Misha Verollet

Misha Verollet at the Immergut Festival 2013

Misha Verollet (* 1981 in Gibraltar as Mishael-Sarim Vérollet, also known as Miles matrix and Misha Anouk ) is a British-German Synthwave - musicians , writers and advertisers with roots in Poetry Slam .

Life

Misha Verollet was born in Gibraltar in 1981 . When he was three years old, his family moved to Bielefeld , where he grew up and lived until mid-2010. In October 2004 he won a poetry slam for the first time. He was one of the best-known slam poets in Germany and, along with his fellow authors on his reading stage LMBN ( Sulaiman Masomi , Andy Strauss and Sebastian 23 ), belonged to the newer generation of storytellers. His first book, the short story collection Phantomherz , was published in 2005. In 2009, Carlsen Verlag published his short story volume Das Leben ist nicht Waldorfschule . In 2010 the novella All the King's Horses appeared , which was filmed as a thesis by college students. In 2011 he traveled through Zimbabwe and South Africa on behalf of the Goethe Institute and performed at a literature festival in Cape Town . In the spring of 2013 Carlsen published his short story volume "Irgendwas mit Menschen". Until 2016 he blogged regularly on his website indub.io about " mind control , conspiracy theories, political and social developments, social media phenomena and media criticism". In the fall of 2014 appeared in the Rowohlt publishing his narrative nonfiction Goodbye, Lord! How I left the world's most famous sect under the name Misha Anouk . In 2018, Jehovah's Witnesses sued the book. In 2018 his book Mann throws Dog on Bear was published .

Verollet has been producing synthwave music under the stage name Miles Matrix since 2019 . His first album Buena Vista was released in the same year and was discussed in the magazines Orkus and Rock Hard , where he is compared to musicians like Perturbator and Carpenter Brut .

Misha Verollet is a founding member of the monthly reading stage LMBN in Dortmund , which also includes Sebastian 23 , Andy Strauss and Sulaiman Masomi , as well as the Berlin reading stage Spree vom Weizen , which also includes Felix Lobrecht .

Private

Misha Verollet was born into a strictly religious family of Jehovah's Witnesses . As part of his book presentation on the NDR talk show, he reported that he managed to quit at the age of 20 and has been agnostic ever since . In his book Goodbye, Jehovah! he writes about this time. Although Misha Verollet grew up in Germany, he is exclusively a British citizen. His inner conflict with regard to his homeland is the subject of some of the texts in his books Life Is Not a Waldorf School and Why I'm Afraid of Women .

Misha Verollet has been a fan of Arminia Bielefeld since the days of Bielefeld . He is friends with the rapper Casper and accompanied him on tour during many festivals in 2011. In return, Casper made his song Alaska available for the trailer for the film adaptation of Misha Verollet's novella All the King's Horses .

Misha Verollet lives together with the writer Marlies Hübner in Vienna. Both have been diagnosed with autism in adulthood and are giving lectures on the subject, with a focus on criticism of applied behavior analysis .

Misha Verollet works full-time in an advertising agency in Vienna.

criticism

Life is not a Waldorf school

While Lydia Herms (MDR Sputnik), for example, judges that the book is “absolutely recommendable! (…) Mischa-Sarim Vérollet is a master, yes, a master of an unsuspected, thoroughly funny writing style. ”, Jugendbuchtipps.de awards 4.5 out of 5 stars, criticizes Münchner Merkur:“ Verollet's book shows how the texts without purring its performance together into unimportant little swings. ”and Literaturkritik.tv complained:“ The book, although laid out differently, splashes. (…) Poetry slammers who publish what they have read in printed form always take a certain risk. Not every text spoken in front of you dissolves just as nicely when read softly. "

Why I am afraid of women

The follow-up novel to the short story volume Life is not a Waldorf School was consistently welcomed by the critics. The Tagesspiegel, for example, found that it was difficult not to find the novel pretty great: "Most of the time it's funny, sometimes it's incredibly funny." DASDING said: “Seemingly banal things like an unwanted erection in math class bring Mischa to the disaster level of a reactor accident. (...) A great book. ". And the Gießener Anzeiger also praised the "crystal-clear word images, peppered with black humor, with which the author and poetry slammer aims directly at the laughing muscles."

Goodbye, Jehovah! How I left the most famous sect in the world

The Hamburger Abendblatt called Misha Verollet's publication "a remarkable book". Nina Apin writes in the taz that the book's "dual track" of "over-the-top descriptions of everyday life" and "sober explanatory passages" works surprisingly well: "The deeper you immerse yourself in the everyday world of the increasingly doubtful Anouk, the further you penetrate into the network Jehovah's Witness." The Evangelical Church in the Rhineland recommends the book as "enormously helpful if you want to understand the behavior of individual witnesses or just want to get some basic information".

Awards

Prices

• Work sample grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia 2013/2014
• Most curious book title 2009 (for "Life is not a Waldorf School")
• Bielefelder Poetry Award 2006 and 2007
• Artist of the month of the Rockakademie OWL in June 2006

Poetry slam successes

• Team finalist National Slam 2011
• Semi-finalist National Slam 2007, 2008
• Vice-Champion NRW-Slam 2008
• Participants in the second and third WDR Poetry Slam season
• Bielefeld City Slam Champion 2008, 2009

Publications

Books

• Man throws dog on bear. Incredible but true stories . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63302-7 .
• Goodbye, Jehovah! How I left the most famous sect in the world . Non-fiction book, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-62891-7 .
• Something to do with people . Short stories, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-551684-85-1 .
• Westphalia. When Leo searched for Frida and found Pumpernickel - a home book . Regionalroman, 256 p., Conbook Verlag, Meerbusch 2011, ISBN 978-3-934918-93-1 .
• All the king's horses . Roman, 80 p., Lektora, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-938-47070-1 .
• Why I am afraid of women . Roman, 224 pp., Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3551682406 .
• Poetry Slam - the book. The 40 best stage texts . Anthology, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3551682376 .
• Life is not a Waldorf school. Short stories, Carlsen Verlag , Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-68214-7 .
• Let's be enemies. Roman, House of the Poets, Paderborn / Paris 2007, ISBN 3-936706-14-X .
• Phantom heart. Lektora , Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-938470-02-X .
• Text tourism. Anthology , u. a. with Selim Özdogan , Tom Liwa , Markus Kavka , Sibylle Berg . Books on Demand 2005, ISBN 3-833-44040-6 .

Web links

Commons : Mischa-Sarim Verollet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Current blog from Mischa-Sarim Verollet
• Miles Matrix website
• Literature by and about Misha Verollet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Misha Verollet at Literaturport
• Interview with Mischa-Sarim Verollet on www.die-blaue-seite.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MILES MATRIX:… grew up with a feeling of constant threat and fear of the end of the world. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Markus Freise: Trailer for All of the King's Horses - the film . In: Markus Freise - Blog . 7, 2011.
3. ↑ Mischa-Sarim Vérollet: I'm flying south. In: Mischa in Africa. September 16, 2011 ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Facebook page from indub.io. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ quick markers? Jehovah's Witnesses are suing a book that has been on the market for three years. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Man throws dog at bear. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
7. ^ Posting on the Facebook page of Misha Verollet. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ MILES MATRIX:… grew up with a feeling of constant threat and fear of the end of the world. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Posting on Twitter. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
10. ↑ MAY 2011 NEWS. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Best of Spree vom Weizen. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Dirk Schneider: The reader as a rock star In: Deutschlandradio . 5, 2009.
13. ↑ Mike Litt , 1 Live : 1LIVE - Klubbing: Life is not a Waldorf School by Mischa-Sarim Verollet (April 24 , 2009 ) ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Klubbing . In: EinsLive Klubbing . 4, 2009.
14. ^ Mischa-Sarim Vérollet: From Bielefeld to the skyline . In: Neue Westfälische Tageszeitung . 12, 2011.
15. ↑ Claudia Haessy: A couple of questions for Marlies Hübner Article from July 26, 2016 on Frau Haessy writes (author's website), accessed on January 9, 2017.
16. ↑ Marlies Hübner: Without ifs or buts. Controversial autism therapy. In Die Tageszeitung , December 2, 2016, accessed on January 9, 2017.
17. ↑ Zero Eight Fourteen - How Normal is Autism? ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Announcement of a lecture on free thinking ( memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Website of the Freethinkers Association of Switzerland), accessed on January 9, 2017.  
18. ↑ Misha Verollet is the new Head of Digital Strategy at Virtue. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
19. ^ Lydia Herms: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Lydia's reading material from March 10, 2009 . In: MDR Sputnik . 3, 2009.
20. ↑ Ulf Cronenberg: Book Review Life is not a Waldorf School . In: Jugendbuchtipps.de . 3, 2009.
21. ^ Marie Schmidt : Poetry as a sporting game . In: Münchner Merkur . 3, 2009.
22. ↑ Bettina Koller: Mischa-Sarim Verollet - Life is not a Waldorf School ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
23. ↑ Sebastian Leber: Wuschelrock from October 14, 2010 . In: Tagesspiegel . 10, 2010.
24. ↑ Kotaro Dürr: Book tip: Mischa-Sarim Vérollet from December 16, 2010 . In: DASDING . 12, 2010.
25. ↑ jx: From ZKs and ADHD-free childhood. In: Gießener Anzeiger. October 25, 2010 ( Memento from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
26. ↑ I was a Jehovah's Witness. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
27. ↑ Of parakeets and demons. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Recommended literature. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
29. ↑ nrw-kultur.de: Work samples 2013/14 ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
30. ↑ Most curious book title 2009 (for "Life is not a Waldorf School") ( Memento from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )