Reading on 23 September 2020 at 7.30 p.m., in the Dünenhus (St. Peter-Ording)
14.09.2020-The Penomanten publishing house is coming to the Dünenhus with some of its authors!
Astrid Franke, the managing director of the Tarper Verlag, whose literature deals with the integration of special people into our society, will read from the diverse and colorful range of all books published by the Tarper Penomanten-Verlag.
In times of Corona, it was not possible to hold a reading for a long time. That is why everyone involved is all the more pleased about the opportunity to finally present the publisher and its books to the public again with a live event in a wonderful location.
(Manja Stegemann)
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the tourist information office (limited to 28 places). Advance booking 8.00 EURO
Telephone 49 48 63 – 999 232
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Advance announcement of the new release “The Magic Land Detectives – The Tooth Fairy”
08/26/2020 - The time has finally come: the children's books published by Penomanten Verlags GmbH will soon be supplemented with two more books for preschool and school children.
In her series "The Magic Land Detectives", the Austrian author Doris Hunter writes wonderful stories that have been specially developed for autistic children to make their everyday lives a little easier. The author, who herself has dyslexia, repeatedly addresses the big problem of the garden, because for young autistic children, this changing environment with often unfamiliar noises is very frightening. The Magic Land Detectives helped the author's autistic children to find their way around their own garden and later also in the park and on the playground a little better and overcome their fears.
In this first volume, Doris Hunter introduces the two detectives Lukas and Hannes and familiarizes them with one of the first big topics in life: the tooth fairy. When baby teeth fall out, it's not just autistic people who get very scared, so the detectives had to overcome this fear.
The children's books were developed with the help of therapists and child psychologists and are deliberately designed with few pictures in order to minimize visual stimuli when reading and reading aloud. They are available in large print to make it easier for young autistic children to learn to read, and in large normal print for preschool and school children. People who have never had anything to do with autistic people can also gain a small insight into the autistic world through this book.
Hunter, Doris: Magic Land Detectives and the Tooth Fairy (Print Letters)
ISBN: 978-3-96614-018-8
Hunter, Doris: Magical Land Detectives and the Tooth Fairy
978-3-96614-019-5
Price:9,90 Euro
(Manja Stegemann)
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Advance announcement of the new release “Silent Blind Flight”
08/26/2020 - The employees of Penomanten Verlags GmbH are eagerly awaiting the continuation of the "SoKo Deluxe" series: With "Lautloser Blindflug", the Tarp author Astrid Franke presents the third novel that sheds light on the work of Germany's first deaf commissioner, Ben Gliencke, and also highlights the problems that deaf people can face in everyday life as a result of their disability.
At an archery range near Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein, a female archer is almost hit by an arrow, although she had taken all the necessary precautions to indicate that someone was in the course. When she finally feels a warm breath on her neck, everything around her goes black. A little later, the phone rings at the police station in Essen and the North German inspector Schröder asks for assistance from the deaf inspector Gliencke. A body has been found on the course and there are not enough sign language interpreters to question the deaf archers. Everything indicates that one of them was a cold-blooded murderer.
With this exciting story, Astrid Franke gives her readers a glimpse into the everyday lives of people with disabilities and how they used to fare in institutions. The book doesn't sugarcoat anything and shows the cruelties that people without disabilities used to commit against those under their care. The result is another gripping crime novel that explains the world of the deaf and thus contributes to a better understanding of it.
Franke, Astrid: Silent Blind Flight
ISBN 978-3-96614-015-7
448 pages, 14.50 euros
(Manja Stegemann)
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Advance announcement of the new release “Dance on the Stars”
The employees of Penomanten Verlags GmbH are looking forward to the upcoming publication of a novel from the category “Stories written by life”. In his first novel, “Dance on the Stars”, the author Stefan Browatzki describes the two sides of life with a manic-depressive illness – that of the sufferer and that of their relatives.
29-year-old Emma loves her boyfriend Tom, but cannot explain his dramatic personality changes and does not want to have to put up with his outbursts any longer. She leaves him and six months later is called to his chaotic apartment because Tom has disappeared without a trace. As she walks through their former home, she discovers a box with mysterious contents on the kitchen table and takes it as the only item from the apartment. At home, Emma begins to pin the notes to her bedroom wall and falls under the spell of a breathtaking journey that Tom experienced after Emma left him. As she reads, her initial fear of his truth, but also her own, turns into an obsessive search for it.
With his gripping writing style, Stefan Browatzki succeeds in drawing the reader into the spell of Tom's feverish road trip and thus sharpening the reader's understanding of people with manic-depressive illness. The novel also contains a detailed glossary that deepens the knowledge gained.
Browatzki, Stefan: Dancing on the Stars
ISBN 978-3-96614-017-1
448 pages, 14.50 euros
(Manja Stegemann)
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On January 15, 2020, a presentation of the books of the Penomanten publishing house took place in the Danish senior residence in Tarp, and it was a complete success. Over coffee and cake, the senior citizens followed the foray that the publisher and sign language interpreter Astrid Franke and the member of the state parliament Kay Richert made together through the literature of the inclusive publishing house. Astrid Franke read from the children's book by Alina Vogt, now 13, who at the tender age of 8 wrote "In Search of Friendship" to get rid of her frustration about her own exclusion from the class. Raik Clausen, now 18, also invented a touching story for children as part of a project with "Kiki and the Search for the Mysterious Leaf". The patron of the Penomanten publishing house, Kay Richert, read from the volume of poetry "Himmel hoch seufzend" by Manja Stegemann, which was also published in 2019, and which he said was "a book full of feelings wrapped up in poetry, in which one recognizes one's own life situations." The publisher Astrid Franke also introduced her guests to the young adult book "Der Zauberwald" by Gunnar Linke and her own crime novels, accompanied by gestures. There was enthusiastic applause for all of them.
Penomanten Verlag was founded in Tarp in 2018 and produces literature written by or about people on the fringes of society. Several of the book covers were created by a deaf illustrator, and a blind proofreader uses his ears to find errors that his sighted colleagues do not notice.
A Penomanten Prize for youth literature is being offered for 2020. We are looking for stories that are imaginative, awakening and take inclusive ideas into account. The deadline for entries is June 30th. The best text will be awarded 300 euros. Anyone can write and send their stories to.
(Manja Stegemann)
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On 15 January 2020, the Tarper Penomanten Verlag will host a reading in the Danish senior residence
On January 13, 2020, an article appeared in the Flensburger Tageblatt about Alina Vogt, the young author of the inclusive Penomanten publishing house. She will be on the jury for the 2020 Penomanten Prize for youth literature, the announcement of which on social media aroused the curiosity of state parliament member Kay Richert. That is why he immediately agreed to come to a reading at the Danish senior citizens' residence in Tarp on Wednesday, January 15, 2020.
The Tarper Penomanten Verlag doesn't just talk about inclusion, it lives it. The publishing house regularly draws on the skills of a deaf illustrator, works with a blind proofreader and employs an authorized representative who is a single mother of a child with disabilities.
The publisher also makes sure that the generations are (re)united, especially in today's world. Alina Vogt will most likely be present at the reading in the "senior citizens' home". This is already the second reading by Penomanten Verlag in a residential complex for older people.
After a long conversation with publisher Astrid Franke, Kay Richert offered
to take on the patronage not only for the literary prize, but also for the publishing house and thus support its work. On Wednesday he will read one of his favorite poems from the poetry collection "Himmel hoch seuzend" by Manja Stegemann.
The reading on January 15, 2020 begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Danish senior residence, Wanderuper Str. 21, 24963 Tarp.
Older people are also allowed to write in the “Penomanten Prize 2020 for Youth Literature” writing competition, and contact has also been established with schools and prisons. Inclusion does not just mean integrating people with disabilities, but all people who have been marginalized for a variety of reasons. The texts can be sent to.
(Manja Stegemann)
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The Tarp author Astrid Franke will be reading on 16 August 2019 at the Hofkita Boreasmühle in Flensburg
In the first half of 2019, the Tarp author Astrid Franke published her first three books with Penomanten Verlag, all of which deal with the sometimes hidden lives of people on the fringes of our society.
Astrid Franke's crime novel "Through the Rooster Crows the Dead" was published on March 1, 2019 under the ISBN number 978-3-96614-000-3 and introduced the character Ben, who investigates in the following books of the "Soko Deluxe" series as Germany's first deaf detective.
The gripping debut describes a double murder that at first seems ordinary, but which shapes and connects the life stories of six very different people without them even really noticing it.
Page after page, the reader is confronted with a number of questions: How are the robbery of a jewelry store and the suicide of the mother of a deaf boy connected to the disappearance of Sascha Krynski, and what does an old lady with a strange connection to a chicken god have to do with everything? Which of the likeable characters have a happy ending, and which perhaps don't? The book captivates its readers and its unusual stories do not let them go so quickly.
"People who are on the fringes of society and have little chance of being recognized are given a face in this book through an exciting story," says one enthusiastic reader. For another, it is her personal book of the year.
After her successful first reading in the Tarper Bürgerhaus at the end of March, Astrid Franke is now inviting her listeners to the rooms of the Flensburg Hofkita Boreasmühle 6 on August 16, 2019 from 6 p.m. This unique, nature-based kindergarten wants to offer an alternative to existing childcare options in Flensburg and is open to new and unusual things. Food and drink will be provided, and the delicious snacks offered during the reading come from the books in the "Soku Deluxe" series.
Astrid Franke was born in Flensburg and has been working with deaf people since 2003. In this work, she encounters our society with the colorful diversity of human characteristics. This is the foundation for the author's first crime novel. In 2004, the book "No Man's Land Against His Will" was published, and in 2008 "We Are Parents", a guide for parents with hearing impairments, was published. In 2019, after "The Dead Crow Through the Rooster", Penomanten Verlag published "Death in a Wheelchair" (ISBN 978-3-96614-002-7) and "Dementia Never Forgets" (ISBN 978-3-96614-004-1).
(Manja Stegemann)
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Author reading in the Tarp Community Center
On Friday, March 29, 2019, from 6:30 p.m., the author Astrid Franke will read from her first novel “Through the Rooster the Dead Crow” in the Tarper Bürgerhaus.
The book was published on March 1, 2019 by Tarper Penomanten Verlag under the ISBN number 978-3-96614-000-3. It describes a double murder that initially seems ordinary, but which shapes the life stories of six very different people without everyone even knowing about it. How are this robbery of an elderly couple and the suicide of the mother of a deaf boy connected to the disappearance of Sascha Krynski? And what does an elderly lady with a strange connection to a chicken god have to do with everything? She appears in all six life stories, but is she also the key to the secret that connects them all?
Astrid Franke gave a first insight into the background of her fascinating story about people on the fringes of society on March 20, 2019 on the Internet radio "Förderadio" and now on March 29, 2019 at a reading in the community center organized by the Tarp interest group. Admission costs 5 euros. Doors open at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.
Astrid Franke was born in Flensburg and has been working with deaf people since 2003. In this work, she encounters our society with the colorful diversity of human characteristics. This is the foundation for the author's first crime novel. In 2004, the book "Niemandsland wider Willen" was published, and in 2008, "Wie sind Eltern", a guide for parents with hearing impairments, was published.
In December 2018, the sign language interpreter founded the Penomanten Verlag in Tarp. It is intended to give all those who are otherwise rarely or not at all published the opportunity to be read and to reach a wider public with their concerns. Astrid Franke and her colleague Manja Stegemann are not only thinking of disabled people, but also of the homeless, prisoners, the elderly and other groups excluded from society.
The book “Through the Rooster Crow the Dead” is also available as an e-book from Amazon.
(Manja Stegemann)
