Simone Veenstra

Simone Veenstra, 2014

Simone Veenstra (born April 2, 1971 in Hanau ) is a German writer , journalist and publisher . She lives in Berlin .

Life

Simone Veenstra grew up in Forchheim in Upper Franconia and graduated from the Ehrenbürg -Gymnasium. She studied modern German literature , theater and film studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen and at the University of Groningen . She completed her studies at the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin as a Magistra Artium . She worked in the theater, as an online editor and comic book seller. In 2003 she started working as a freelance journalist and editor for the departments of culture, digital life and travel. At the same time she took up her writing activity. In addition to her work as a writer, she translates foreign works from Dutch. Together with the transmedia specialist Dorothea Martin, Simone Veenstra founded the independent publisher Das wilde Dutzend in Berlin in 2010 , which publishes lavishly illustrated works on the interface between fact and fiction as a dedicated concept. Every book published there is accompanied by transmedial events over several months .

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In 2003 her first short story The Bone Whisperer was published by Scherz Verlag as a contribution to the Agatha Christie detective award . In the same year, she began working with Ulrike Rogler on the 20-volume series of children's books to promote reading, reading fixed-rate crime thrillers . This was published by Gondrom- Verlag in the Gondolino series and was also translated into Turkish. She then worked as a screenwriter , in particular as a dialogue writer and storyliner for the early evening series Verliebt in Berlin , Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten and Rote Rosen .

During this time, she and Anja Schneider wrote the bilingual youth crime thriller Sabotage im Feriencamp (2006, Tosa-Verlag) and the diary blog novel Ferien, Flirt und Fliederküsse (2008, Baumhaus-Verlag), which was also aimed at young people . In 2012 the book was published in a new edition by Bastei Lübbe . In 2011–13, her comic book novel trilogy BANG was published under the pseudonym Ninuk Niduoh by Kosmos-Verlag . She has been a radio play author since 2012 and writes for the traditional radio play series Hui Buh . In October 2016, the label Europa released the first episodes of the spin-off Der kleine Hui Buh , developed together with Ulrike Rogler and Hilla Fitzen , which is aimed at children from 3 years of age.

In 2012, with the support of the Goethe-Institut , she toured Bulgaria with the interactive project she designed for the creative promotion of adolescents, Kreativ-Lab . The creative lab aims to encourage children and young people to develop their own stories. As far as possible, these are also implemented using multimedia . In 2013 she received funding from the Berlin Senate . As part of the first storytelling festival in Berlin, Wunderland , which she organized together with Dorothea Martin, stories from the creative lab were premiered as radio plays . In addition, the live radio play The 8th Dwarf and the short film In Search of the 8th Dwarf were conceived and premiered for the festival. At the end of 2013 Simone Veenstra started work on the screenplay for the movie Die Superdiebe .

In March 2015, Kosmos-Verlag published her youth thriller You don't die in my heart , which moves in locations in her Franconian homeland, as well as her short story To the Swans in the anthology Biergartenlandschaften , published in 2016 . Shortly before, in February 2015 which was Wimmelspiel or Hidden Object Game (HOG) Agent Alice published that Simone Veenstra as head writer, together with Philip Zimmermann for the Berlin games company Wooga content developed. In addition to Tania Witte , Zoë Beck , Rafael Horzon and Holger Schulze, she is one of the contributors to the e-book anthology Thousand Tode Writings by the Berlin independent publisher Christiane Frohmann . In 2016, Heyne Verlag signed her for the novel Sind dann mal , which was published in October 2017 and is aimed at an adult audience for the first time. In January 2019 another novel was published by Heyne, Auf nach Irgendwo! .

With behind walls. A youth in the GDR published their first graphic novel in June 2018 by Ch. Links Verlag , a cooperation with the illustrator Martha Friedrich, Hana Hlásková and Christine Schoenmakers under the group name “Die Zeitreisenden”. Veenstra was responsible for the group's dramaturgy and script. The graphic novel deals with the authentic fates of young people in the GDR. She received a grant from the federal foundation for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship .

Publishing work

So far, four books have been published by Das wilde Dutzend : 2010 The good, the bad and the dead , macabre poems by Johan von Riepenbreuch. The book was illustrated by the Hamburg illustrator Stefanie Klück under the pseudonym Ebeneeza K. In 2012, Wer kann für böse Träume - The secret Grimm Files , was published, a reinterpretation of Grimm's fairy tales by well-known contemporary German-speaking authors such as Tamara Bach , Ulrike Draesner , Rabea Edel , Finn-Ole Heinrich , Angelika Klüssendorf , Tobias O. Meißner , Christiane Neudecker , Veronika Peters , Anja Schneider, Michael Stavarič , etc. The anthology was lavishly illustrated by numerous illustrators, including Stefanie Klück, with whom the publisher already worked on Die Guten, Die Böse and Die Toten and by Jens Maria Weber, whose Codex Roboticus the publisher then published in 2014 subsequently released. As a mix of fictional documentation and graphic novel, the book avoids clear genre drawers.

