Michael Marrak

Michael Marrak (born November 5, 1965 in Weikersheim ) is a German graphic artist and author . His literary work spans a wide range of science fiction , horror , fantasy , grotesque , and fantastic literature . He has received several awards including the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize and the German Science Fiction Prize .

Life

Michael Marrak grew up in Weikersheim ( Tauberfranken ) until he was ten years old and spent his youth and early adulthood in the greater Stuttgart area . From 1983 to 1986 he completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale salesman , and from 1988 to 1991 a further apprenticeship as a graphic designer . From 1996 to 1997 he did advanced training in the field of desktop publishing / screen design , multimedia and animation . While he initially worked as an illustrator, writer of short stories and editor of magazines and anthologies, from 1995 he devoted himself increasingly to writing.

In 1980 he wrote his first story and started drawing around the same time. His first story ( The Eyes of Aasac ) appeared in a short story book in 1990. From 1993 to 1996 he brought out his own fanzine Zimmerit , in which he also published his own stories and graphics. He was also the editor of several issues of Andromeda magazine until 1997 . In 1997 monochrom published his first novel Die Stadt der Klage and shortly afterwards the surreal play Weg der Engel . Together with Malte S. Sembten , he was editor of the Maldoror series from 1998 to 1999 . In 2000 his novel Lord Gamma was published, as well as in 2002 the novel Imagon , based on his novella Der Eistempel . In 2005 Morphogenesis was published as an elaboration of The City of Lament . Since 2006 Marrak was involved in the creation of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Black Prophecy , the background story of which he wrote. In 2008, his youth novel Das Aion was published by Ravensburger .

He lists Iain Banks and Philip José Farmer as literary role models .

Michael Marrak lives in Schöningen am Elm.

Awards

In 1997 Marrak received the European Science Fiction Award in the “Best Artist” category. In 1999 he was awarded the German Science Fiction Prize for The Silence of the Sound as the best German science fiction story. In 2000 he received the German Science Fiction Prize and the German Fantastic Award in the category “best German story”, as well as the German Fantastic Award for Der Agnostische Saal 2 as the best original anthology for his short story Revenants . In 2001, his novel Lord Gamma was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize and the German Fantastic Prize . In 2003 he received the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for his novel Imagon , as well as the German Phantastik Award for Numinos as best short story. In 2005 his cover picture became Fantastic! # 15 was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in the category “Best Illustration” in the Science Fiction category. His story Coen Sloterdyke's diametrically levitating Chronoversum was selected as the best German-language SF story for the 2014 Kurd-Laßwitz Prize.

In 2018, Marrak's work The Canon of Mechanical Souls was awarded the Seraph Fantastic Literature Prize as “Best Book” and the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for the best novel. In 2019 he received the KLP again. This time as a graphic artist for The Journey to the Center of Time .

Works

Novels and plays

• The city of lament . edition mono / monochrom , Stockerau, Austria 1997, ISBN 3-9500731-0-8 .
• with Gerhard Junker: At the end of the bite time . A play for the fantastic stage. Zimmerit 9th Edition Zimmerit, 1997, ISSN  0946-5154 .
• with Agus Chuadar: The way of the angels . A play for the fantastic stage. tape 2 . edition mono / monochrom, Stockerau, Austria 1998, ISBN 3-9500731-1-6 .
• Lord Gamma . 1st edition. Shayol / Alien Contact , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-926126-07-8 . (Paperback edition from Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-404-24301-3 )
• Imagon . HP Lovecraft's Library of Secrets, Volume 10. 1st Edition. Festa , Almersbach 2002, ISBN 3-9500731-0-8 . (Paperback edition from Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 2004, ISBN 3-404-24325-0 )
• Morphogenesis . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-404-24339-0 . (Reprint of The City of Lamentation )
• The aion . Children of the sun. Ravensburger Buchverlag , Ravensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-473-35281-4 .
• Black Prophecy - Gambit . Panini Verlag , Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8332-2355-6 .
• Epitaph . Horror Factory Volume 13. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8387-4671-5 . ( E-book , audio book )
• Ammonite . Horror Factory Volume 16. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8387-4999-0 . ( E-book , audio book )
• The canon of mechanical souls . Amrûn Verlag , Traunstein 2018, ISBN 978-3-95869-257-2 .
• The journey to the center of time. Amrûn Verlag , Traunstein 2018, ISBN 978-3-95869-377-7 .
• The garden of the uroborus . Amrûn Verlag , Traunstein 2019, ISBN 978-3-95869-392-0 .

