Volker Strübing

Volker Strübing (2001)

Volker Strübing (born April 22, 1971 in Sondershausen ) is a German writer , songwriter and animator .

Life

Volker Strübing was born in Thuringia in 1971 and grew up in Saxony-Anhalt and the Berlin district of Marzahn . He is a trained specialist in data processing and has lived in Berlin since 1978. His artistic career began with programming music for C64 games. In 1990 he developed the computer game Atomino with Tube (Tobias Herre) and Uwe Beneke for the Blue Byte company . On July 4, 1996, Strübing founded the Berlin reading stage LSD - love instead of drugs - together with Tube , Spider ( Andreas Krenzke ), Uwe Beneke, Sabine Mylius, Andre Lange, Klaus Schwarz and Gunar Klemm . From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the Berliner Lesebühne Chaussee der Enthusiasten . On September 9, 2000 he founded the Berliner Lesebühne Kantinenlesen together with Dan Richter .

Since 2004 he has appeared regularly at poetry slams himself or as a team LSD (together with Michael Ebeling) . The focus of his work are short, satirical texts that are primarily written for reading aloud.

Since May 2007, Volker Strübing has been designing the animated film series Kloß & Spinne , in which he also speaks all the roles himself. So far he has published 24 episodes and 5 “quickies” on his blog “Schnipselfriedhof”.

As a director and author, he shot the four-part travel report Not the South on behalf of ZDF . Together with Kirsten Fuchs , Strübing wrote a book of the same name while traveling to the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen, which was published by Voland & Quist .

Since June 2009, Volker Strübing has been working again as a writer and director on a three-part travel report Mister & Missis.Sippi for 3sat , which was produced by ZDF on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death ; Until August 2009 he rode the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans on a raft together with the ZDF presenter Patricia Schäfer .

Awards

October 2005: Winner - Slam2005 , Poetry Slam Championship of the German-speaking area , Leipzig
2006: Second place - German Science Fiction Prize 2006 (Category: Best Novel with Paradise on the Edge of the City )
2006, 2008, 2016: Winner - Poetry Slam Championship of the German-speaking area (Category: Team competition as Team LSD together with Michael Ebeling)
2008: Holzerner Besen - Young cabaret artist competition Stuttgart Besen (Category: Solo)
2012: Winner - BB Slam , Poetry Slam Championships Berlin / Brandenburg
2013: City clerk of Bayreuth

Works

novel

Paradise on the outskirts of the city . yedermann , Riemerling near Munich 2005, ISBN 3-935269-30-7 (new edition 2013).

Anthologies of stories

A brick for Dörte . Voland & Quist , Dresden / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938424-23-0 (paperback 2010).
The girl with the pipe in her ear and the boy with the spoon in her throat . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-86391-026-6 .

Trip descriptions

with Kirsten Fuchs: Not the south . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-938424-34-6 .
with Matthias Seifert (illustrator): Mister & Missis.Sippi . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-938424-48-3 .

Contributions

with Andreas Kampa, Robert Naumann, Dan Richter, Jochen Schmidt and Stephan Serin: Chaussee der Enthusiasten - The most beautiful writers in Berlin tell something . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-938424-07-9 .
with Micha Ebeling, Uli Hannemann, Andreas “Spider” Krenzke, Tobias “Tube” Herre, Ivo Smolak and Sascha Kroß: LSD - love instead of drugs . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-938424-14-1 .

Animation film

Dumpling & Spider (DVD) . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-938424-43-8 .

literature

Matthias Grimmeisen: DemoNews asks, stars answer - Volker Strübing . In: DemoNews . March 1, 2006.
Michael Schmidt: 7 questions - 7 answers: Volker Strübing - SF and satire . In: Fantasyguide . September 3, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Volker Strübing - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Volker Strübing in the catalog of the German National Library
Volker Strübing's channel on YouTube
volkerstruebing.de - own website

Individual evidence

↑ Four at the edge . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1991, pp. 194-195 ( online ).
↑ Falko Hennig: History of the reading stages
↑ Christoph Schlegel: Poetry as a martial arts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 2007, p. 138-140 ( online ).
↑ Volker Strübung, Andreas Krenzke: Dumpling and spider. In: Schnipselfriedhof. Retrieved October 19, 2011 .
↑ The team. In: Mister & Missis.Sippi. Retrieved January 2, 2010 .
↑ Ralf Julke: Mr. and Mrs. Sippi: What drives a Leipzig draftsman to the Old Man River? In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung . June 21, 2009 ( l-iz.de [accessed January 2, 2009]).
↑ Ralf Julke: A Leipziger on the Old Man River: Matthias Seifert's adventure Mississippi . In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung . September 20, 2009 ( l-iz.de [accessed January 2, 2009]).

personal data
SURNAME	Strübing, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, author and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sondershausen

[1] Four at the edge . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1991, pp. 194-195 ( online ).

[2] Falko Hennig: History of the reading stages

[3] Christoph Schlegel: Poetry as a martial arts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 2007, p. 138-140 ( online ).

[4] Volker Strübung, Andreas Krenzke: Dumpling and spider. In: Schnipselfriedhof. Retrieved October 19, 2011 .

[5] The team. In: Mister & Missis.Sippi. Retrieved January 2, 2010 .

[6] Ralf Julke: Mr. and Mrs. Sippi: What drives a Leipzig draftsman to the Old Man River? In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung . June 21, 2009 ( l-iz.de [accessed January 2, 2009]).

[7] Ralf Julke: A Leipziger on the Old Man River: Matthias Seifert's adventure Mississippi . In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung . September 20, 2009 ( l-iz.de [accessed January 2, 2009]).