Max Annas
Max Annas (* 1963 in Cologne ) is a German writer.
life and work
Annas has been a journalist and editor for a long time, including at StadtRevue in Cologne, has published books on politics and culture and organized film festivals and series as an author. Annas currently (2016) lives in Berlin, after having spent a long time researching South African jazz at the University of Fort Hare in East London in the Eastern Cape Province.
His debut novel Die Farm reached third place at the German Crime Prize 2015 in the choice of the best German-language crime novel. His second novel The Wall was published in May 2016. For several months it was voted number 1 on the KrimiZEIT best list and was awarded the German Crime Prize 2017 (first place national). Together with a third as yet unpublished novel called Die Stadt , they form a trilogy of chaos about social conditions in South Africa. The novels of the trilogy are not connected by characters, but by the unity of time and space and each take place on a day or night. They revolve around the three motifs of possession ( the farm ), race ( the wall ) and sexual violence ( the city ).
His third novel Illegal deals with the reality of life for those illegally living in Berlin without residence papers. The main character is the Ghanaian Kodjo, who happened to witness the murder of a prostitute and who is soon wanted by both the police and the perpetrator. Deutschlandfunk Kultur produced the radio play of the same name in spring 2018, which was first broadcast on May 7, 2018.
Works
Novels
- The farm , Roman. Diaphanes 2014, ISBN 978-3-03734-701-0 .
- The wall , thriller. Rowohlt 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-27163-2
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Illegal , novel. Rowohlt 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-00101-8
- Radio play Illegal , adaptation and direction: Uwe Schareck, composition: James Reynolds , length: 56'30, production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2018.
- Finsterwalde , novel. Rowohlt 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-07401-2
- Murder Investigation Commission , Roman. Rowohlt 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-00103-2
- Murder Investigation Commission: The Melchior Nikoleit Case. , Novel. Rowohlt, Hamburg, 2020, 978-3-498-00133-9
Non-fiction books (selection)
- with Annett Busch, Henriette Gunkel (Eds.): Frieda Grafe 30 Films I. Brinkmann and Bose, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940048-16-5
- with Annett Busch (Ed.): Ousmane Sembène : interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008.
- with Erwin Wagenhofer: We Feed the world : What food really costs us. orange-press , Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 3-936086-26-5 . (see: Polar review )
- with Marie-Hélène Gutberlet: absolute_ Claude Levi-Strauss. Orange-press, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 978-3-936086-17-1
- with Elmar Wigand (Ed.): The billy goats. Glory and misery of 1. FC Cologne . Papyrossa, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89438-158-2 .
- with Ralph Christoph (Ed.): New soundtracks for the Volksempfänger. Edition ID archive, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89408-028-0 .
Publications (selection)
- To France or Wherever - The Blue Notes and Their Exile in Europe. In: Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, Cara Snyman: Shoe Shop . Jacana Media, 2012, pp. 147-153.
Movies
- with Dorothee Plass: Passe Bure! The filmmaker Fanta Regina Nacro. 1996
Awards
- 2015: German Crime Prize , third place for Die Farm
- 2017: German Crime Prize, first place for The Wall
- 2019: German Crime Prize, third place for Finsterwalde
Web links
- Max Annas at Perlentaucher
- Max Annas at Diaphanes Verlag
- Literature by and about Max Anna in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ KrimiZeit best list August 2016 , boersenblatt.net, August 4, 2016, accessed on August 4, 2016
- ↑ Max Annas in first place on the KrimiZeit best list in August , buchmarkt.de, August 4, 2016, accessed on August 4, 2016
- ↑ 33rd German Crime Prize 2017 , accessed on March 23, 2017
- ↑ Tobias Gohlis : "Killing is everyday life" . In: Die Zeit from November 17, 2016.
- ↑ Max Annas in conversation with Frank Meyer about Illegal , DLF Kultur from March 29, 2017, accessed May 7, 2018
- ↑ Detective radio play : Silent witness to a murder - Illegal , DLF Kultur from May 7, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018
- ↑ africultures.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Annas, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music journalist and crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |