Andreas H. Drescher

Andreas H. Drescher (born December 22, 1962 in Schwalbach (Saar) ) is a German author and media artist .

Life

Andreas H. (Hubertus) Drescher was born as the son of the dentist Burkhard Drescher and the practice assistant Erna Drescher in Schwalbach (Saar) . In 1977 he began with his first literary attempts, in 1983 he passed the Abitur . In 1985 he moved to Cologne . This was followed by self-training as a writer (including studies in German , politics and philosophy ). Drescher has lived as a freelance writer in Saarlouis since 2000 .

In addition to working within conventional literary genres, Drescher's work has been the fusion of literature and artificial intelligence since the mid-1990s, culminating in the AI Maldix . Since 2003 he has been developing the ABEL (Abstract Entity Language) for this project . In 2016 he founded the publishing house Edition Abel, in which he also publishes the prose that he will tell the AI ​​Maldix in book form.

Works

Standalone title

• Foreign tongues. Poetry, radio play, VS series Topicana, 2000, ISBN 3-932294-54-8
• Darwin's creation story. Hör-Roman, Bellerive-Hörverlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941621-01-5
• The return of my left arm. Stories, Edition Abel, Saarlouis 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052221-5
• Coal dog. Roman, Edition Abel, Saarlouis 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059608-7
• Complicius Complicissimus , Edition Abel, Saarlouis 2020, ISBN 978-3-9820735-0-7

Cooperations

• The second ride. Flash animations of texts from foreign tongues, cooperation with saxophonist Hartmut Oswald and the Liquid Penguin Ensemble , 2000.
• Thresch. Lyric-musical collaboration with the composer Bernd Thewes, 2006, first broadcast by SR2
• Euroscopy. Audiobook and standalone animation based on Drescher's poetic prose with re-views of the material on Europe, with re-works by the author Ulla Vigneron in French, 2007
• Bread sky. Literature installation with the French author Jean-Louis Kieffer on the occasion of the Blauer Hirschen ( Luxembourg European Capital of Culture ), 2007
• Cirrus. Poetry film in cooperation with the director Jens Jenson based on the text-dance performance Konjunktivien with the Australian dancer Jenny Atwood at the Poetry Festival Berlin , 2008
• Drums and Poetry. Spoken word poetry with the drummer Ralf Trebing on the basis of Drescher's lyric cycle XX / XY , 2010

Publications in anthologies (selection)

• SMS-Lyrik , dtv, Munich, 2002, ISBN 978-3423621243
• Where is the time , Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 978-383051-206-6
• Heimat , Reclam, Ditzingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-011099-7
• The sky of tomorrow , Reclam, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-011051-5
• Writing nomads discover Europe , Limbus, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-99039-160-0

Publications in forums and online magazines

• The golden fish
• Fixpoetry

Appreciations

• 2001: 1st Prize Digital Literature (audience) from DTV / T-online for The Second Journey
• 2007: Invitation to the International Poetry Festival Berlin
• 2011: The Maldix project was praised at the Campus Award
• 2017: Scholarship from Wiepersdorf Castle
• 2018: Funding of the novel Kohlenhund by the RAG Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas H. Drescher: The literary AI "MALDIX": Interview I, introduction. YouTube . November 14, 2011, accessed August 2, 2018.
2. ↑ Maldix on SourceForge . Retrieved August 2, 2018.
3. ^ Edition Abel. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
4. ↑ Bernd Thewes: (08) THRESCH (excerpt from chapter 3). SoundCloud . Retrieved August 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Lit. radio: Andreas H. Drescher and Ulla Vigneron: Euroscopie. SoundCloud. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
6. ↑ Andreas H. Drescher: Cirrus. YouTube. October 30, 2009, accessed August 2, 2018.
7. ↑ The golden fish. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
8. ↑ Andreas H. Drescher on fixpoetry.com. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
9. ^ Prize letter for literature digital 2001. poetry digital. October 2, 2001, accessed August 2, 2018.
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Andreas H. Drescher at Literaturport . Retrieved August 2, 2018.