Thor Kunkel
Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Following his return to West Germany, Kunkel joined the staff of advertising agency Young & Rubicam, then in 1988 joined the Swiss GGK in London, England. After marrying Dutch artist Gerda Bakker, he moved to Amsterdam in 1992 and re-joined Young & Rubicam as creative director, quitting in 1996 to take up directing and writing. He now lives in Switzerland and the Netherlands. His first novel, The Blacklight-Terrarium (1999), won him a major German literary prize. His 2011 novel Subs will be put into a film with the same title by director Oskar Roehler.[1]
Bibliography
- Das Schwarzlicht-Terrarium (2000) ISBN 3-499-22646-4
- Ein Brief an Hanny Porter (2000) ISBN 3-499-22678-2
- Endstufe (2004) ISBN 3-8218-0753-9
- Kuhls Kosmos (2008) ISBN 3-927734-41-1
- Schaumschwester (2010) ISBN 3-88221-690-5
- Subs (2011) ISBN 3453266927
- Wanderful - Mein neues Leben in den Bergen, Eichborn-Verlag, Köln, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8479-0568-4
- Das Wörterbuch der Lügenpresse: Deutsch – Lügenpresse, Lügenpresse – Deutsch. Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8644-5733-3.
- Endstufe. Die unzensierte Originalfassung. Edition Kunkelversum, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3982078939.
- Zum Abschuss freigegeben. Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg 2020, ISBN 978-3864457715.