Thomas Lindemann (Author)

Thomas Lindemann (* 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German author , editor and musician. Together with his wife Julia Heilmann , he wrote the bestsellers Kinderkacke und Quengelzone .

Life

Thomas Lindemann successfully completed a psychology degree at the University of Hamburg . He then worked as a freelance journalist and wrote for various magazines and periodicals such as Jetzt , Stern and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . From 2006 to 2011 he was the features editor of the national daily newspaper Die Welt . In this role he was one of the first journalists to write about computer games in the classic feature section of a newspaper. 2010, co-written with Julia Heimann book appeared chickenshit which for months in the mirror - bestseller list stood. In this and the following books, the two authors describe their lives with children in a humorous way. In each case not without critical undertones that this not only offers beautiful things, the relationship is burdened by it and also that many of today's consumer offers specially geared to children are unnecessary at best. In 2016 he published a volume with reports about Berlin-Neukölln, in which he examines the image of this district as a “problem neighborhood” and accompanies various personalities, including social workers, artists, a karate trainer, but also a Salafist etc.

Lindemann lives with his wife and three children in Berlin-Neukölln . He plays keyboard in the Berlin band Leather Report .

Works

• Kinderkacke , Hoffmann and Campe, 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50150-6 .
• Babybeschiss , Hoffmann and Campe, 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50220-6 .

among other titles: Quengelzone , Goldmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-15734-1 .

• All Parents Can Learn To Sleep , Atlantik, 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-70001-5 .
• Don't worry, there are Germans here too . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8270-1312-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Lindemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heilmann and Lindemann website (accessed February 5, 2014)
• Presentation of the book Kinderkacke in the magazine Eltern (accessed on February 5, 2014)
• Excerpt from Quengelzone on www.randomhouse.de (accessed on February 5, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita on www.randomhouse.de
2. ↑ Interview with Thomas Lindemann at www.nextlevel-conference.org (accessed on February 5, 2014)
3. ↑ Interview on www.bild.de (accessed on February 5, 2014)
4. ↑ Vita on www.prenzlauerberg-nachrichten.de ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 5, 2014)