Andreas Mand (born 14 December 1959) is a German contemporary author of novels,
short stories
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and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German
Popular literature
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, and in addition a stay-at-home dad, because he wanted to be an active part of his children's lives.
Education and life
Andreas Mand was born in
Duisburg
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, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as the son of a
parson
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Krefeld
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. Then he studied at the
University of Osnabrück
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and attained the
Magister degree
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Berlin
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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
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Munich
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* 1992 The dream of the Konditor (''Der Traum des Konditors''), Unabhängige Verlagsbuchhandlung,
Berlin
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, .
* 1993 ''Grover at the lake'' (''Grover am See''), 2. Aufl. MaroVerlag,
Augsburg
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* 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
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, .
* 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'' in: ''Rock Stories: Fifty short stories about music and their significance'', Verlag Langen Müller,
* 2011 Essay in: ''
Rumba
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with the Rum drunkards'' (''Rumba mit den Rumsäufern''), Frank Schäfer, Oktoberverlag
Münster
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,
* 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,
* 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''.
* ''Siebenkäs songs (Siebenkäs-Lieder)'', based on the novel
Siebenkäs
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, by
Jean Paul
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Life and work
Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Fichtelgebirge mountain ...
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Awards
* 1992 Literary award of
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* 1996 Nominated for the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
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* 2000
Candide Preis
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History
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NRW Literatur im Netz
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