Volker Müller (journalist)

Volker Müller (born January 5, 1952 in Plauen , Vogtland) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Müller grew up as the first of three siblings in Hohndorf , east Thuringia, between Greiz and Plauen, in simple circumstances. In 1970 he passed the Abitur in Greiz, studied from 1970 to 1974 at the Erfurt / Mühlhausen University of Education, where he graduated as a certified teacher in the field of German / Russian. After three years of teaching in the Potsdam-Land district, Müller studied music at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau from 1978 to 1980 . Between 1977 and 1984 he was a clarinetist in the Greiz State Symphony Orchestra, from 1984 to 1986 he worked in the district cabinet for cultural work in Gera, after which he worked as a dance musician in Greiz until 1990. From 1990 to 1994 Müller trained as an editor at the Frankenpost and worked until 1997 as Greizer local editor of the “ Thüringenpost ”.

Since April 1998 Müller has been working as a freelance journalist and writer. In 2009 his first play was performed with “The Prize Winner”. Müller had already written as a schoolboy and belonged to the opposition Greizer circle around the poet Günter Ullmann .

Müller, who has lived in Greiz since 1977, is married and has two children.

Works

• 2001: No buck hunting ducks. Features and reflections on the Bach-Jahr Mauer Verlag. Rottenburg. ISBN 3-935121-16-4 .
• 2001: The way to Sanssouci. The Fontane year. Notes, pleadings and escapades. Königshausen & Neumann. Wurzburg. ISBN 3-8260-2075-8 .
• 2002: Prominent mushroom poisoning. Portraits. Edition Muschelkalk, volume eight. Wartburg publishing house. Weimar. ISBN 3-86160-308-X .
• 2004: A thousand and one passions. Features, scenes, travel pictures, essays from Germany on the Chekhov year with special attention to Thuringia. Ingo Koch Publishing House. Rostock. ISBN 3-937179-45-3 .
• 2006: The Magic Flute, second part. Mozart and Thuringia - a little foray. Wartburg publishing house. Weimar. ISBN 978-3-86160-182-1
• 2008: The gala concert. Little prose. Wartburg publishing house. Weimar. ISBN 978-3-86160-404-4 .
• 2009: The quick doctorate. Robert Schumann and Thuringia - a little foray. Publishing house Dohr. Cologne. ISBN 978-3-936655-60-5 .
• 2010: In the wonderful month of May. Plays about Clara and Robert Schumann for the theater and for reading. God green.
• 2012: cormorants. Stories. UND publishing house. Stadtroda. ISBN 978-3-927437-50-0 .
• 2015: My city is one pigeon flight big. Poems. Free edition God Green.
• 2017: Corvette Menz. Novel. UND publishing house. Stadtroda. ISBN 978-3-927437-54-8 .
• 2017: Praise the trees. Woodcuts by Peter Zaumseil, poems by Volker Müller. Triple press. Elsterberg.
• 2018: forgotten centimeters. Poems & sayings between Neuendorf and Idahöhe. Engelsdorfer Verlag. Leipzig. ISBN 978-3-96145-276-7 .
• 2018: Painting trees in November. Little prose. BS publishing house. Rostock. ISBN 978-3-86785-441-2 .
• 2019: blonde rescue. Stories from a nearby, distant land. Engelsdorfer Verlag. Leipzig. ISBN 978-3-96145-441-9 .
• 2019: Quartet for the ages. Essays. Essays, reflections. Engelsdorfer Verlag. Leipzig. ISBN 978-3-96145-858-5 .
• 2020: Farewell to Sontamur. Novel. Engelsdorfer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-96145-930-8 .

Plays

• The winner , 2009 in Greiz
• The talkative guest . 2010 in Greiz F
• A new era begins in 2010 in Greiz

Awards

• In 1999 and 2004 Müller received author grants from the Free State of Thuringia.
• In April 2018 Müller received the first ever Vogtland Literature Prize in the field of fiction.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Greizer Theaterhebst
2. ↑ Vogland mirror
3. ↑ Greizer Theaterherbst  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Biography at the Thuringian Literature Council