Markus Seidel

Markus Seidel (born January 4, 1969 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German writer and founder of various text agencies.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Hanover (1990–1992), he studied German and philosophy in Hanover (among others with Chris Bezzel, the “discoverer” Peter Handkes), Vienna and Berlin. During his training as a bookseller and his studies, he regularly wrote literary reviews for various newspapers (including the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , from 1995 for the Berliner Zeitung ).

In the last semester of his studies in Berlin, he wrote his first novel, Detours, Increase Local Knowledge , which made him known to a wider audience in 1998 and received great critical acclaim. After that he devoted himself exclusively to writing. Freischwimmer followed two years later , then Vom Stand der Dinge , into which Seidel incorporated his experience as a competitive swimmer (in the 80s he was the German record holder in marathon swimming, he swam 42 kilometers in 1985 and 43 kilometers a year later) and for which he did the Alfred Döblin - Scholarship received; followed by And all the time in the world . After completing his fifth book Satt (2003), Seidel withdrew from the literary business for the time being. He then occasionally wrote articles for various newspapers (such as in 2004 about a trip to Canada in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and in 2006 about a writing seminar for Die Zeit ) and in 2008 wrote the book for a movie under a pseudonym ( Die Briefe der Josefine Eylandt ).

Seidel has been running an agency for ghostwriting and proofreading in Hamburg since 2005 . In 2011 he founded the text agency “plagiarism cleanup”, which the media (e.g. Tagesthemen and NDR Aktuell ) reported on - sometimes critically. Since the end of 2015 he has been producing audio books for private customers in his agency “Meine-beste-geschichte.de”. In 2016 he also founded mein-comic.com, an agency that produces individual comics for private customers and companies. In February 2016, “From people who lose their glasses and buy a Porsche” (novel) was published as an ebook.

In 2018 his short story book "Hasen, die Haken" was published by the publishing house "Literatur-Quickie" (Hamburg).

Works

• Detours increase local knowledge. Novel. 1998, ISBN 3-426-61520-7 .
• Free swimmers. Novel. 2000, ISBN 3-426-61540-1 .
• From the state of affairs. Novel. 2001, ISBN 3-7951-1765-8 .
• And all the time in the world. Novel. 2002, ISBN 3-7951-1771-2 .
• Fed up. Novel. 2003, ISBN 3-426-62606-3 .
• Write creatively. Counselor. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8476-3412-6 .
• More success with your e-book. Counselor. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8476-3474-4 .
• Müllersches Volksbad. Novel. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8476-3267-2 .
• Hares that hit the hook. Stories. 2018, ISBN 978-3-945453-51-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Seidel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of his agency
• Florian Felix Weyh's review of "Freischwimmer" in the DLF, August 17, 2000
• Ghostwriter: author without a name. Professional profile: Markus Seidel is a ghostwriter. He writes biographies and novels on behalf of his clients. Empathy is important to him . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 1, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2013.