Axel Schock

Axel Schock (born 11 September 1965 in Neckarbischofsheim, Baden-Württemberg) is a German journalist and author.

Axel Schock
Born(1965-09-11)11 September 1965
Neckarbischofsheim, Germany
Occupationwriter
NationalityGerman

Schock grew up in Sinsheim. He studied literature and theater at the Free University of Berlin. In 1982 he published his first work and in 1985 received the Scheffelpreis, a prize in literature awarded to high school graduates.

He lives openly gay[1][2] in Berlin [3]and works as a journalist and editor for different magazines and newspapers, including the gay magazine Hinnerk in Hamburg and citymag Berlin. As a freelance author, he writes articles for daily newspapers like Berliner Zeitung, taz and Berliner Morgenpost. Schock also writes features for radio (for example RIAS Berlin, DeutschlandRadio and Radio 100) and for TV. He has also written under a pseudonym.

Selected works (in German)
  • Schreib-Spuren. (Co-Editor) (1993)
  • Zehn Minuten. Jetzt. Kürzestgeschichten. (1993)
  • I'm crazy for das Holzfällerhemd. (1994)
  • Der schwule Sprachführer. (with Ulf Meyer) (1996)
  • Out!: 800 berühmte Lesben, Schwule und Bisexuelle. (with Karen-Susan Fessel), 5. Edition. (2004)
  • Das Queer Quiz Buch. (with Ulrike Anhamm) (1996)
  • Ein letzter Gruß. Trauer – Anatomie eines Gefühls. (1997)
  • Die Bibliothek von Sodom. Das Buch der schwulen Bücher. (1998)
  • Die Cazzo-Story. Pornostars, made in Germany. (2000)
  • Die acapickels drücken sich aus. (2000)
  • Der schöne Mann ist tot. Beiträge zum Literaturpreis der Schwulen Buchläden. (Editor, 2003)
  • Out im Kino. Das lesbisch-schwule Filmlexikon. (with Manuela Kay) (2004)
  • Out-Takes Das lesbisch-schwule Lexikon des unnützen Wissens. (with Karin Schupp) (2005)
  • Mein schwules Auge 3. (with Rinaldo Hopf) (2006)
  • Schwule Orte. 150 berühmt-berüchtigte Schauplätze (2007)
  • Mein schwules Auge 4. (with Rinaldo Hopf) (2007)
  • Mein schwules Auge 5. (with Rinaldo Hopf) (2008)
  • Mein schwules Auge 6. (with Rinaldo Hopf) (2009)

Prizes
gollark: There *may* be a god of some kind who rewards you for believing in them and their afterlife and such, but there is an infinity of possible gods including ones like "allocates you to heaven or hell entirely at random", "entirely indistinguishable from no god", "sends you to hell if you believe in the *other* god", "incomprehensible eldritch abomination" or "literal bees".
gollark: PASACL'S WAGER BAD
gollark: ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆA
gollark: Whether there *is*... some supernatural thing after death, such as an afterlife... is pretty much independent of whether you believe it or not, and while the exact form of that *may* depend on your beliefs about it, that makes a LOT of presumptions about god or who/what created the system which are not supported.
gollark: Pascal's Wager BAD.

References
  1. Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language, by William L. Leap/Tom Boellstorff, University of Illinois Press 2003
  2. Brockmann, Stephen; James D. Steakley; Jost Hermand (September 2001). Heroes and heroism in German culture. Rodopi. pp. 217–221. ISBN 90-420-1456-3.
  3. ed. David A. Gerstner: Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, p.247
  4. Axel Schock, Der schöne Mann ist tot Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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