Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wolfgang herrndorf (12 June 1965 – 26 August 2013) was a German author, painter, and illustrator. Mr village studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He began his career as illustrator and author – among others – for the fanzine Luke & Trooke, the publisher, Haffmans Verlag and the satirical magazine Titanic. In 2002, his debut novel In plush published by two thousand and one storms what. Despite the protagonist's age of approximately 30 years, Mr village, describes the novel as youth novel. Critics described the novel as popular literature, a reworked version of In plush thunderstorms what is republished by Rowohlt in 2008. A collection of interconnected short stories by Mr the village was published by Dell publishing under the title of on this side of the Van Allen belt in 2007; A fictional between Mr village and to untrustworthy Cosmonaut, which contained many elements from the science-fiction interview, was released the same year, by SuKuLTuR-Verlag. Unreliable narrators are a recurring element in the Lord of the village’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 what is featured on the German list of bestselling books for over a year. He published his next novel, Sand in November, 2011. The novel contains elements of crime fiction, society, novels and historical novels. Mr village quipped, the novel could belong to the genre of the “fool of the novel” (idiot novel). Sandy won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012, ‘Tschick’ what is nominated for the same prize the year before. Mr village's friend Robert Koall accepted the prize in Lord of the village's stead. Sand so made it to the shortlist of the German Book Prize Mr village, who lived in Berlin, regularly wrote in the web forum, “We are polite Paparazzi” (German web forum that reports about random encounters with celebrities), which is acknowledged to have had a strong influence on Mr village and worked as a space for resonance. He also participated with contributions for the web blog “the giant machine” (German collaborative blog). He was a member of the national authors of the football team “Autonama”. After being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour (glioblastoma) in February 2010, he began a digital diary called “the Blog work and structure” (the blog Work and Structure) in which he reports about his deadly illness. It was posthumously published in December 2013 by Rowohlt in book form, as the author had requested. On August the 26th 2013, Mr. village committed suicide in Berlin. He was interred at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin. In 2014, Rowohlt published the sequel of Tschick from Isa's point of view as an unfinished novel with the title images of your great love (Pictures Of Your True Love). The epilogue by Kathrin Passig and Marcus Gärtner states that Mr village himself approved the release and determined the title. The book was first performed as a play in 2015 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, directed by Jan Gehlers.