Amir Shaheen

Amir Shaheen (born April 28, 1966 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German writer .

Life

Amir Shaheen is the son of an Arab father and a German mother. He grew up in the Sauerland . After he had passed his matriculation examination in 1985 and completed his military service, he studied German , English and theater studies in Stuttgart and Cologne from 1986 . In addition, he worked as a freelancer for magazines , radio and television . From 1994 Shaheen worked as a copywriter in an advertising agency in Cologne . He also worked as a freelance journalist for city magazines and periodicals in the Rhineland . Later he worked as a publishing clerk , editor and publisher in publishing houses ; u. a. In 2003, he played a major role in the benefit project "Tempo - the fastest book in the world", in which the stages of an anthology from writing the texts to the production and printing of the book to delivery to the bookstores were mastered within a day. Shaheen lives today as a co-owner and managing director of a text agency in Cologne.

Amir Shaheen has been publishing literary texts since 1989, with the focus of his work being on the poem and the essay .

Out and about on all the beaches , Weilerswist 1996
The other end of insomnia , Weilerswist 2000
No turning possibility , Weilerswist 2005
Everywhere and tomorrow , Bremen 2012
Schliesslichter , Bremen 2012
Pack up twice to the south terrace , Bremen 2013
Footnotes and paper bags. Poems 1991-2016 , Bremen 2016
Traces of residual light . Poems , Bremen 2019.
Pack up twice more to the south terrace . Extended new edition, completely unpacked and renovated, Bremen 2020