Markus Berges

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Markus Berges (* 1966 in Telgte ) is a German singer , songwriter and writer . He lives in Cologne .

With the band Erdmöbel , whose singer, lyricist and songwriter he is, Markus Berges has released twelve albums so far, most recently Notes on Use (2018).

In 2009 Rowohlt Berlin published his debut novel A long letter to September Nowak. Selected lyrics were published in 2014 under the title Liebeslieder . In 2016, Berges published his second novel The Cook by Bob Dylan .

Novels

A long letter to September Nowak is about 19-year-old Betti Lauban who, after graduating from high school, goes to the south of France to visit her pen pal September Nowak. On the spot, Betti learns that this pen pal - contrary to what was described in September's letters - by no means leads a glamorous life in Monaco , but is the obese daughter of a cleaning lady and lives in a suburb of Nice . The disappointed Betti sets off on a journey along the French Mediterranean coast and in turn adopts the pseudonym September Nowak.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung called the novel "a great book", Spiegel Online judged: "A book that scratches the surface until real life becomes visible". In the Berliner Zeitung it was said that September Nowak was "an unsentimental, funny story that smells of hormones".

The cook of Bob Dylan , Berges' second novel, tells of Jasmin Nickenig's first days as a tour cook at Bob Dylan. This contrasts with the story of Florentinius Malsam, a Black Sea German between Hitler and Stalin, who disappeared in 1944. When Jasmin learns that a man named Vova could be her missing grandfather near Odessa, she is with Dylan and his band in the (still Ukrainian) Crimea. She hesitates, but her employer encourages her to get to the bottom of the matter.

For the Berliner Morgenpost , The Cook by Bob Dylan is “an excellent novel that fuses pop culture and German history”. In Rolling Stone , the book was compared to Ralf Rothmann's Im Frühling (Die Frühling) in terms of the sober style of speech, the wistful tone and the poetic power . Bob Dylan's cook is "an original, haunting, moving, touching and charming novel."

Awards

  • 2012: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2013: Scholarship from the SK Culture Foundation
  • 2019/20: Spreewald Literature Scholarship
  • 2020/21 German Academy Rome - Casa Baldi

Discography ( earth furniture )

  • 1996: The End of the Diet (NRW Records)
  • 2000: First words after bathing with dolphins (NRW Records)
  • 2000: Erdmöbel versus Ekimas (NRW Records)
  • 2003: Altes Gasthaus Love (Wallpaper Records)
  • 2004: Photo album (Wallpaper Records)
  • 2005: For those who don't know how (Wallpaper Records)
  • 2007: No.1 hits (Columbia)
  • 2010: crocus (noble)
  • 2011: Retrospective (Edel)
  • 2013: Kung Fu Fighting (Jippie)
  • 2014: Present (Jippie) / 2015: Present + 3 (Jippie)
  • 2018: Instructions for use (Jippie)

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Rühle: Everything glitters . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Maren Keller: Musician novel: The beautiful shabbiness of the world . In: Spiegel Online . September 27, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 24, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Benjamin Renger: Erdmöbel singer Markus Berges presents his debut novel with "A Long Letter to September Nowak": the enchanting story of a girl from the Westphalian province: The world rocks under its history . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Thomas Andre: Uninhibitedly sentimental: Bob Dylan turns 75 . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Review: Markus Berges - Bob Dylan's cook . In: Rolling Stone . ( rollingstone.de [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Berges, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, songwriter and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Telgte