Andreas Mand

Andreas Mand (born 14 December 1959^[1]) is a German contemporary author of novels, short stories and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German Popular literature,^[2] and in addition a stay-at-home dad, because he wanted to be an active part of his children's lives.

Andreas Mand
Born	(1959-12-14) 14 December 1959 (age 65) Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Occupation	Novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist,
Language	German
Education	Magister in Media Studies
Alma mater	University of Osnabrück
Period	1982–present
Genre	Novels, short stories, essays, rock music (lyrics), plays,
Subject	Personal life
Literary movement	contemporary literature
Notable works	Child of father (Vaterkind), ISBN 3-7017-1262-X.
Notable awards	Candide Preis
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Education and life

Andreas Mand was born in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as the son of a parson.^[3]
After elementary school he attended the Fichte- Gymnasium Krefeld. Then he studied at the University of Osnabrück and attained the Magister degree in Media Studies. Later he lived for a while in Berlin and Duisburg. Several years he has been working as a stay at home father, and only wrote in his leisure, while his wife works outside of the home. Sometimes, the role of stay-at-home dad was difficult for him, because in Germany, this practice is less common. Mand is working and living in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Work

Novels

• 1982 Walks away. A school article (Haut ab. Ein Schulaufatz), Nemo Press, Hamburg, ISBN 3-922513-09-3
• 1984 Internal unrests (Innere Unruhen), Kellner-Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 3-922035-27-2.
• 1990 Grovers invention (Grovers Erfindung), List-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, ISBN 3-612-65032-7.
• 1992 The dream of the Konditor (Der Traum des Konditors), Unabhängige Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, ISBN 3-86172-029-9.
• 1993 Grover at the lake (Grover am See), 2. Aufl. MaroVerlag, Augsburg, ISBN 3-87512-213-5.
• 1994 Peng, Edition Solitude, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-929085-13-5.
• 1994 The red ship, (Das rote Schiff), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, ISBN 3-87512-225-9.
• 1996 Small Town heroes, (Kleinstadthelden), Ammann Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-250-10292-X.
• 1998 Cataloguing of childhood memories:^[4] The great Groverbook, (Das Große Grover Buch), Ammann Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-250-60016-4.
• 2001 Child of father (Vaterkind), Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg, ISBN 3-7017-1262-X.
• 2004 Bad night-narrative (Schlechtenachtgeschichte), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, ISBN 3-87512-272-0.
• 2006 Paul and the Beatmashine (Paul und die Beatmaschine), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, ISBN 978-3-87512-278-7.
• 2015 The second Garden (Der zweite Garten), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, ISBN 978-3-87512-471-2.^[5]

Short stories and essays

• 2009 Fairport Convention in: Rock Stories: Fifty short stories about music and their significance,^[6] Verlag Langen Müller, ISBN 978-3-7844-3195-6
• 2011 Essay in: Rumba with the Rum drunkards (Rumba mit den Rumsäufern), Frank Schäfer, Oktoberverlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-941895-14-0
• 2011 Short stories in: Hyde Park-Memories. A music club of Osnabrück and the history (stories) (Hyde Park-Memories. Ein Osnabrücker Musikclub und seine Geschichte(n)),^[7] Harald Keller/Reiner Wolf, Oktoberverlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-941895-16-4

Plays

• 2010 The Grover game (Das Grover Spiel) and Practice room eternity (Proberaum Ewigkeit), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, ISBN 978-3-87512-289-3.

Compact Disc

• Some time from 1984 to 1989 he was singer-songwriter of his own band of musicians that plays popular music and
  in 2007 he published a Demo Compact Disc Popmusik: A little file^[8] (Eine kleine Feile), which today can probably be attributed to the musical movement Hamburger Schule.
• Siebenkäs songs (Siebenkäs-Lieder), based on the novel Siebenkäs, by Jean Paul (Demo, 2 tapes), 1998^[9]

Awards

• 1992 Literary award of Lower Rhine
• 1996 Nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize^[10]
• 2000 Candide Preis

See also