Andreas Mand

Andreas Mand
Born	(1959-12-14) December 14, 1959 Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Occupation	novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist,
Language	german,
Nationality
Citizenship	german
Education	Magister in Media Studies
Alma mater	University of Osnabrück
Period	1982-present
Genre	Novels, short storys, 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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Andreas Mand (born December 14, 1959^[1]) is a German contemporary author of novels, short storys and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German Popular literature.^[2]

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. Today, Andreas Mand is working and living in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Germany.

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 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.

2009 Fairport Convention in: Rock Stories: Fifty short stories about music and their significance,^[4] 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)),^[5] Harald Keller/Reiner Wolf, Oktoberverlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-941895-16-4

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

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^[6] (Eine kleine Feile), which today can probably be attributed to the musical movement Hamburger Schule.