Sven Lager

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Sven Lager (born March 25 or March 26, 1965 in Munich ; † April 19, 2021 ) was a German writer who is also included in pop literature .

Life

Sven Lager was the son of a Swedish art teacher and a German painter and grew up in Karlsruhe and near Freiburg. He spent a year as an au pair in Paris and studied German and history in Berlin. He began as a cinema and book critic for Radio 100 , the first free radio in Berlin, designed cultural and music programs, and dropped out after two years. He also worked as a demonstrator, welder and sculptor and met Elke Naters at his first and only exhibition in 1992know. Both started a family, began to write and in 1999 initiated the virtual salon ampool.de, in which artists and authors could publish unfiltered and uncensored and refer to each other when blogging was just beginning.

In 2000 his first novel Phosphor was published , which tells of the odyssey and love of a young man in Berlin. From 2000 to 2002, Lager lived with his wife in Bangkok . During this time Im Gras , who tells of the death of a beloved friend and leaves the narrator tied to the bed like Proust , the memory sharpened by fever. For two years the family returned to Berlin, where thirst, hunger, tired arose, which describes the wonderful madness with children.

In 2004 Sven Lager and his family moved to Hermanus in South Africa, where the children started school and the novel Mein Sommer als Wal ( Mein Sommer als Wal) was written, the unusual and almost impossible love story of a German volunteer and an Xhosa girl . In South Africa Sven Lager wrote with Elke Naters What we understand about love and the instructions for use for South Africa . Various radio features for WDR were also created here: No man's land is a satire on the emigration documentaries that could be seen everywhere on television, Black Humor introduces the new South Africa through its stand-up comedians. In Hermanus, Sven Lager and his wife also founded the Sharehaus.

From the beginning of 2014, Sven Lager lived with his family in Berlin again, continued to write books and for newspapers and magazines, worked on radio programs, managed the share house project and founded the crowdfunding publisher derVerlag.net with his wife .

He was the founder of the Sharehouse Refugio in Berlin and the developer of the idea of ​​the Sharehouse together with his wife Elke Naters.

Sven Lager died in April 2021 at the age of 56 from complications from cancer.

Works

  • The book. Leben am pool (as publisher, with Elke Naters). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-02993-2 .
  • Phosphorus. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-462-02906-1 .
  • In the grass. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03094-9 .
  • Thirst - hunger - tired. Situation report from the battle zone children's room . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004; dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-20949-6 .
  • My summer as a whale. A South African story . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03783-8 .
  • What we understand about love (with Elke Naters). btb, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-75212-6 .
  • Instructions for use for South Africa (with Elke Naters). Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-27580-4 .
  • There has to be more than everything in life! (with Elke Naters). Adeo, Aßlar 2013, ISBN 978-3-942208-02-4 .
  • Everyone wants to arrive. Experience reports and suggestions for working with refugees (with Gerold Vorländer). Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7655-2076-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Lager. In: brunnen-verlag.de. Retrieved April 21, 2021 . Sven Lager. In: buchmarkt.de. April 21, 2021, accessed April 21, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Sven Lager. In: A Human Atlas. October 7, 2020, accessed April 21, 2021 .
  3. ^ Andrian Kreye : On the death of Sven Lager: School of Love. In: sueddeutsche.de . April 20, 2021, accessed April 20, 2021 . Georg M. Oswald : On the death of Sven Lager: What he did was fine and well and anything but unimportant. In: Welt.de . April 20, 2021, accessed April 20, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Annette Mingels : The Miss Miracle is dead - long live the Miss Miracle . In: Ilse Nagelschmidt, Lea Müller-Dannhausen, Sandy Feldbacher (eds.): Between staging and message: on the literature of German-speaking women authors from the end of the 20th century. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86596-074-X , p. 37.
  5. ↑ Tanja Tricarico: Sharehaus Refugio in Neukölln: Living for one another. In: Tagesspiegel.de . September 28, 2015, accessed April 21, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Lager, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1965 or March 26, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2021