Tommy Jaud

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Tommy Jaud at the Leipzig Book Fair (2010)

Tommy Jaud (born July 16, 1970 in Schweinfurt ) is a German writer , screenwriter and author for various television productions.

Career

After graduating from high school, Tommy Jaud did community service in a kindergarten and then began studying German at the University of Bamberg . During his time as a student, Jaud hosted a radio show at Antenne Thüringen and wrote as a freelancer for the Harald Schmidt Show . After dropping out of his studies, he moved to Cologne . Here he worked for various television productions, such as Creative Producer for comedy series Ladykracher and Head Writer for the weekly show of Sat.1 . Jaud also wrote the scripts for the television series LiebesLeben . He also worked as a writer for the heute show . In total, over 4.3 million of his books had been sold by November 2012. Hummeldumm (2010) was the most successful German novel of 2010.

Novels and audio books

Simon Peters series

more books

Audio books

  • Jaud's novels Vollidiot , Resturlaub und Millionär were set to music as an audio book with the voice of Christoph Maria Herbst . The audio books for I have to give a shit and Hummeldumm spoke the author himself.

Movies

Idiot in 2006 with Oliver Pocher and Anke Engelke , directed by Tobi Baumann filmed ; It was released on April 12, 2007. Jaud wrote the script himself; he had already worked with Engelke and Baumann at Ladykracher . On December 18, 2008, Sat.1 showed the second work by the Jaud / Baumann team, Two Santa Clauses , with Christoph Maria Herbst and Bastian Pastewka , which was awarded the German Comedy Prize in 2009 in the “Best TV Comedy” category. Jaud also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his novel Resturlaub (director: Gregor Schnitzler ), which was released in August 2011.

criticism

In the parodistic volume of stories Die Elefanten-Epen (in the chapter "Tommy Jaud") the representation of homosexuals in Jaud's books is satirically questioned. Numerous passages from Jaud's books are quoted and a. the frequent use of the terms "(ballet) fagot ", " breech loader ", "horny gay guy" and the like criticized.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bestseller from Schweinfurt ( Memento from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the One to One series. The talk at Bayern 2.
  2. ↑ From the idiot to the Überman - Tommy Jaud read at Graff , braunschweiger-zeitung.de
  3. ↑ www.media-control.com
  4. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on May 23, 2016
  5. ↑ The male Bridget Jones ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fluter.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film.fluter.de
  6. ↑ Two Santa Clauses on sat1.de
  7. ↑ Tommy Jaud's "Resturlaub" is filmed ( memento of the original from May 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kino-zeit.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de
  8. ↑ Quark-Uwe Klingeling: Die Elefanten-Epen, 2020, pp. 85-88.
personal data
SURNAME Yeah, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt