Axel Kutsch

Axel Kutsch (born May 16, 1945 in Bad Salzungen ) is a German writer and editor .

Life

Axel Kutsch spent childhood and youth in Stolberg / Rhld. and Aachen . After a two-year editorial traineeship, he worked as an editor for various daily newspapers from 1971 to 1999 . Since 1983 he has been publishing volumes of poetry and editing anthologies of contemporary poetry in the German-speaking world, most recently Versnetze_zwölf ( Verlag Ralf Liebe 2019). In the nineties he wrote reviews of volumes of poetry for Das Gedicht magazine .

Kutsch's poems were broadcast on radio ( BR , DW , DLF , NDR , SWR , WDR ), in German-language literary magazines, school books and anthologies (Artemis & Winkler / Patmos , Aufbau-Verlag , Beltz & Gelberg , dtv , DVA , Luchterhand , Reclam , Schöningh , S. Fischer ) as well as in Australia, Belgium, France, Canada, Romania, the USA and Iran.

After the early poetry that was critical of the time and society, Axel Kutsch's poems became increasingly playful and ironic in the 1990s: "He relies on that cheerful, but no less profound lack of seriousness, cultivated by illustrious predecessors such as Christian Morgenstern or Joachim Ringelnatz ." The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger sums up: "Behind all the jokes, metamorphoses, tricks or even puns lies the thought that poems are something made [...] Kutsch as a fellow who lightly turns the joke on its feet."

Axel Kutsch lives in Bergheim / Erft.

Works (selection)

Volumes of poetry

Versflug (2015).
Silent Night only until eight (2006).
Ikarus drives a bus (2005).
Purgatory, seven flame - with graphics by Karl-Friedrich Hacker (2005).
Broken word - with illustrations by Franz Peters (1999).
Risk of collapse (1997).
Bitten Song (1994).
Staccato (1992).
In the rooms of the night - with photographs by Rüdiger Axel Westphal (1989).
From a German Village and Other Poems (1986).

Anthologies

Hiltrud Herbst and Anton G. Leitner (eds.), Weltpost ins nichtall. Poets remember August Stramm (2015).
Jürgen Nendza and Hajo Steinert (eds.), Stadtlandfluss (2014).
Ali Ghazanfari (Ed.), German poetry from the beginning to the present, German / Persian (2014).
Rainer Stolz and Udo Wenzel (eds.), Haiku hier und heute (2012).
Anton G. Leitner (Ed.), Poems for Contemporaries. Poetry from 50 Years (2011).
Christoph Buchwald and Uljana Wolf (eds.), Yearbook of Poetry (2009).
Karl Otto Conrady (ed.), The Great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present (2008).
Christoph Buchwald and Ulf Stolterfoht (eds.), Yearbook of Poetry (2008).
Shafiq Naz (Ed.), The German Poetry Calendar. A poem every day (2008–2013).
Karl Otto Conrady (Ed.), In Höchst Heights (2005).
Theo Breuer (Ed.), NordWestSüdOst. Poems by Contemporaries (2003).
Hugo Dittberner (Ed.): A short while. Poems in a few lines (2003).

Release

Network . German-language poetry of the present (2008–2019).
Thought of Germany. Poetry on the state of the country (2009).
Forensics. Justice and crime poems - with Amir Shaheen - (2005).
Time. Word (2003).
Cities. Verses. German-language urban poetry of the present (2002).
Flash light. German-language short poetry from 1100 years (2001).
The parodied Goethe (1999).
Tear the crosses out of the earth! Poetry in the Times of the Revolution of 1848 (1998).
Turn of the century. German-language poems of the present (1996).
The moon has risen. German-language poems with the moon from the baroque to the present (1995).
Jagged mind. Poetry of the 90s (1994).
Word Networks I – III (1989–91).
Location details (1987).
No time for poetry? (1983).

literature

Killy Literature Lexicon: Volume 7 (Kräm - Marp), de Gruyter, Berlin 2010.
Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, Saur, Munich 2012.
Guido Ernst: Poems about poems and nothing between the lines? On German Metalyric of the 21st Century. Poems by Kurt Drawert , Nora-Eugenie Gomringer and Axel Kutsch. In: Gert Reifarth (Ed.): Das Innerste von Außen, pp. 30–44, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007.
Theo Breuer: The poet and editor Axel Kutsch. In: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000, Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005.
The Cologne Authors' Lexicon 1750–2000, second volume 1900–2000, Emons, Cologne 2002.
Franz Norbert Mennemeier : Rhenish poetry of the 90s. In: Neues Rheinland, Cologne 2000.
Theo Breuer: Axel Kutsch - Places. Views and danger of collapse. In: Without point & comma. Poetry in the 90s, Wolkenstein, Cologne 1999.
Jochen Arlt : Be present on the doorstep. In: Kölner Stadtrechner II, 192 pages, Horlemann, Unkel 1994.
Literature Atlas NRW, Volksblatt-Verlag, Cologne 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Leaflet , Freeboard , The Poem , Matrix , Shell Heap , Signum and v. a.
↑ Odeur de feu / Smell of Fire . 17 poètes d'Allemagne / 17 German poets, translated into French and edited by Rüdiger Fischer, Écrits des Forges, Québec (Canada) 2008.
↑ Ringelnatz- grandchildren parodies modern poets - Axel Kutsch wrote satirical poems, Ostsee-Zeitung of January 15, 2000 about broken words .
↑ Always on the heels of verse - volumes of poetry by Amir Shaheen , Axel Kutsch, Ulrike Draesner , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 30, 2005 about Ikarus drives omnibus .

personal data
SURNAME	Kutsch, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	bad Salzungen

[1] Leaflet , Freeboard , The Poem , Matrix , Shell Heap , Signum and v. a.

[2] Odeur de feu / Smell of Fire . 17 poètes d'Allemagne / 17 German poets, translated into French and edited by Rüdiger Fischer, Écrits des Forges, Québec (Canada) 2008.

[3] Ringelnatz- grandchildren parodies modern poets - Axel Kutsch wrote satirical poems, Ostsee-Zeitung of January 15, 2000 about broken words .

[4] Always on the heels of verse - volumes of poetry by Amir Shaheen , Axel Kutsch, Ulrike Draesner , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 30, 2005 about Ikarus drives omnibus .