Andreas Reimann
Andreas Reimann (born November 11, 1946 in Leipzig ) is a German poet and graphic artist .
Life
Reimann was born as the son of a couple of graphic designers and the grandson of Hans Reimann . After his father's flight to West Berlin in 1953 and his mother's suicide in 1954, he was taken to a children's home. 1955 Death of his father under hitherto unexplained circumstances in West Berlin. From 1956 on he lived with his grandmother in Leipzig.
From 1963 to 1965 Reimann completed an apprenticeship as typesetter and in 1965 began studying literature at the "Johannes R. Becher" Institute for Literature in Leipzig. He was due to an unfavorable attitude towards the cultural politics of the early 1966 SED expelled . In the same year he was called up for military service in the NVA and released after attempting suicide. He then worked as a freelance writer and editor.
In the summer of 1968 he took part in the Leipzig reservoir reading . On October 1, 1968, he was arrested in connection with his protest against the smashing of the “Prague Spring” and sentenced to two years imprisonment for “dangerous agitation” . After his release on October 1, 1970, he worked as a transport worker, brewery assistant and payroll clerk. In the 1970s he published two volumes of poetry, after which he was unable to publish until 1989.
Since 1973 Reimann has worked with chanson interpreters (including Stephan Krawczyk , Detlef Hörold , Hubertus Schmidt ), the rock group Lift and various composers and is part of the Leipzig song scene and was a participant in the GDR open chanson days at Michaelsstein Monastery .
In 2015, Andreas Reimann was elected to the PEN Center Germany .
Awards
- 1997 Prize of the City of Leipzig
- 1999 scholarship from the Free State of Saxony
- 1999 Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation from 1859
- 2000 literary scholarship from the city of Leipzig
- 2005 Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau (simultaneously with Felicitas Hoppe )
- 2006 scholarship from the German Literature Fund
- 2007 Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize for ... and red wine rustles my soul south
- 2012 Rössing Prize of the Renate and Roger Rössing Foundation for "Habitable City"
- 2014 poetry scholarship "Poet in Residence" from the association "Literarisches Dresden" in Dresden-Loschwitz
- 2018 Prize of the Society for Contemporary Poetry
Works
- with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey : Small animals like to eat , children's book, Berlin 1973
- The wisdom of the meat , poems with illustrations by the author, Halle 1976
- The whole half of life , poems, Halle 1979
- Leipziger Allerlei - all kinds of Leipzig , stories (with Ulla Heise), Leipzig 1993 ISBN 3-931801-44-6
- Suns in the wood , poems, Burg Giebichenstein 1994
- The Sonettarium , poems with drawings by Frank Ruddigkeit , Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-928833-32-4
- Tatort Stadt , poems with woodcuts by Thomas M. Müller, Leipzig 1996
- From the durable Jonas , songs and ballads with illustrations by the author, Leipzig 1999
- Describe and label. From the chronicle of a Leipzig family of artists , Leipzig 1999
- The male age , poems with illustrations by the author, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-88769-172-5
- Der Olivenspiegel , poems with illustrations by the author, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-931684-89-X .
- Not Every Farewell Makes You Small (New German People's Songs By Andreas Reimann & Walter Thomas Heyn), audio CD *
- Between the Downfalls - Collected Poems , Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-936618-47-X
- Will add me to your body - love poems , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-928833-36-7
- ... and red wine rustles my soul south - Italy sonnets with drawings by Rainer Ilg, Oschersleben 2006, ISBN 3-938380-34-9
- New poems , with graphics by Akos Novaky, Peter Sylvester and Baldwin Zettl, Leipzig 2006
- The Trojan Pegasus - 150 selected poems 1957-2006, Halle 2006. ISBN 978-3-89812-411-9
- Inhabitable City - Leipzig poems with drawings by Rainer Ilg, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937799-38-4
- in: Poetry of the 20th Century: My 24 Saxon Poets , Ed. Gerhard Pötzsch , 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86189-935-8
- Graves and about them , poems, Leipzig 2010 - ISBN 978-3-937799-46-9
- The wisdom of the flesh , poetry. Volume 2 of the work edition. Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-937799-61-2
- green winter , poems. Edition Loschwitz, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816210-4-4
- Collected chansons and songs (with Jens-Uwe Günther), Weimar / Oschersleben 2016, ISBN 978-3-86289-123-8
- Poets Museum. Weimar poems with drawings by Rainer Ilg, Bucha bei Jena 2016, ISBN 978-3-943768-73-2
- Contradictions, poems 1964–66; Essay and discussion " The new sorrows of young poetry", Volume 1 of the work edition , Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-937799-77-3
- The whole half life, poems 1973–76; "The first fifty songs from the Hubertus Schmidt Collection", 1971–76, Volume 3 of the work edition, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-937799-78-0
- Poetry album 336 Andreas Reimann, poems, Wilhelmshorst 2017, GTIN 978-3-943-708-36-3
- The large sonettarium , sonnets 1975-2019, volume 5 of the work edition, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-937799-93-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Reimann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Andreas Reimann at Literaturport
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reimann, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |