Siegfried Langer (writer)

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Siegfried Langer (born November 24, 1966 in Memmingen ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Memmingen in 1983, Siegfried Langer completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk , spent two years with the German Armed Forces in Penzing , completed his A-levels at the vocational college and completed further training as a banker. From 1996 he lived in Berlin and returned to his hometown Memmingen in 2014.

In addition to appearances in improvisational theater and as a performer in children's musicals, Langer also had supporting roles in television ( Good Times, Bad Times ) and in 1999 the title role in Hamlet - a sex comedy by Rosa von Praunheim . But his focus shifted more and more to writing.

His first novel Everything stays different is an alternative world novel about a world in which the Third Reich won the Second World War. He was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize and the German Fantastic Prize. His other novels are in the thriller genre.

In 2010 he took part in the literary experiment Hinterland published by Karla Schmidt , an anthology published by Wurdack , for which 20 authors wrote science fiction stories based on music by David Bowie .

Novels

Radio plays

  • 1998: Call me , Komödie, Hessischer Rundfunk
  • 1999: Invasion , Science Fiction, Hessischer Rundfunk

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