Collective works

• Michael Marrak (Ed.): Foetus Germany . Andromeda 132 / Zimmerit 1. Edition Zimmerit / Science Fiction Club Germany , 1994, ISSN  0934-330X .
• Michael Marrak (ed.): Monafyhr . Zimmerit 2nd edition Zimmerit, Gärtringen 1993.
• Michael Marrak (ed.): Colony stories . Zimmerit 3rd Edition Zimmerit, 1994, ISSN  0934-330X .
• Michael Marrak (ed.): The Judas cradle . Zimmerit 4th Edition Zimmerit, 1995, ISSN  0946-5154 .
• Michael Marrak, Peter Fleissner (Ed.): Bonsai 6 / Zimmerit 5 . Edition Zimmerit, 1995, ISSN  0946-5154 .
• Michael Marrak (ed.): Crypterion . Zimmerit 6th Edition Zimmerit, 1996, ISSN  0946-5154 .
• Michael Marrak (ed.): Grabwelt . Zimmerit 7th Edition Zimmerit, 1996, ISSN  0946-5154 .
• Michael Marrak (Ed.): Demon Time . Andromeda 139th Edition Zimmerit / Science Fiction Club Germany, 1997, ISSN  0934-330X .
• Michael Marrak (ed.): The silence after the tone . Alien Contact / Edition Avalon, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-926126-03-5 . (Cover picture by Zdzisław Beksiński )
• Malte S. Sembten , Michael Marrak (ed.): The agnostic hall 1 . Stories. Maldoror series of publications, 1998, ISBN 3-00-002477-8 .
• Michael Marrak, Malte S. Sembten (ed.): The agnostic hall 2 . Stories. Maldoror series of publications, 1999, ISBN 3-9806683-0-4 .
• Michael Marrak, Karsten Kruschel (ed.): Armageddon mon amour . Five visions of the end. Maldoror series of publications, Kalefeld 2012.

Short stories and short stories (selection)

• Michael Marrak: The eyes of Aasac . In: Armin Würfl (ed.): Stories of fantastic literature . VPN Magazin zur Phantastik 10. M & W Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-9802076-1-7 , ISSN  0935-6924 .
• Michael Marrak, Gerhard Junker: News from the maze . In: Jörg Martin Munsonius (Ed.): Paths into the fantastic . EDFC Fantasia, Passau 1996, ISBN 3-924443-83-1 .
• Michael Marrak: Quo vadis, Armageddon? ( Memento from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Franz Rottensteiner (Ed.): Expiry date December 31, 2000 - The Prophecy Trap . Aarachne Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85255-042-4 .
• Michael Marrak: Numinos . In: David Kenlock (ed.): Old gods don't die . Scary stories. Scherz Verlag , 2002, ISBN 3-502-51876-9 .
• Michael Marrak: Relicon . In: Helmuth W. Mommers (ed.): The breath of God . and other visions 2004. Shayol, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-926126-42-6 .
• Michael Marrak: The abandoned ( Memento from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Andreas Eschbach (Ed.): One trillion euros . Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2004, ISBN 3-404-24326-9 .
• Michael Marrak: Endemion . In: Patrick J. Grieser (Ed.): Arkham - A travel guide . Basilisk Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-935706-24-7 .
• Michael Marrak: The Kingdom of Tears . In: Uwe Post (Ed.): 2012 T minus zero . A collection of the end of the world. phantastic episodes VII. Begedia-Verlag, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012, ISBN 978-3-943795-17-2 .
• Michael Marrak: The canon of mechanical souls . In: Olaf G. Hilscher, Michael K. Iwoleit (eds.): Nova 20 . Nova Verlag, 2012, ISSN  1864-2829 .
• Michael Marrak: Coen Sloterdyke's diametrically levitating Chronoversum . In: Olaf G. Hilscher, Michael K. Iwoleit (eds.): Nova 21 . Nova Verlag, 2013, ISSN  1864-2829 .
• Michael Marrak: The mechanical dybbuk . In: Olaf G. Hilscher, Michael K. Iwoleit (Eds.): Nova 22 . Nova Verlag, 2013, ISSN  1864-2829 .
• The song of the wind augurs , in Nova 23 , edited by Olaf G. Hilscher and Michael K. Iwoleit , Nova Verlag, Bad Zwesten 2015. ISBN 978-3-95869-031-8

Other publications

• Visions of an inner world . An interview with HR Giger . Space (magazine), issue 3, 1989 ( online publication on May 20, 2014 at SF-Fan.de).
• Free jazzolation. A surreal conversation by Johannes Grenzfurthner , Agus Chuadar and Michael Marrak in monochrom # 8-10 , 1998 (page 162).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Marrak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Marrak in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Short biography and information on the work of Michael Marrak at Literaturport
• Works by and about Michael Marrak at Open Library
• Homepage of Michael Marrakech

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Marrak . Alien Contact . Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 23, 2014. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Interview with Michael Marrak . SF-Fan.de. May 25, 2000. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Private matters - prices . michaelmarrak.de. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with Michael Marrak . fantasyguide.de. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
5. ↑ Michael Marrak: The City of Lament . edition mono, Stockerau, Austria 1997, ISBN 3-9500731-0-8 , blurb .
6. ↑ Sunday chat with Michael Marrak . Alien Contact . November 21, 2004. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 23, 2014. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Books - Anthologies . michaelmarrak.de. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
8. ↑ Interview with Michael Marrak . phantastik-couch.de. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
9. ↑ Exclusive Black Prophecy Author Michael Marrak Interview ( English ) IGN Entertainment . August 9, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
10. ↑ Michael Marrak - Author Lexicon - Literaturport.de. Retrieved October 26, 2018 (German). 
11. ↑ Literature Prize Winner of the German Fantastic Prize
12. ↑ Kurd Laßwitz Prize 2014 . kurd-lasswitz-preis.de. Retrieved August 23, 2014.