In 2018 the publisher entered new territory in two ways with Atalante, the Meermgirl, swims around the world of Simone Veenstra and Ulrike Rogler: on the one hand with the publication of a children's book, on the other hand with the inclusion of a title from one of the two publishers in the program. This book was also lavishly illustrated by the Bosnian illustrator Nina Mašina, who Veenstra got to know as part of an invitation from the Goethe-Institut Zagreb at the Istrian Children's Book Fair in 2016.

Prizes and awards

• 2008–09: Working grant from the Academy for Children's Media for developing the script for the film Die Superdiebe
• 2010: Nomination for the European Journalism Award of the European Parliament
• 2012: Shortlist of the virus thrower prize for the shadow theater concept about the good, the bad and the dead
• 2012: Toad of the month October for Who Can For Bad Dreams , awarded by the Study and Advice Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature in cooperation with the Austrian Library
• 2013: Funding from the Berlin Senate for the Creative Lab , the Senate's Special Learning Prize for running the Creative Lab at the Sachsenwald School
• 2016: Author residence at the Literaturhaus Pazin in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Croatia

Juries and committees

• since 2014 part of the text jury of the Spacenet Awards

Books

• Little stories of the mermaid , together m. Ulrike Rogler, Bindlach (Gondrom-Verlag) August 2004, ISBN 978-3-811-22424-7 .
• Friendship stories , together with m. Ulrike Rogler, series: Learning to read with the reading bee , reading stage 4, Berlin (Ueberreuter) July 2006, ISBN 978-3-800-05274-5 .
• Holidays, flirting and lilac kisses , together with m. Anja Schneider, series: Chaos, Mails & first kisses , Frankfurt (Baumhaus-Verlag) 2008, ISBN 978-3-833-93775-0 ; New edition under the title Ferien, Flirts und Fliederküsse , Cologne (Bastei-Lübbe) 2012, ISBN 978-3-843-21009-6 .
• Sabotage in the holiday camp , series: Learn English in an exciting way , add. Anja Schneider, Vienna (Tosa Verlag) 2006, ISBN 978-3-850-03027-4 .
• You don't die in my heart , series: Herzblut , Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) 2015, ISBN 978-3-440-14480-0 .
• Are then gone , Munich (Heyne) 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-42150-9 .
• Atalante, the mermaid, swims around the world , together with m. Ulrike Rogler, revised new version of the Little Tales of the Mermaid , Berlin (Verlag Das Wilde Dutzend) 2018, ISBN 978-3-981-52522-9 .
• Behind walls. A youth in the GDR , with the group Die Zeitreisenden , Berlin (Ch. Links) 2018, ISBN 978-3-86153-999-5 .
• Off to somewhere! , Munich (Heyne) 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-42270-4 .
• Bluntly in the summer wind , Munich (Heyne) 2020, ISBN 978-3453423718 .

Lesefix guessing thriller

• Tatort Schule , Bindlach (Gondolino) July 2003. ISBN 978-3-811-22202-1
• Crime scene Ritterburg , Bindlach (Gondolino) July 2003. ISBN 978-3-811-22203-8
• Tatort Reiterhof , Bindlach (Gondolino) July 2003. ISBN 978-3-811-22204-5
• Crime scene midnight , Bindlach (Gondolino) August 2003. ISBN 978-3-811-22205-2
• Crime scene eerie villa , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2005. ISBN 978-3-811-22547-3
• Tatort Baumhaus , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2005. ISBN 978-3-811-22546-6
• Geisterinsel crime scene , Bindlach (Gondolino) June 2005. ISBN 978-3-811-22630-2
• Crime scene holiday camp , Bindlach (Gondolino) June 2005. ISBN 978-3-811-22631-9
• Tatort Spukschloss , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2006. ISBN 978-3-811-22710-1
• Tatort Pony Club , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2006. ISBN 978-3-811-22711-8
• Crime scene Burgruine , Bindlach (Gondolino) June 2006. ISBN 978-3-811-22814-6
• Crime scene lighthouse , Bindlach (Gondolino) June 2006. ISBN 978-3-811-22813-9
• Tatort Tierpark , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2007. ISBN 978-3-811-22894-8
• Tatort football club , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2007. ISBN 978-3-811-22893-1
• Crime scene attic , Bindlach (Gondolino) June 2007. ISBN 978-3-811-22998-3
• Tatort pirate ship , Bindlach (Gondolino) June 2007. ISBN 978-3-811-22999-0
• Tatort Schulhof , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2008. ISBN 978-3-811-23077-4
• Crime scene Geistermoor , Bindlach (Gondolino) January 2008. ISBN 978-3-811-23078-1
• Tatort Museum , Bindlach (Gondolino) May 2008. ISBN 978-3-811-23158-0
• Tatort Schlossinternat , Bindlach (Gondolino) May 2008. ISBN 978-3-811-23159-7

Bang! (Ninuk Niduoh)

• Leon and the magic chamber , Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) February 2012. ISBN 978-3-440-12678-3
• The gloomy secret , Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) August 2012. ISBN 978-3-440-12683-7
• Leon and the hot track , Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) March 2013. ISBN 978-3-440-12684-4

Hui Buh - The castle ghost

• The cursed secret passage , Vol. 1, Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) February 2010. ISBN 978-3-440-12116-0
• Entführung in die Geisterwelt , Vol. 2, Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) February 2010. ISBN 978-3-440-12117-7
• Das mysteriöse Geisterbuch , Vol. 3, Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) October 2010. ISBN 978-3-440-12118-4
• Der Schatten des Gespensterjäger , Vol. 4, Stuttgart (Franckh-Kosmos) October 2010. ISBN 978-3-440-12119-1

Kathe

together with the illustrator Màriam Ben-Arab

• Volume 1: The Gorilla Garden . Ravensburger Verlag, Ravensburg 2020, ISBN 978-3473361298 .

Contributions to anthologies

• The bone whisperer . In: Nadine Barth u. Stephanie Kriesel: Last words . Fischer Scherz, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-502-51957-7 .
• A death, possibly . In: Christiane Frohmann (Ed.): Writing a thousand deaths . Frohmann Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944195-55-1 .
• To the swans . In: Elmar Tannert (Ed.): Beer garden landscapes - In expectation of infinity . Ars Vivendi , Cadolzburg April 2016, ISBN 978-3-86913-625-7 .

Games

• The children's university , Heureka-Klett 2004
• Quatsch-Frosch , analog card game (4 versions), Mixtvision Verlag, Munich 2009
• Agent Alice , Wooga 2015

radio play

• Hui Buh , Europe , since 2012
• The 8th dwarf , live radio play for Wunderland , 2013
• Little Hui Buh , Europe , together with Ulrike Rogler, since 2016

Film / TV

• Series development for Nickelodeon, Studio Hamburg, Polyphon, Global Filmtime ( unwilling siblings , country air in cans , Woody ).
• Storylining for good times, bad times and red roses
• Dialogue books for In Love in Berlin , Good Times, Bad Times , Anna and Love , Rote Rosen
• Short film Simply speechless (D: Markus Dietrich; P: Gruppe Weimar, 2005)
• Dramaturgical advice e.g. Short film Paulina (B / R: Lynn Kossler, P: KHM, 2010)
• Book collaboration animation film Kino Fairycakes (Ulysses Films, 2012/13),
• Feature film Die Superdiebe (real film, Ulysses Films, 2013/14)

Web links

• Author's website
• Short biography and information on Simone Veenstra's work at Literaturport
• Literature by and about Simone Veenstra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author profile of Simone Veenstra on LovelyBooks
• Interview with Simone Veenstra for: Nadine's Bücherwelt - Everyones a book, June 24, 2015
• Video Simone Veenstra about her youth novel In: Frankenschau aktuell , Bayerischer Rundfunk, September 8, 2015
• Book tip: Simone Veenstra - You won't die in my heart , book review by Dirk Kruse for br.de , September 8, 2015
• Book tip: Simone Veenstra - are gone , book review by Dirk Kruse for br.de , January 17, 2018
• Educational guide and work materials for teaching about Behind Walls

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunda Bartels: Fairy tales to participate. In: tagesspiegel.de. July 6, 2012, accessed January 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Charlotte Haunhorst: The 140-character fairy tale hour . 16th September 2013.
3. ^ Marco Nennemann: Elmar Tannert: beer garden landscapes . July 22, 2016.
4. ↑ Announcement of the publishing group Random House about are gone . Query: August 16, 2018.
5. ^ Announcement of the publishing group Random House for Auf nach Irgendwo! . Query: August 16, 2018.
6. ↑ Andreas Macho: Fairy tale band: Rumpelstiltskin and his friends on Facebook . 2nd July 2012.
7. ↑ Katja Marczinske: Mysterious Bookup. Guest at Das Wilde Dozen . November 24, 2014.
8. ↑ Review of Atalante From the chalk cliffs around the world by Lene Mewes on wirsindinsel.de , June 26, 2018
9. ↑ On the genesis of Atalante : Dorothea Martin: Kinderlachen mit Atalante . October 7, 2018.