Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling is a German songwriter, comedian, satirist, and author of literary fiction from Berlin. Most of his early works were a series of poetry and playing with the “Die Gesellschaft” punk band. Since 2003, he has been a regular performer on a variety of stages in Berlin. He has also been very active performing poetry slams and at Kabarett and literary events around Germany. He was the founder of the “Leseduen,” literally lecture stage, a public literary event, and since 2005 he toured with his team all over Berlin. However, he is better known for his radio broadcast “Neues vom Kanguru” that he hosts for a radio station in Potsdam. He often talks about the same themes that he writes about in his debut novel “The Kangaroo Chronicles.” In his later years, he wrote very popular novels that tell of his life with a roommate he calls communist kangaroo. He went to Freie Universität Berlin where he studied Philosophy and Dramatics. He is a two-time champion of the German Poetry Slam and has won a ton of awards for his standup and poetry routines. He has also won the German Audiobook Award, the German Cabaret Award while his Kangaroo Trilogies have gone on to become bestsellers in his native Germany. “Quality Land” his 2020 novel was called the best science fiction novel by jury and won the German Science Fiction Award in 2018.