Alexander Gumz
Alexander Gumz (born December 19, 1974 in Berlin ) is a German poet , editor , translator and organizer.
Life
Gumz studied German and philosophy . He is the editor of the text sound label KOOK and organizer for the Berlin poetry festival . He is also co-founder of the LAN Three Days of Young Literature and Music Festival in Berlin and of HAM.LIT. Long night of young German-language literature and music in Hamburg .
Workshops and seminars for creative writing etc. a. at the Free University of Berlin, at the Wannsee Forum, for the lyrix competition of Deutschlandradio and at the Institute for Literary Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Hildesheim. Co-editor of several international anthologies, a. a. with young Danish and Polish literature.
Gumz's own poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Jahrbuch der Lyrik (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018), Die Zeit, die Horen, Akzente, Neue Rundschau, EDIT, Waspennest, Das Magazin, Das Gedicht , marginal number, intendenzen, STILL.
Selected poems have been translated into English, Polish, Persian and Slovak. He himself has copied poems from Polish and English and published them in Germany.
His first collection of poems ausrück mit modellen was published by kookbooks in Germany in 2011 , and his second, longer volume barbarians expecting was also published there in 2018.
Honors and prizes
- 2001: Vienna Workshop Prize for Poetry
- 2003: Finalist in the Leonce and Lena Prize 2003 and 2009
- 2007: Scholarship holder of the Homini Urbanis program in the Villa Decius (Willa Decjusza) in Wola Justowska in Krakow
- 2009: Finalist at the open mike of the Berlin literature workshop
- 2010: Working grant for literature from the Berlin Senate
- 2012: Clemens Brentano Prize for Literature
- 2013: Scholarship from the German Academy Rome in Casa Baldi, Olevano, Italy, part of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- 2016: Scholarship holder of the Villa Aurora Los Angeles, USA
- 2018: Scholarship for literature from the Berlin Senate
Publications
- moving out with models: poems , with an afterword by Antje Rávic Strubel ; designed by Andreas Töpfer. Kookbooks, Lyrik series, Volume 40, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937445-44-1 .
- 45sec. 8 poems with photos by Michael Mieß . SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95566-004-8 .
- Conspiracy cartoons . New York Flarf poems . parasite press, Cologne 2015.
- barbarians expect: poems ; designed by Andreas Töpfer. Kookbooks, Lyrik Series, Volume 54, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-937445-86-1 .
Web links
- Author biography
- Biography and poems at Fixpoetry
- Poem CONTAINER FROM SURROUNDINGS on fabmuc.de
- Poem SCHATTENWERFER on fabmuc.de
- early poems on poetenladen.de
- Review on ZEIT.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Songs der Gegenwart in FAZ on February 14, 2012, page 30
- ↑ Working grants awarded to Berlin authors in 2018. January 15, 2018, accessed January 22, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gumz, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th December 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |