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Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
About Matthias Mala
- Matthias Mala (27 December 1950 in Munich) is a German author and artist.
- In 1977, he gave up his profession as a hotel and industrial kitchen furnisher and began his career as a freelance artist as a street painter.
- His interest in batik techniques led him into fabric design.
- He designed fabric patterns for furniture and decorations.
- He was also involved in the development of games.
- Among other things, he invented over 100 games for pad and pencil.
- The publication of these games in 1986 was the cornerstone of his writing career.
- Other games and children's books followed very quickly.
- Through the combination of games and mysticism in the form of fortune telling books, a further focal point of his writing activity arose.
- In particular, he devoted himself to white magic, which he called theurgy, about which he published several works through Verlag Peter Erd. He also wrote radio plays, a theatre play and comic texts.
- As a poet he published anthologies.
- He also devotes himself to haiku poetry, where he contributes to anthologies at home and abroad.
- The main focus of his artistic work is traditional ink drawing. So far Mala has published 70 books, most of which he has illustrated himself.
- Three radio plays have been produced and one play performed.
- There is a literary online project, Gegenüber ("Opposite"), in which he described the view of the house opposite him from the window of his study for a year at the turn of the millennium. He has been a member of the Association of German Authors (Verband deutscher Schriftsteller or VS) since 1988.
- Since May 2008 he has also been a member of the PEN Centre Germany.
- Furthermore, he was member of the board of VS Bavaria from 2005 to 2008.
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