Wolfgang Sanden
Wolfgang Sanden (born October 13, 1946 in Hildesheim ) is a German writer .
Life
Wolfgang Sanden spent the first years of his life in Bockenem am Harz . After relocating due to family reasons, he first went to school in Frankfurt am Main and then in Offenbach / Main . After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and computer science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He completed his studies as a mathematician .
Sanden then worked in various jobs in the IT industry for thirty years . Among other things, he has worked as a programmer, systems analyst, consultant, quality manager and trainer. Today he lives as a freelance writer in Offenbach. He is married and has two grown sons.
Wolfgang Sanden began to write at the age of sixteen, but only to entertain those around him. During his professional life he could only devote himself to writing sporadically. It was only his early retirement that enabled him to fulfill this long-cherished dream of life.
About the works
In the novels Murder beginning , Aulenstein , false calculated, Grated and the second volume (this is in contrast to the years of publication the chronological order in terms of development of the protagonist), he tells the tale of Dagolf Sennwang which is rather randomly entangled in criminal cases. The novels are characterized by a dense mood of people, landscapes, everyday professional life in the IT world and social conditions. The style is quite ironic , sometimes sarcastic .
In the formally demanding novel Daktylysator or Wichardt's Brave New World - it plays on three levels - Sanden spans 40 years of Federal Republican history and in a "novel in a novel" addresses the misuse of biometric data, here the electronic fingerprint , by making the gloomy one Drafts a scenario of a revolutionary overthrow.
The story Last Class Reunion describes the gathering of former students 42 years after graduating from high school, which initially indulges in cheerful memories before it becomes a reckoning of events that seem to have long since passed. The fate and thoughts of those born shortly after the war are also discussed in a polyphonic choir.
The novel And Know Their End , takes up the dangers of rapidly rising health care costs in an aging society . A genetic discovery opens up unimagined savings opportunities for those in charge of politics - at the expense of ethics and morals. The sick and the old threaten to become objects of a purely economic usefulness analysis.
In the political fiction Der Filmfälscher , the Stasi managed to smuggle its own people into the highest government offices without being noticed. With this background knowledge, the twisting and twisting policies of the government suddenly seem understandable. This novel about friendship, betrayal and conspiracy, which plays with reality and takes a surprising turn at the end, takes a critical look at Germany today.
Can plants feel pain and even communicate this to their environment? And what would follow from that? Phytomania provides the answer in the form of a satire on the social sensitivities of our days, which are characterized by the tendency towards collective excitement and conspiracy theories - both fueled by the talkativeness of the media, especially the "social networks".
The quota targets the growing number of quota solutions in many areas of public life and satirically drives these attempts to create “social justice” with moral pressure and all sorts of legal means to the extreme.
The stage work Sommertheater - una commedia atemporale sees itself as a cheerful homage to the comedy poetry of past centuries and at the same time to the many large and small summer and open-air theaters . In the piece, which is formally set in 18th century Italy, the levels of time are mixed up in an allusive way.
Catalog raisonné
- Aulenstein , Munich 2005
- Beginning of the murder , Munich 2006
- Daktylysator or Wichardt's Brave New World , Munich 2007
- Summer theater - una commedia atemporale , 2007
- Incorrectly calculated , Munich 2008
- Last class reunion , Munich 2009
- And yet they know their end , Halle 2010
- The film forger , Offenbach 2012
- Triturated , Offenbach 2014
- Phytomania , Berlin 2015
- The second volume , Norderstedt 2017
- The quota , Norderstedt 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Sanden in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.wolfgang-sanden.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanden, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |