Barbara Maria Kloos
Barbara Maria Kloos (born September 7, 1958 in Darmstadt ) is a German poet .
Life
Kloos grew up in Seeheim and attended the Schuldorf Bergstrasse comprehensive school until he graduated from high school . From 1978 on, she studied modern German literature , medieval studies and theater studies at the University of Munich , where she graduated with a master's degree in 1990 with a thesis on Christine Lavant . In Munich she was also the co-founder and editor of the literary magazine federlese , together with Astrid Arz, Peter Hirsch and Hans-Christian Rohr. From 1980 she made literary and journalistic contributions in magazines, anthologies and on the radio (mainly BR ). From 1988 to 1990 she was the literary editor of the magazine Litfass , which was published by Piper Verlag at the time, and for StadtMagazin München .
From 1990 to 1993 she worked as a lecturer in New York, since 1993 she has lived as a freelance writer in Cologne. In 1995/1996, together with the musicians Christina Fuchs and Dorothée Hahne, she developed the text and sound performance Mouth Pieces , with which they performed in several German cities.
Appreciations
- 1983 Award for the Leonce and Lena Prize of the City of Darmstadt
- 1983 Artist exchange of the Franco-German Youth Office in Pontivy (Brittany)
- 1984 First prize in the poetry competition of the Bavarian Radio
- 1984 Foreign Ministry travel grant to New York
- 1986 residency grant from the Berlin Senate at the Berlin Literary Colloquium
- 1989 Tukan Prize of the City of Munich
- 1989 Kodak Photo Book Prize (together with Martin Rosswog ) for the volume “Menschenbilder. Portrait photographs ”. Preface: Barbara Maria Kloos
- 1995 Literature & Jazz scholarship (together with the musicians Christina Fuchs and Dorothée Hahne ) from the literature bureau NRW-Ruhrgebiet
- 1996 selected for the author reader of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1996 residency grant in the artist village Schöppingen
- 2000 Residence grant from the Danish National Bank in Copenhagen (together with Joachim Krug)
- 2004 work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2008 Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
Works
- (with Astrid Arz) Open your mouth, close your eyes. Eating between lust and addiction. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-15076-X .
- Solo. Poems. Piper, Munich 1986.
- (with Birgit Kempker and Kristin T. Schnider ) 61 ° above the horizon. Edited by Dietger Pforte . LCB editions, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-920392-98-1 .
- The sex of the angels. Erotic poems. With 4 photographs by Ro Willaschek. edition fundamental, Cologne 1989.
- The days were like balloons. Poems. Schneekluth, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7951-1211-7 .
- Venus probe. Poems. Poetry edition 2000, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86520-145-8 .
- Fossil infants. Poems. Poetenladen, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-940691-85-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Barbara Maria Kloos in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Barbara Maria Kloos at Literaturport
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZDB -ID 557232-0
- ↑ ZDB -ID 8118-8
- ↑ Christine Lavant Poetry Prize for Barbara Maria Kloos . Poetenladen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kloos, Barbara Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |