Marc Kayser

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Marc-Uwe Kayser (born May 27, 1961 in Potsdam ) is a German journalist and writer .

Marc Kayser 2018

Life

Marc Kayser comes from a family of doctors. After finishing school he studied from 1977 to 1979 in Rostock the profession of sailors of the merchant navy . 1980 to 1981 he did his military service with the NVA in Schwerin. He then made up his secondary school diploma from 1981 to 1983. He worked as a packer at Hinstorff Verlag and wrote cultural reviews for the North German Latest News . Due to the family's closeness to critics of the GDR regime and the resulting negative experiences with the Ministry for State Security , Marc Kayser left the GDR in June 1989 after several unsuccessful attempts to leave the country .

He volunteered at the Süddeutsche Zeitung , studied at the Munich School of Politics , worked as editor-in-chief of Boulevard Bio and was head of the service at Sabine Christiansen . Before he became a book author, he wrote for Die Zeit , the Financial Times Deutschland , Die Weltwoche in Zurich and Elsevier in Amsterdam, among others .

Marc Kayser lives and works mainly in Berlin . Parallel to his work as a writer and interviewer, Kayser writes journalistic articles, works as a PR consultant and develops formats and film material for book publishers and film productions. He also holds lectures and gives courses and seminars for creative writing at institutes and universities.

In April 2013, Marc Kayser won the city clerk's literary prize endowed with 5000 euros. The scholarship holder is awarded by the Kurt-Tucholsky-Literaturmuseum der Stadt Rheinsberg (Mark). From October 2013 to March 2016 he worked as a freelance author and editorial consultant for Hubert Burda Media .

Marc Kayser has a son and lives on the Wannsee in Berlin .

Works

Marc Kayser works in the genres of political thriller and crime fiction as well as political reports and interviews. So far, two novels have been published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag . TRIAS in 2008 and HEXAGON in 2009. He is also co-author of the non-fiction book “Ich haben eine Traum”, which was published by Kiepenheuer and Witsch in 2002. In 2015, a book designed as a “road trip” was published: “Great Freedom East - On the B96 through a wild piece of Germany” by the publishing house Bild und Heimat. In February 2016, Kayser's third novel “Schwarzer Falter” was published by Hinstorff-Verlag, in 2017 the story “A weekend with Tucholsky” and the political non-fiction book “Understanding Russia”. The detective novels “Die Rache des Petermännchens” and “Der Schatten aus dem Ramper Moor” were subsequently published.

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Raw material wars, an almost impossible love and killer who want to wipe out life in whole stretches of land: in Marc Kayser's novels TRIAS and HEXAGON, everything begins with a secret treaty through which Germany, Russia and the USA secure control over the world's most important raw material supplies. The opponents of this overpowering triad - above all China, Venezuela and some Islamic states - are taking up the fight and want to manipulate politicians, water suppliers and financial markets with terrorist attacks. Opposed to them is Markus Croy, lover of a Berlin journalist and agent with GDR childhood in the special department T3 of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). According to the company, both thrillers are based on extensive research. Accordingly, Kayser has met with former secret service agents from the Stasi , CIA and KGB as well as with terror experts from the Bundestag and the BKA. Bavaria Film acquired the film rights for the novel "Trias" and commissioned Kayser with the script.

In his road book “Große Freiheit Ost”, Kayser encounters land and people on the south-north tangent B96, writes of adventures, joie de vivre and crazy individual fates.

According to Hinstorff-Verlag, the characters in his detective novels are "tortured ghosts who do not kill out of pleasure or calculation, but out of inner struggles and compulsions." In “Schwarzer Falter” a transsexual person becomes a murderer, in “The Revenge of the Petermännchens” a person who was tortured by former classmates has his tormentors in his sights.

In an interview with the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , Kayser said that as a Rheinsberg town clerk in 2013 he found the story of Kurt Tucholsky's Rheinsberg: A Picture Book for Lovers (published in 1912) fascinating and thought about relocating it to the present day. The story of Tucholsky's Claire and Wolfgang finds its counterpart in Kayser's Linn and Gilbert, who - unlike Tucholsky's - are in search of their lost love and will make a dramatic decision at the end of their weekend. The book premiere took place on March 30, 2017 in the Tucholsky Literature Museum Rheinsberg.

With the former longtime ambassador of the USSR in East Berlin, the Gorbachev -Vertrauten Igor Maximychev , Marc Kayser wrote in 2017 Moscow and Berlin "- really how Moscow on Germany thinks and can where new confidence come Russia grasp" the book.

Novels

  • Triad . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-453-43294-9
  • Hexagon . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-453-43303-8
  • Black moth . Crime scene: West beach, Baltic crime thriller. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2016 ISBN 978-3356020120
  • A weekend with Tucholsky - declaration of love to Rheinsberg . A story. Verlag Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3959580779
  • The Weever's Revenge - A Schwerin crime thriller. Verlag Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3959580878
  • The shadow from the Ramper Moor - A Schwerin crime thriller . Verlag Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3959582018
  • The Phantom of the Pfaffenteich - A Schwerin thriller . Verlag Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3959582452

Non-fiction

  • I have a dream . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2002 ISBN 978-3-462-03144-7
  • Große Freiheit Ost: On the B96 through a wild piece of Germany , Bild und Heimat Verlag, Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3959580007
  • Understanding Russia - How Moscow really thinks about Germany and where new trust can come from , edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 3958410863

Awards

  • Italian environmental journalist award 2002 for his report “Fascinated by fire”, published in Die Zeit
  • Lead award for Qvest magazine "Best magazine of 2003"
  • Literature Prize of a Town Clerk, Kurt Tucholsky Museum, Rheinsberg 2013

Columns

Quotes

“If Marc Kayser writes something, then it's also true.” Karl Lagerfeld on the ARD program “Beckmann”

"Marc Kayser is one of the most sought-after interviewers in Germany." Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf

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personal data
SURNAME Kayser, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kayser, Marc Uwe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam