Anja Kampmann

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Anja Kampmann at the Literary March (2015)

Anja Kampmann (born October 31, 1983 in Hamburg ) is a German writer.

life and work

Anja Kampmann grew up in Lüneburg and studied at the University of Hamburg and at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . She had her first success at literary competitions in 2006, where she was invited as a finalist to the Open Mike in Berlin . Since then, her poetry and prose have received numerous awards and grants. She published in magazines (e.g. Akzente , Neue Rundschau , Poetenladen ) and anthologies (e.g. Jahrbuch der Lyrik , Lyrik von Jetzt 3). In 2010 her long poem Stechlicht was performed by the Washington Dance Ensemble . Since 2011 she has worked a. a. for Deutschlandfunk , NZZ and other media. Since 2011 she has also been working on a doctorate on musicality and silence in the work of Samuel Beckett . She has been invited to take part in international literature festivals several times. She performed in Karachi in 2011 and in Minsk in 2013 , as well as at the Babelsprech Events in 2013 and 2015 in Lana and Bern . In Leipzig, together with the forma association, she founded the Tectonics series of events for poetry and new music. Several works by Anja Kampmann have been set to music by contemporary composers. She also works with visual artists; texts by her appeared in the catalog for the exhibition Standing Stream by Frank Berendt (2015). In spring 2016, her poetry debut Samples from Stone and Light was published in the Edition Lyrik Kabinett by Carl Hanser Verlag.

With the novel How high the water rise , Anja Kampmann was invited as a finalist for the Alfred Döblin Prize 2017. The novel was published in 2018 by Carl Hanser Verlag and in the same year received a nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the “ Fiction ” category . In March 2018, the novel took third place on the SWR best list , was discussed in the feature pages, made it onto the longlist of the German Book Prize and received the Mara Cassens Prize 2018 for debut novels and the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (sponsorship prize). Kampmann lives in Leipzig.

Publications

Single track

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

  • Accents . 2/2018: okay. Edited by John Burnside, Jo Lendle. Carl Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25916-4 .
  • Yearbook of Poetry 2018. Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-681-5 .
  • Modern poetry in translation. No. 2, 2017: A Blossom shroud. Translated by Anne Posten. London 2017, ISBN 978-1-910485-18-7 .
  • Poesia. Magazine. April 2017, Anne Carson. Milan
  • Jan Wagner, Tristan Marquardt (ed.): Impossible love. The art of minstrel in new transmissions. Carl Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25654-5 .
  • Peter Braun, Martin Straub (ed.): Inside. Approaches to Franz Fühmann. Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1971-4 .
  • Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene. kookbooks, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9 .
  • Michael Braun , Kathrin Dittmer and Martin Rector (eds.): Gegenstrophe, sheets for poetry 7. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-86525-532-7 .
  • Nowa Sol. Poems. In: Wasp's Nest . No. 169, Vienna 2015.
  • Lyric from Now 3: Babelsprech. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015.
  • Yearbook of Poetry 2015 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2015.
  • Diffusion of light. In: Akzente 5/2014. Munich 2014.
  • Fritz Deppert , Christian Döring , Hanne F. Juritz (eds.): Shining Legato in minor. Literary March 19th Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2015.
  • Contemporary poetry 46th Feldkircher Poetry Prize 2014, Edition Art Science, St. Wolfgang 2014.
  • Jsem 'I'll tell her. In: Risk Analysis. The best stories from the MDR literary competition 2013. Poetenladen, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-940691-45-3 .
  • A pulse beyond the horizon. In: Words without Borders. New York 2012.

Settings

  • Poems from the Grenzland cycle were set to music by Kai Johannes Polzhofer, her poem Experiment über das Meer was arranged for baritone solo by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Anja Kampmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anja Kampmann. In: lyrikline.org , accessed December 17, 2019 (with poems).
  2. ^ Frank Milautzcki : Literarischer March 2015. fixpoetry, March 22, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Martina Weber: ES GIBT / MIR EINEN ORT - Leonce and Lena Competition 2015. Poetenladen, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ People / Anja Kampmann. (No longer available online.) In: forma-leipzig.de. May 13, 2013, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Frank Berendt (Ed.): Standing current . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-86678-706-3 .
  6. ↑ Anja Kampmann: How high the waters rise - fiction. (No longer available online.) Leipziger Messe, February 8, 2018, archived from the original on February 22, 2018 ; accessed on February 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendung/lesenswert/bestenliste-literaturtalk-kritiker/-/id=659892/did=21057738/nid=659892/sbczhg/index.html
  8. ↑ Helmut Böttiger : The magnifying glass of longing. Excessive perception, somnambulistic trance and concentrated presence: In her grandiose debut novel “How high the water rise”, Anja Kampmann tells of the odyssey of a modern migrant worker. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 29, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .  -
    Paul Jandl : Only the pigeons find their way back in Anja Kampmann's debut novel. How we move out and never find our way back: this is what the young writer Anja Kampmann tells in a touchingly unsentimental novel. In: NZZ . January 31, 2018, accessed on March 6, 2019. -
    Tobias Lehmkuhl : A very precise blade. Anja Kampmann's remarkable debut novel “How high the waters rise”. In: The time . No. 9/2018, February 27, 2018. -
    Ulrich Rüdenauer : Book of the week from February 26, 2018 . Anja Kampmann: How high the water rises. In: SWR2 . February 23, 2018, accessed on September 15, 2019. -
    Miriam Zeh: Deep drilling in one's own longing. Anja Kampmann: "How high the waters rise". In: Deutschlandfunk . Book market series , February 6, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2019. -
    Tino Dallmann: Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. A book that smells of sea water and men's sweat. Review. (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. MDR , 2018, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 17, 2019 .  -
    Salzburger Nachrichten : https://www.sn.at/kultur/literatur/loefflers-lektuere-was-bleibt-einem-bohrarbeiter-24771553 .
  9. ↑ Marcel Beyer receives Lessing Prize. The lyricist, narrator, essayist and editor Marcel Beyer receives the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony 2019, endowed with 13,000 euros. The two sponsorship prizes (5,500 euros each) go to Anja Kampmann and Bettina Wilpert. In: Börsenblatt . October 1, 2018, accessed March 6, 2019.
  10. ↑ Fish thieves. Project details. In: kplusw.de, accessed on June 12, 2018.
  11. ^ Il numero di Aprile. In: poesia.it, accessed on June 12, 2018 (“Anja Kampmann, Prove di pietra e di luce, a cura di Nino Muzzi”).
  12. ↑ A pulse beyond the horizon. In: wordswithoutborders.org. October 2012, accessed June 5, 2018.
  13. ↑ Literary March 2015: Leonce and Lena Prize goes to David Krause - Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship awards for Anja Kampmann and Özlem Özgül Dündar. In: darmstadtNews.de. March 22, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2015 (Source: Press Office of the City of Science Darmstadt).
  14. ↑ Prize winners from 2005 to today. (No longer available online.) Literary March, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 26, 2015 (awardees until 2015).
  15. ^ Alfred Döblin Prize 2017. Akademie der Künste , May 21, 2017, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Culture Prize in the Literature category: Anja Kampmann and Clemens Mädge are honored by the district. Report from the district of Lüneburg. In: Focus . September 18, 2018, accessed March 6, 2019.
  17. ↑ New town clerk for Bergen-Enkheim: Anja Kampmann becomes the 46th holder of the office , Börsenblatt dated May 29, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019
  18. ↑ George Grodensky: Anja Kampmann becomes town clerk for Bergen. Frankfurter Rundschau, August 29, 2019, accessed on August 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kampmann, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg