Thomas Gsella

Thomas Gsella (2009)

Thomas Gsella (born January 19, 1958 in Essen ) is a German satirist and writer .

Life

Thomas Gsella was editor from 1992 and from October 2005 to 2008 editor-in-chief of the Frankfurt satirical magazine Titanic . He writes for various magazines, newspapers and radio stations. Gsella has emerged primarily as a writer of comic poetry . He is known for humiliating poems about German cities. He is a member of the Titanic Boy Group (together with Oliver Maria Schmitt and Martin Sonneborn ), with whom he goes on a reading tour in addition to his diverse solo programs.

Above all, he published poetry in the "Kritische Tagebuch" of the WDR , in the SWR Südwestradio , in the taz , the Junge Welt , the FAZ , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Thomas Gsella lives in Aschaffenburg with his wife and two children .

Books

Materials for the criticism of Leonardo Di Caprio and other poems , Eichborn , Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-3525-7
Kille cuckoo dideldei. Poems with an infant , Verlag Antje Kunstmann , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-86507-3
Generation rhyme. Poems and Moritat , Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins , Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-86150-521-5
So I become Heribert Faßbender . Basic and advanced vocabulary football report (with Heribert Lenz and Jürgen Roth ), Klartext Verlag , Essen 1995, 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 3-89861-100-0
Coughed into the alphorn. Poems about peoples and a. , Reclam , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-00849-4
Children, you don't do that. A pitch-black breviary for the family , Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag , Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-24510-7
Der kleine Berufsberater , Eichborn, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-6017-6
Papa-a? Yes my child The last questions of humanity , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag , Frankfurt 2008. ISBN 978-3-596-17894-0
Call me God , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2008. ISBN 978-3-596-17915-2
The sufferings of the young Schiller . With drawings by Rudi Hurzlmeier , Sanssouci Verlag , Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-8363-0170-1
Just wait, you will write soon too !: The Offenbacher Anthologie , Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag , Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-548-37305-8
Blue among blacks. Gsellammelte Prose I: Selected Humoresken , DuMont , Cologne 2010. ISBN 978-3-8321-9543-4
Pure beauty, shine and light - your city! im Schmähgedicht , Eichborn, Frankfurt 2011. ISBN 978-3-8218-6087-9
BestGsella - live reading . Audiobook, Eichborn and Spiegel Online . ISBN 978-3-8218-6341-2 .
Komische Deutsche , Carl's books , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-58506-1 .
Critters in verse , poems on animal drawings by Greser & Lenz . C. Bertelsmann , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-10140-7 .
Attention, attention, this is Santa Claus speaking! , carl's books, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-58534-4
Martin Sonneborn, Thomas Gsella, Oliver Maria Schmitt: Titanic Boygroup Greatest Hits , Rowohlt Verlag Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-87134-818-1
From Aachen to Zzwickau. Your city in the humiliating poem. JMB , Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-95945-500-8
Eva Häberle, Thomas Gsella: What is the leaf animal doing here , Knesebeck 2016, ISBN 978-3-86873-883-4
Saukopf nature. Poems (with Rudi Hurzlmeier), Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95614-125-6
Pleasure poems. With pleasure drawings by Rudi Hurzlmeier , Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins 2018, ISBN 978-3-96318-009-5
Festival poems. With festive drawings by Rudi Hurzlmeier , Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins 2018, ISBN 978-3-96318-025-5
Personal control. People of today in light poems , Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95614-287-1
Drinking poems. With drinking drawings by Rudi Hurzlmeier , Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins 2019, ISBN 978-3-96318-058-3
Food poems. With feeding drawings by Rudi Hurzlmeier , Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins 2020 (announced for October 2020)

Radio plays

In the Hotel Harakiri - service continues: a suite from Baden . Authors: Smudo , Stefan Veith, Peter Fey, Sebastian Hülk , Thomas Gsella, Hans Zippert , Walter Baco , Mathias Zimmer, Ralf Summer, Mehmet Kucin, Brigitte Hallbauer, Thomas Hintner, Felix Schmid, CY Schmidt, Joe Wentrup, Alexandra Kayser, Franz Veith, Thomas Metzinger, Jad Fair and David Fair, Nova MD, Vachendorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-96111-343-9

Musicals

The creation of the world - a strange musical . Music: Stephan Kanyar, lyrics: Thomas Gsella, book: Maren Scheel. A commissioned work for the Schauspiel Essen , premiere in December 2012

Prizes and awards

2004 Cuxhaven Joachim Ringelnatz Prize (Young Talent Prize)
2011 Robert Gernhardt Prize
2014 scholarship from the German Literature Fund

literature

Poet, just wait : Review in Der Spiegel , 51/2009, page 134.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Gsella - Collection of Images

personal data
SURNAME	Gsella, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat