Matthias Keidtel

Matthias Keidtel

Matthias Keidtel (born September 7, 1967 in Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German writer .

Life

Matthias Keidtel was born in 1967 in Schleswig-Holstein and grew up in Japan and Iran , among others , where he had to flee to Israel in 1979 before the Islamic revolution , which has given him the fear of moving and traveling that has persisted to this day. In 1989 he returned to Germany. This was followed by civil service in Frankfurt am Main with the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund - disabled people in any form have been the preferred topic of his further work ever since. From 1991 to 1997 Keidtel studied history and German at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a Magister Artium. During a stay of several months in New York, he wrote his first novel Abgetaucht , which was published a little later by a small publisher. After various part-time jobs, such as an advertising copywriter for a Berlin tourism agency, as a cigar seller and assistant to the film management of Berlin and Leipzig Tatorte , he has been working full-time as a writer since 1998. Matthias Keidtel lives with his wife and two children in Berlin-Kreuzberg and is represented by the Petra Eggers agency.

Act

In his books, Matthias Keidtel prefers to deal with outsiders in society, people who stand apart and therefore have an even closer look at their surroundings. He was best known to a wider audience through his novel A Man Like Holm (the first part of the trilogy of the modern man ), which deals with the role of the modern man in a humorous and at the same time serious way. Critics praised the book's subtle comedy.

plant

• Frau Endlich geht , Roman, Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2015
• Karaoke for Herta , Roman, Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2014
• Go then! , Roman, hardcover, Manhattan, Munich 2010
• Life goes on , novel, hardcover, Manhattan, Munich 2009
• A man like Holm , Roman, paperback, Goldmann Manhattan, Munich 2008
• A man like Holm , Roman, Hardcover, Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2006
• False relatives , Roman, Reclam Leipzig 2003
• abbeucht , Roman, Rake Verlag, Rendsburg 1998

Short stories and essays

• What are men actually? , in: Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Burgtheater Wien, issue 148, 2006/2007 season
• Sehnsucht , short story, in: Raus aus der Stadt, Satyr Verlag, Berlin 2006
• Kleiner Grenzverkehr / Crossing Borders , short story (in English and German), in: One-time II. Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin 2003
• Snow , short story, in: Ice Age. 25 authors are shivering from the cold. Development of the Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2000
• The voice , short story, in: 2000. Send new world. Memories of the 21st Century. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1999
• The night of long beards , short story, in: The corpse hung on the fir tree. 24 crimes for the festival. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1999
• as well as articles in various journals and magazines.

CDs

• The short story Snow can also be found on the CD Unter Null. Snow stories, published by Hörverlag, Munich, 2003. Running time: 22 minutes, read by Michael Mendl.

Web links

• Website about Matthias Keidtel with interviews, reviews and dates
• Report about Matthias Keidtel in the culture journal on arte TV