Rainer Malkowski
Rainer Malkowski (born December 26, 1939 in Berlin ; † September 1, 2003 in Brannenburg ) was a German poet , above all a lyric poet .
Life
Malkowski grew up in Berlin-Tempelhof, attended the Askanische Oberschule there and initially worked for Berlin newspaper publishers. Malkowski was managing director of an advertising agency until 1972, after which he went public as a poet.
Malkowski managed to establish himself as a poet with his first volume of poetry. With a laconic tone, he created poems in which nature plays a leading role and which have a great affinity for the new subjectivity . Above all, it was about observing and the ascertaining awareness of observing.
Malkowski was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Free Academy Mannheim. Since 2006, the Rainer Malkowski Prize has been awarded by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts on behalf of the Rainer Malkowski Foundation .
Awards
- 1976: Bavarian Art Prize
- 1977: Prize for the Hermann Hesse Prize
- 1977: Sponsorship award from the city of Karlsruhe
- 1979: Leonce and Lena Prize
- 1979: Villa Massimo grant
- 1985: Writer in residence at Oberlin College , Ohio
- 1989: Märkisches scholarship for literature
- 1999: Joseph Breitbach Prize
Works
- What a morning. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
- Invitation to the outdoors. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977.
- A piece of the puzzle. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
- Ed .: The island book at midnight. (Anthology). Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
- To guest. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
- Ed .: The Island Book of Consolations. (Anthology). Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
- Whatever happens. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
- Ed .: Of virtues and vices. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
- Poems. A selection. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
- The sea rises. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
- Ed .: From the sea, from rivers and lakes. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
- A day for impressionists and other poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
- Hunger and thirst. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
- In the dark you get drunk faster, back-of-the-head stories. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2000.
- The origin of the watch. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2004 ( posthumously ).
- Post-poetry: Poor Heinrich. Poem by Hartmann von Aue . Carl Hanser-Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2005 (posthumous).
- The poems. With an afterword by Nico Bleutge . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009 (posthumous summary of all poems).
- Correspondence
- Hermann Lenz - Rainer Malkowski: As if we were walking together for a while. Correspondence 1991–1998. Edited by Renate von Doemming. Ulrich Keicher Publishing House, Warmbronn 2007.
literature
- Matthias Kußmann (Ed.): Rainer Malkowski - at the desk. Bibliography and selected texts. Keicher, Warmbronn around 2004, ISBN 3-932843-73-8 .
- Peter Horst Neumann : About four poems by Rainer Malkowski. For the first award of the Rainer Malkowski Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts: Yearbook 20. 2006, Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0199-3 , pp. 296-302.
- A piece of the puzzle. Contributions to the work of the poet Rainer Malkowski . Edited by Waldemar Fromm and Holger Pils. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3032-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Malkowski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rainer Malkowski in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
- Short biography and reviews of works by Rainer Malkowski at perlentaucher.de
- http://www.rainer-malkowski.de/bio2.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malkowski, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, especially lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 2003 |
| Place of death | Brannenburg |