Andreas Mand (born 14 December 1959) 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, and in addition a
stay-at-home dad
A stay-at-home dad (alternatively, full-time father, stay-at-home father, house dad, househusband, or house-spouse) is a father who is the main caregiver of the children and is generally the homemaker of the household. The female equivalent is ...
, because he wanted to be an active part of his children's lives.
Education and life
Andreas Mand was born in
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as the son of a
parson.
After
elementary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
he attended the
Fichte- Gymnasium Krefeld. Then he studied at the
University of Osnabrück and attained the
Magister degree in
Media Studies
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...
. 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
Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the greatest town between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detm ...
, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Work
Novels
* 1982 ''Walks away. A school article'' (''Haut ab. Ein Schulaufatz''), Nemo Press,
Hamburg,
* 1984 ''Internal unrests'' (''Innere Unruhen''), Kellner-Verlag, Hamburg, .
* 1990 ''Grovers invention'' (''Grovers Erfindung)'', List-Taschenbuchverlag,
Munich, .
* 1992 The dream of the Konditor (''Der Traum des Konditors''), Unabhängige Verlagsbuchhandlung,
Berlin, .
* 1993 ''Grover at the lake'' (''Grover am See''), 2. Aufl. MaroVerlag,
Augsburg, .
* 1994 ''Peng'', Edition Solitude, Stuttgart, .
* 1994 ''The red ship'', (''Das rote Schiff''), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, .
* 1996 ''Small Town heroes'', (''Kleinstadthelden''), Ammann Verlag,
Zurich, .
* 1998 Cataloguing of
childhood memories: ''The great Groverbook'', (''Das Große Grover Buch''), Ammann Verlag, Zurich, .
* 2001 ''Child of father'' (''Vaterkind''), Residenz-Verlag,
Salzburg, .
* 2004 ''Bad night-narrative'' (''Schlechtenachtgeschichte''), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, .
* 2006 ''Paul and the Beatmashine'' (''Paul und die Beatmaschine''), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, .
* 2015 ''The second Garden'' (''Der zweite Garten''), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, .
Short stories and essays
* 2009 ''
Fairport Convention
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'' in: ''Rock Stories: Fifty short stories about music and their significance'', Verlag Langen Müller,
* 2011 Essay in: ''
Rumba with the Rum drunkards'' (''Rumba mit den Rumsäufern''), Frank Schäfer, Oktoberverlag
Münster,
* 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)''), Harald Keller/Reiner Wolf, Oktoberverlag Münster,
Plays
* 2010 ''The Grover game'' (''Das Grover Spiel'') and ''Practice room eternity'' (''Proberaum Ewigkeit''), MaroVerlag, Augsburg, .
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'' (''Eine kleine Feile''), which today can probably be attributed to the musical movement ''
Hamburger Schule
The ''Hamburger Schule'' (German for 'Hamburg School') is a music movement current in Germany during the 1980s and early 1990s. With some active bands and artists it is still present. It took up traditions of Neue Deutsche Welle and combined them w ...
''.
* ''Siebenkäs songs (Siebenkäs-Lieder)'', based on the novel
Siebenkäs, by
Jean Paul (Demo, 2
tapes), 1998
Awards
* 1992 Literary award of
Lower Rhine
* 1996 Nominated for the
Ingeborg Bachmann PrizeIngeborg Bachmann Prize
– Nominated authors 1996 (ORF
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* Norfolk International Airport, IATA airport code ORF
* Observer Research Foundation, an Indian research institute
* One Race Films, a film production company founded by Vin Diesel
* Open reading frame, a portion of t ...
), Retrieved 10 October 2016
* 2000 Candide Preis
See also
References
External links
about Andreas Mand
at the site of Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
*
Review of the Grover books
at schoenerlesen.de (German)
in: NRW Literatur im Netz
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1959 births
20th-century German novelists
21st-century German novelists
German male short story writers
German short story writers
Living people
German male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century German dramatists and playwrights
German singer-songwriters
German essayists
German-language poets
20th-century German short story writers
21st-century short story writers
20th-century essayists
21st-century essayists
20th-century German male writers
21st-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers