Sven Amtsberg
Sven Amtsberg (* 1972 in Hanover ) is a German writer and publisher .
Life
Sven Amtsberg has lived in Hamburg since 1996 . He works as a writer and organizer of readings ; He was also a founding member of the Hamburg literary club Die Macht e. V. At times he ran the Schwamm-Verlag, which he founded in 1995. Amtsberg writes short stories and novels. In 2001 and 2008 he received the Hamburg Prize for Literature . He also organizes city tours with invented information. In order to support aspiring writers on their difficult path to success, he founded the authoring school Autorendock in 2009 ; seminars for aspiring writers are offered there. From December 2010 to May 2012, his column Amtsbergsviews appeared in the Hamburger Abendblatt on Thursdays .
In 2020, he was awarded a Robert Gernhardt Prize for his novel project Rakete Schmidt .
Works
- Records of burlesque frescos , Hamburg 1996
- 103 , Hamburg 2000 (together with Thomas Tannenberg)
- The girl's book , Reinbek near Hamburg, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verl. , 2003
- Collaboration with thought games , Butjadingen: Achilla-Presse, 2008
- My days as a writer: a story , Hamburg: literary quickie, Probsthayn & Gerlach 2010
- The truth about Germany: city tours for know-it-alls , Reinbek near Hamburg, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2011
- 111 reasons to love FC St. Pauli: A declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag , 2013
- Paranormal Phenomena: Almost True Stories. METROLIT, Berlin 2014
- Superbuhei , Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt , 2017
Editing
- Belangen, -hagen , Langenhagen 1995
- Uncle Schwamm's book lesson , Hamburg
Web links
- Sven Amtsberg homepage
- Films with Sven Amtsberg
- http://www.literaturveranstaltungen.com/Literaturveranstaltungen_in_Hamburg.html
- Author's page at Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
- Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt
- Author's School Author's Dock
- Interview with Sven Amtsberg
- Report on a city tour by Sven Amtsberg in the Hamburger Abendblatt
- Report on a reading
- Kai U. Jürgens : Fake meat and bleeding sockets. Sven Amtsberg and his weird short stories »Paranormal Phenomena« , review on diezukunft.de , September 4, 2014
- Literature by and about Sven Amtsberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of the author at Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag . Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ↑ AUTORENDECK website . Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ↑ Column on online reading . Retrieved May 28, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amtsberg, Sven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |