Oliver Uschmann

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Oliver Uschmann at Bochum Total 2016

Oliver Uschmann (born May 30, 1977 in Wesel ) is a German writer and journalist .

life and work

Oliver Uschmann did his community service in the urology department of a hospital. He later worked as a beverage supplier , packer at UPS and copywriter . Uschmann wrote his master's thesis in German studies on Franz Kafka . Since then he has worked as a freelance lecturer , ghostwriter , translator , tutor and writing teacher for aspiring authors and journalists.

2005 Uschmanns first novel Hartmut and I published by S. Fischer , the 2006 employs full. A Hartmut and I novel and 2007 Wandelgermanen. Hartmut and I are standing in the forest followed. Fully employed is also available as an audio book , which was created in 2006 with the participation of Bela B. , Trini Trimpop and Uschmann himself. In 2008 Murp! Hartmut and I get bogged down. 2010 enemy territory. Hartmut and I in Berlin , in which Uschmann criticized, among other things, the voluntary self-disclosure in social networks. Uschmann also writes for the music magazine Visions and the interview magazine Galore . In 2016 he was editor-in-chief of Galore.

Uschmann commercially offers his knowledge of literary and journalistic writing, the cultural sector, advertising copy, ghostwriting, editing, research for university and school as well as translations (English-German / German-English) both for individual jobs and in the form of seminars and lectures.

Uschmann has been married since 2009. Since 2005 he has lived with his wife Sylvia Witt in Ascheberg ( Coesfeld district ) in the Münsterland , where he was in charge of his wife's “House of Arts” internet gallery as “theory administrator”.

Works (selection)

Oliver Uschmann and Sylvia Witt

As a commissioned writer (together with Sylvia Witt)

  • Jan Brechmann A tiler grooms his way through: A craftsman's docu-soap. 2014, ISBN 978-3-8135-0597-9 .
  • Andreas Schorsch What are you actually sitting here for ?: Stories from the DB Service Point. 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-15845-4 .

Audio books

  • Hartmut and I: A male flat share audio book. with a foreword by Oliver Uschmann, read by Ingo Naujoks . Patmos audio, 2009, ISBN 978-3-491-91303-5 .
  • Wandelgermanen - Hartmut and I are in the forest. with a foreword by Oliver Uschmann, read by Ingo Naujoks. Patmos audio, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-491-91276-2 .
  • MURP! - Hartmut and I get bogged down. with a foreword by Oliver Uschmann, read by Ingo Naujoks, with guest appearances by Fräulein Schneider, Axel Prahl, K. Dieter Klebsch, Simon Jäger and Oliver Uschmann and the theme song by Axel Bosse and Oliver Uschmann. Patmos audio, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-491-91291-5 .
  • Survival at festivals: expeditions into the rock kingdom. read by Simon Gosejohann . Random House Audio, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8371-1319-8 .

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Oliver Uschmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Pipi in the jack - video interview with Oliver Uschman. ( Memento of October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at: getaddicted.org
  2. Stylespion: 15 + 1 questions to Oliver Uschmann, Sylvia Witt and the cats ( Memento from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. How Oliver Uschmann campaigns for reading . Rheinische Post, March 26, 2016
  4. wortguru.de , accessed on March 1, 2018
  5. Interview at leser-welt.de on work as a writer and word guru, 2009, accessed March 1, 2018
  6. ^ Religion & Society, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, July - November 2009, p. 14 ( Memento from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Sylvia Witt's Internet gallery