Tobi cat
Tobi Katzen , actually Tobias Rauh (born April 12, 1981 in Hamm ) is a German author and Slampoet .
Life
In 2007 he received the LesArt Prize for Young Literature in Dortmund for a short story about the residents of Dortmund's Südstadt. His first independent book publication after various publications in anthologies was in 2012 the collection " Rocknrollmitbuchstaben " (published by Blaulicht-Verlag), in which short stories and stage texts were combined. For the website of Stern magazine, he started early 2014 the online blog The opposite of sad , for two years he wrote there on the (working) life and dealing with the disease depression . As a result, the novel " Tomorrow is unfortunately still a day " was published by Rowohlt in 2015 : Here, Katzen again dealt with the subject of depression in a humorous way, but now in novel form. The book reached number 4 in the Spiegel bestseller list (category: paperback) and stayed in the list for a few weeks. With his novel, Katzen went on a Germany-wide reading tour, and it was also published as an audio book.
In addition to his own readings, Tobi Katzen is also a regular participant in poetry slams ; in 2013 he reached the final of the NRW slam in the Weststadthalle Essen. Together with the North Rhine-Westphalian national champion from 2014, Sandra Da Vina , he regularly presents the program " The Suffering of Young Words " in Bochum .
Awards
- 2007: LesArt Prize for Young Literature
- 2013: Finalist NRW Slam in Essen
- 2014: Bielefeld Cabaret Prize
Publications
- Tobi cat: rock and roll letters . Blaulicht-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941552-19-7 .
- Tobi Katzen: Tomorrow is unfortunately another day: somehow I expected more from my depression . Rowohlt, 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-62927-3 .
- Tobi Katzen: Tomorrow is unfortunately another day: somehow I expected more from my depression [audio book] . Audio Media, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95639-058-6 (3 CDs).
- Tobi Katzen: Always hold the balloons: Growing up is not our way otherwise . Rowohlt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-63289-1 .
Further texts appeared in (selection)
- Dominik Bartels, Pierre Jarawan (Ed.): Something is rotten in the state . Blaulicht-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941552-11-1 .
- Karsten Strack (Ed.): Writing instead of complaining: The ultimate lovesick anthology of the poetry slam . Lektora, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-95461-058-7 .
- The firecrackers never sound sweeter ...: Stories about the crazy contemplative time between Christmas and New Year's Eve . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-63233-4 .
Web links
- Homepage of Tobi Cat
- Literature by and about Tobi Katzen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Blog "The opposite of sad" on stern.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ LesArt.Festival Dortmund • Literature | Art | Music. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Mr.Kat, how do you live with depression? In: stern.de . October 9, 2015 ( stern.de [accessed March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Tobi Katz writes bestseller: Guest performance in "Kubus" on November 14th . In: https://www.wa.de . November 7, 2015 ( wa.de [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ The Sorrows of Young Words :: Bochum :: Thursday, November 17th :: coolibri. Retrieved on March 22, 2017 (German).
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SURNAME | Cat, Tobi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rauh, Tobias (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and slampoet |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1981 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamm |