Wieland friend

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Wieland Freund (* 1969 near Paderborn ) is a German journalist , literary critic , author and translator .

Life

Wieland Freund was born in 1969 to Winfried Freund . He studied German and English . Since 2010 he has worked as an editor in the literature section of the daily newspaper Die Welt . In addition to his journalistic work, Freund writes books for children and young people. For Lisa's book and for Gespensterlied he received the Bavarian Art Prize and for Krakonos 2018 the Pied Piper Literature Prize ; for Nemi and Hehmann he was awarded the Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg for 2019.

His successful completion of a last children's book by Michael Ende , which originally only comprised three opening chapters, caused a sensation , who died before he could complete the stalled book project. The reviewer for Deutschlandfunk Kultur described that “there is no noticeable break between the two parts”.

Freund is married and has three children. He lives with his family in Berlin .

Works

Adult literature

  • Wieland Freund, Winfried Freund (ed.): The German novel of the present (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2001)
  • Living in Germany. A conversation with Wieland Freund ( CH Beck , Munich, 2004)

Children's and young people's literature

as an author

Single novels

  • Lisa's Book (2003)
  • Ghost Song (2004)
  • The Unlikely Journey of Jonas Nothing (2007)
  • Krabbabauz! (2009)
  • Wrong Game in Silver City (2011)
  • Me, Toft and the ghost dog by Sandkas (2014)
  • Krakonos (2017)
  • Nemi and the Hehmann (2019)
  • Three Black Hangovers - Krispin and the Most Powerful Magic in the World (2020)

The black carbuncle

  • The black carbuncle - tulip fever (2009)
  • The Spirit of Zweiseelen (2010)

Törtel the turtle

  • Törtel, the turtle from McGrün (2011)
  • Törtel and the Wolf (2012)
  • Törtel and number 3 (2013)

The elven forest

  • Never wake a chatter! (2013)
  • Never dream of the wild hunt! (2015)

Completion of a fragment of a novel by Michael Ende

as translator (together with Andrea Wandel )
  • Tom Avery : My Brother's Shadow (2014)
  • TS Easton : Ben Fletcher's Totally Ingenious Mesh (2015)
  • Steve Cole : Astrosaur : Revenge of the Raptors (2015)
  • Steve Cole: Astrosaur - The Hell Monster from the Egg (2015)
  • Steve Cole: Astrosaur - Deep Sea Lizard Attack (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tom Avery: The shadow of my brother ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Radio Bremen
  2. ^ Wieland Freund, Winfried Freund (eds.): The German novel of the present (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2001)
  3. ↑ a b author's page , Die Welt
  4. ↑ Pied Piper Literature Prize 2018 - Wieland Freund wins with "Krakonos" , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on April 18, 2018
  5. ↑ ver.di Literature Prize goes to Wieland Freund , buchmarkt.de, May 13, 2020, accessed on May 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ Sylvia Schwab: Successful completion of a Michael Ende novel , review in Deutschlandfunk Kultur, published and accessed on February 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Friend, Wieland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH near Paderborn