Andreas Altmann (poet)

Andreas Altmann reads at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014 at the event Part of the Movement

Andreas Altmann (born January 4, 1963 in Hainichen ) is a German writer .

life and work

After finishing school, Andreas Altmann worked in Leipzig from 1986 and from 1990 in Berlin as a typesetter , orchestra attendant, street cleaner and assistant caretaker. From 1993 to 1996 he completed a social pedagogical degree and worked with the severely mentally handicapped. Altmann, who has been a member of the PEN Center Germany as a freelance author since 2007 , primarily writes poems that have been published in individual titles, anthologies, newspapers and literary magazines. Chansons were set to music by Jörg Kokott.

Andreas Altmann's poetry is shaped by the view of the periphery, which is rarely illuminated: “Although he has been based in Berlin for years, Altmann is not a poet of urban space. It is the small, forgotten places, the fringes of civilization, that interests this poet. ” Joachim Sartorius sums up:“ Andreas Altmann captures the impassive nature, the darkness, the farewells, and yet wants the abolition of what separates, the mixture - and finds magical images for it. "

In 2011 he gave with Axel Helbig There is another world. A poetry anthology from Saxony ( poetenladen ).

Andreas Altmann lives in Berlin .

Single track

• the villages on the shore the sea. Poems. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1996.
• form words. Poems. Kowalke, Berlin 1997.
• moving the room. Poems. Kowalke, Berlin 2001.
• Eyes of words. Poems. Rimbaud, Aachen 2004.
• the slow end of the snow. Poems. Rimbaud, Aachen 2005.
• Painting with heron. Poems. Sonnenberg, Chemnitz 2008.
• The second sea . Poems. poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2010.
• Way of viewing . Poems from 20 years. poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2012.
• The light songs of the trees lie in the grass and just seem like that . Poems. poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2014.
• Poetry album 324 . Poems. Graphic by Jürgen Höritzsch. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2016, ISBN 978-3-943708-24-0 .
• Path between changing fields . Poems. poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2018. ISBN 978-3-940691-92-7

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Christoph Buchwald , Ulrike Almut Sandig (Ed.): Yearbook of Poetry 2017 . Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3895616808 .
• Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze . German-language poetry of the present (2008–2011).
• Christoph Buchwald and Norbert Hummelt (eds.): Yearbook of Poetry (2005).
• Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present (2008).
• Ralph Grüneberger (Ed.): New poetry album . G ompany for contemporary poetry , issue 2/2009.
• Ron Winkler (Ed.): The beauty is a distinct noise. Baltic poems (2010).
• Michael Braun and Hans Thill (eds.): Song from pure nothing. German-language poetry of the 21st century (2010).

• Literary magazines: Akzente , besides , new German literature , poetry album , sense and form , noise culture , language in the technical age .

Awards

• 1997: Wolfgang Weyrauch Award of the Leonce and Lena Competition
• 1997: Christine Lavant Poetry Prize from the city of Wolfsberg
• 2004: Erwin Strittmatter Prize (Brandenburg Environmental Literature Prize)
• 2011: Dr. Manfred Annual Fair of Honor from the German Schiller Foundation
• 2012: Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2012: Literature Prize of the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art

literature

• Theo Breuer : pebbles & chestnuts. Of new poems and stories . Monograph on contemporary poetry and prose after 2000. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2008.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Altmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andreas Altmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Andreas Altmann at fixpoetry
• Short biography and information on the work of Andreas Altmann at Poetenladen
• Short biography and information on the work of Andreas Altmann at Literaturport
• Poems by Andreas Altmann on lyrikline.org (text and audio)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.poetenladen.de/kokott-altmann.htm
2. ↑ Announcement on the award of the Brandenburg Environmental Literature Prize 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Short biography on lyrikline.org