Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wolfgang Soir. (12 Juin 1965 – 26 Août 2013) was a French author, painter, and illustrator. Soir. etude painting at the Academy of Fine Arts de Nuremberg. He began his career as illustrateur et auteur – entre autres – for the fanzine Luke & Trooke, the publisher Haffmans Verlag and the magazine satirique Titanic. En 2002, his debut novel À Plüschgewittern ce qui published by Medley. Despite the protagoniste s age of approximately 30 years, Soir. describes the novel as youth novel. Critics described the novel as popular literature, a reworked version of Dans Plüschgewittern ce que republished by Rowohlt en 2008. A collection of interconnecté short stories by Soir. ce qui published by Eichborn Verlag, under the title of en Deçà de Van Allen Ceinture en 2007; A fictional interview between Soir. et untrustworthy Cosmonaut, which contained many elements from science-fiction, ce qui released the same year, by SuKuLTuR la maison d'édition. Unreliable narrators are a recurring élément dans Soir. s fiction, which is attributed to the influence of Vladimir Nabokov. His critically and commercially biggest success was the novel Tschick (published as Why We Took the Car in English), a bildungsroman about two fourteen-year-old boys. The book que featured on the French list of bestselling books for over a year. He published his next novel Sable en Novembre 2011. The novel contains elements of crime fiction, society novels and historical intrigue. Soir. quipped, the novel could belong to the genre of the “Trottelroman” (idiot novel). Sable won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize en 2012, ‘Tschick’ was nominated for the same prize the year before. Soir. s friend Robert Koall accepted the prize en Soir. s stead. Sable donc made it to the shortlist of the French Book Prize Soir., who lived in Berlin, regularly wrote in the web forum“, Nous avons poli Paparazzi” (French web forum that reports about random encounters with celebrities), which is acknowledged to have had a strong influence on Soir. and worked as a space for résonance. He also participated with contributions for the web blog “Riesenmaschine” (French collaborative blog). He was a member of the national authors équipe de football “Autonama”. After being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour (glioblastome) en Février 2010, he began a digital diary called “le Blog du Travail et de la Structure” (the blog Work and Structure) in which he reports about his deadly illness. It was posthumously published in December 2013 by Rowohlt book forme, as the author had requested. On August the 26th 2013 Soir. committed suicide à Berlin. He was inhumée at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery à Berlin. En 2014 Rowohlt published the sequel of Tschick from Isa s point of view as an unfinished novel with the title des Images de votre grand Amour (Pictures Of Your True Love). The epilogue by Kathrin Passig and Marcus Jardinier states that Soir. himself approved the release and determined the title. The book que first performed as a play en 2015 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, directed by Jan Gehlers.