Kling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Marc-Uwe Kling  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Marc-Uwe Kling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marc-Uwe Kling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Personal web presence
• Lars creates: Marc-Uwe Kling. In: belletristik-couch.de. www.belletristik-couch.de, accessed on February 10, 2016 . 
• Britta Weddeling: FOCUS Online: Radically poetic. In: focus.de. FOCUS Online, accessed on February 10, 2016 . 
• Elisabeth von Thadden : System criticism: Schnapps pralines for animals. In: Zeit Online. Retrieved February 10, 2016 . 
• Video: QualityLand - Reading on the 34C3 . Chaos Computer Club 2017, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.5446 / 34917 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elmar Krämer: The jump onto the stage: cabaret artist Marc-Uwe Kling and his kangaroo. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. December 6, 2010, accessed March 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The reading dune: Dune explanation. In: www.leseduene.blogspot.de. Retrieved March 18, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Programs - Marc-Uwe Kling. In: www.marcuwekling.de. Retrieved June 5, 2016 . 
4. ^ Fritz broadcast "Unsigned" nominated for radio prize , rbb, August 13, 2015
5. ↑ New album: "Marc-Uwe Kling & Die Gesellschaft" On: marcuwekling.de. Retrieved November 17, 2012
6. ↑ The Kangaroo Apocrypha. In: Ullstein book publishers . October 12, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018 .  
7. ↑ The "Kangaroo Chronicles" get a fourth part. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 18, 2018, accessed May 19, 2018 .  
8. ↑ Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (ed.): This is how film spring can come! We look forward to fresh projects from Caroline Link, Katja von Garnier, Anne Zohra Berrached & Vanessa Jopp and their colleagues Til Schweiger, Dani Levy & Lars Kraume . March 1, 2018 ( medienboard.de [accessed March 2, 2018]).
9. ^ Period from November 1, 2017
10. ↑ Marc-Uwe Kling: "QualityLand" is to become an HBO series . In: Spiegel Online . March 12, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 12, 2019]).
11. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: Short review: Much beautiful . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
12. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Borcholte, Lenne Kaffka, Ariana Gegra: Romance for the cool hangover morning . Der Spiegel, January 29, 2019
13. ↑ Current events | wleC. In: wlec.ag. voland-quist.wlec.ag, accessed February 10, 2016 . 
14. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony Germany: Kling, Krebs and Fischer in the Capitol - Death Metal on the nose flute. In: haz.de. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, accessed on February 10, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Jürgen Wittner: Marc-Uwe Kling: “ Knows the Devil!” In: Kulturselektor - umagazine.de. February 1, 2011, accessed March 18, 2020 . 
16. ^ Winner: The German Audio Book Prize. (No longer available online.) In: deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de. www.deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de, archived from the original on January 22, 2016 ; accessed on February 10, 2016 . 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.  
17. ^ Federal Association of the Music Industry: Gold / Platinum database. In: musikindustrie.de. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .