Volker Precelt

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Volker Präkelt (born May 14, 1956 in Recklinghausen ) is a German author and director .

Life

After graduating from high school in his hometown, Volker Präkelt studied journalism at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster until 1982 , after which he worked as a jazz piano teacher and played in various bands. Precelt moved to Berlin and after an internship and a traineeship he became music editor at SFB 2 , where he moderated the broadcast ARD-Rocknacht . In 1990 he came to Hamburg, where he initially worked as a freelancer for Norddeutscher Rundfunk , before becoming editor-in-chief of the Canale Grande media magazine , which was awarded the Grimme Prize in 1994 . Subsequently, he was program director of the music channel VH-1 Germany and in the Milchstrasse publishing group .

From 2003, Präkelt had great success with the television format Marvi Hämmer , which he developed, with the 3D animated rat of the same name as the presenter of a knowledge series for children. In addition to the 104 episodes in total, Präkelt created 75 stories as audio books . For the non-fiction series BAFF! He has written various titles for the Arena Verlag , and the NDR produced three radio plays Prekelts.

Today, Volker Präkelt works as a freelance writer and director for, among other things, the culture journal and the adventure diagnosis series , two broadcast formats of the NDR, and is the managing director of the Mediendeck oHG, a production company for TV, music and audio book productions in Hamburg.

Radio plays

  • 2009: The Last Hippie - Director: Ulrich Lampen , Composition: Volker Präkelt
  • 2012: Beat! Beat! Beat! or How Labskaus got into the Leslie - direction and composition: Volker Präkelt
  • 2013: The Dark Side Of The Moon - Direction and composition: Volker Präkelt
  • 2015: Dr. Feelgood or nothing but chemistry - direction and composition: Volker Präkelt
  • 2019: The fifth angel - written and directed by Volker Präkelt

Books (selection)

  • Lots of courage (Rowohlt, 1987, together with Kurt Weichler)
  • Man, mammoth! (Arena, 2012)
  • Titus Slipping Toga (Arena, 2013)
  • My Atlas (Carlsen, 2014)
  • My great music book (Carlsen, 2015)
  • Limbradur and the magic of gravity (Mixtvision Verlag, 2017. Based on an idea by Peter Popp. With illustrations by Ulf K.)

Awards

  • 2005: Golden Sparrow for Marvi Hämmer presented National Geographic World (Prize of the Children's Jury)
  • 2006: Annual award of the German record industry for the Marvi Hämmer audio books
  • 2008: German Children's Radio Play Prize for The Adventurous World of Pirates

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait at adamriese.info , accessed on October 15, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d website of Volker Präkelt , accessed on October 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Precelt, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen