Norman Liebold

Norman Liebold at a performance (Leipzig, 2003)

Norman Liebold (born November 25, 1976 in Eilenburg ) is a German writer , artist and actor .

biography

After visiting the "Wilhelm Pieck" POS in Bad Düben in Saxony, Liebold moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1988. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the family followed to Siegburg in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he attended grammar school Alleestraße and graduated from high school there in 1997. During his school days he was already self-publishing smaller literary texts ( Narratiunculae Obscurae ), exhibiting photographic and graphic works and was given space for a first official reading of his own texts as part of the Siegburg Youth Culture Days . After completing his civil service, he enrolled at the University of Bonn in the subjects of Old and New German Studies and Philosophy and graduated in 2007 with the degree of Magister Artium .

Literary work

Liebold's literary work can be clearly assigned to phases. Between 1995 and 2003, fantastic stories, plays and novels were mainly published. The style was based on classical literature and allegorically dealt with psychological and interpersonal issues. With Eckstein , a socially critical novella that deals with the conditions in German old people's homes, the author turned primarily to realistic topics in 2003 and described the realities of life in a varied style and critical attitude. From 2005 onwards, Liebold made greater use of the crime genre, with an ironic break, in order to begin a series of crime novels in the Siebengebirge in 2008, which currently comprises three novels. At the end of 2008 Liebold brought out Navigator, a socially critical science fiction in the tradition of Orwell and Bradbury , which takes place in Cologne and deals with the consequences of globalization and digitization. Since 2011 he has been increasingly combining and counteracting style and genre boundaries.

Theater and publishing house

In 2000 he founded the Amator Veritas Ensemble together with Robert Christott and two years later his own small publishing house of the same name, where the first book with the title Märenborn was published a short time later . In 2004 he dissolved the ensemble and worked without a permanent ensemble, cooperating with various musicians, actors and visual artists.

Intentions

Norman Liebold is an author and artist who tries to keep all the strings of his work in his own hands. His texts are illustrated by himself or in close cooperation with the respective artists, and the staging on the stage is his sole responsibility. The Amator Veritas Verlag , founded by him and his long-time friend Jens Finkhäuser, has committed itself entirely to authenticity and closeness to the artist; here he publishes those books that are exclusively intended to correspond to his ideas. In addition, Amator Veritas serves as an artist agency for its activities as an actor, musician and speaker as well as the marketing of its artistic products such as graphics, paintings, art objects made of metal, wood and leather. The diverse fields of activity are closely related and are an expression of a central work concept that has been taking shape in words, images, performances and art for more than 20 years.

Works

• Märenborn , ISBN 3-937330-00-3 , fairy tale novel, 2002
• Vampyriad , ISBN 3-937330-02-X , horror novel, 1998
• The Minstrel Complex , ISBN 3-937330-04-6 , 1999-2002
• The Seven Cups , ISBN 3-937330-06-2 , fairy tale novel, 2001
• Crow and nightingale , ISBN 3-937330-08-9 , fairy tale novel, 1998–2003
• Dramas , ISBN 3-937330-10-0 , plays, 1997–2001
• Incubus , ISBN 3-937330-14-3 , criminalistic-fantastic novel, 2003
• Bardenträume , ISBN 3-937330-16-X , fairy tale novel, 1996-2004
• Eckstein , ISBN 3-937330-17-8 , novella, 2004
• Absurdistan , ISBN 3-937330-18-6 , plays, 2003–2004
• Retirement , ISBN 3-937330-19-4 , Kriminalnovelle, 2004
• Split tongues , ISBN 3-937330-24-0 , fairy tale novel, 2005
• Der Kulturgeist , ISBN 978-3-937330-26-6 , fantastic anthology, 2007
• Dichterbrand , ISBN 978-3-937330-25-9 , crime novel, 2008
• Glass coffin , ISBN 978-3-937330-27-3 , crime novel, 2008
• Krimifrass , ISBN 978-3-937330-28-0 , crime novel, 2008
• Navigator , ISBN 978-3-937330-29-7 , Science-Fiction, 2008
• Beorn , ISBN 978-3-937330-32-7 , artist novella , 2010
• Euthanatus , ISBN 978-3-937330-33-4 , Kriminalnovelle, 2010
• The Cave , ISBN 978-3-937330-35-8 , Horror, 2011
• Forstokratie , ISBN 978-3-937330-36-5 , audio book 2013
• Navigator . Stories. Ch. Schroer . Bergisch Gladbach. 2014. ISBN 978-3-95445-042-8
• Navigator . Audio book. Ch. Schroer . Bergisch Gladbach. 2014. ISBN 978-3-95445-057-2
• Views of a nude model . Novel. Hennef 2014. ISBN 978-3-937330-37-2
• Dialogue with an elm . Kunstmärchen, 2014. Published in: Wave Gotik Treffen 2014: Pfingstgeflüster , ed. v .: Marcus Rietzsch. ISBN 978-3-943412-67-3
• JUMPING IN . Novelle, 2015. Published in: Ein Dialog in Raum und Zeit , ed. v .: Christa Otte, Katharina Otte-Varolgil, Eva Maria Kagermann-Otte. ISBN 978-3-937330-76-1
• Wrens . Novel. Hennef 2015. ISBN 978-3-937330-74-7
• Navigator - the radio play . word staff. St. Augustin 2016. Radio play. ISBN 978-3-945273-00-5
• The miracle of St. Mauritius & its most brilliant performance, St. Augustin 2016. Audiobook. ISBN 978-3-945273-06-7
• Tree of Knowledge & Die Verrückte vom Auensee , St. Augustin 2016. Audio book. ISBN 978-3-945273-05-0
• MA & Gitta's Secret Garden , St. Augustin 2016. Audio book. ISBN 978-3-945273-04-3
• The Baptism , St. Augustin 2016. Audio book. ISBN 978-3-945273-03-6
• Paradoxon , Amator Veritas, Cologne 2016. Audio book. ISBN 978-3-937330-83-9 (print) and ISBN 978-3-937330-84-6 (download)
• Patent matter , Amator Veritas, Cologne 2017. Audio book. ISBN 978-3-937330-85-3
• Artist's Life , published in: Wave Gotik Treffen 2017: Pfingstgeflüster , ed. v .: Marcus Rietzsch, ISBN 978-3-943412-81-9
• Azurit , in: von Aster, Christian (Ed.): Boschs legacy. Stories from the Garden of Earthly Delights . Remda-Teichel 2018. Edition Roter Drache ISBN 978-3-946425-40-3
• Azurite. A Hunsrück fantasy about the Niederbrombacher church and Philippe Devaud , adventure 2018. Amator Veritas. ISBN 978-3-937330-86-0
• Parzival , In: Basement Tales Vol. 2: Sperrgebiet . Saarbrücken 2018. The Dandy is Dead. ISBN 978-3-947652-04-4
• Demon Wall , novel. Remda-Teichel 2019. Red Dragon Edition. ISBN 978-3-946425-67-0 .
• Dwarfs , novel. Remda-Teichel 2019. Red Dragon Edition. ISBN 978-3-946425-68-7 .

Web links

Commons : Norman Liebold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Norman Liebold in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.norman-liebold.com Official author website
• Norman Liebold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry in the literary port of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) and the Brandenburg Literature Office (BLB)