Beate Tröger (literary critic)

Beate Tröger (* 1973 in Selb ) is a German literary critic , presenter and juror .

life and work

Beate Tröger studied German , English and theater , film and television studies in Erlangen and Berlin and completed her studies at the Free University of Berlin with a master's thesis on Paul Celan's Georg Büchner Prize speech The Meridian with Marlies Janz .

She gained journalistic experience at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Berliner Zeitung and at Der Neue Tag . She writes articles for Friday , the Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte , the literature journal Baden-Württemberg , the Deutschlandfunk , the SR , the SWR and the WDR .

Beate Tröger is a member of the editorial board of the Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte. As a juror, she and Björn Jager and Alf Mentzer select the winners of the Wiesbaden poetry prize Orphil . In 2018 she was one of the jurors for the preliminary rounds of the Munich Poetry Prize and the GWK Literature Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work ; from 2019 she will be a member of the juries for the Gertrud Kolmar Prize and the Peter Huchel Prize . In 2020 she was appointed to the jury of the SWR best list .

Tröger's literary work also includes essays and encyclopedic entries on Nico Bleutge , Paul Celan, Ted Hughes , Peter Kurzck , Friederike Mayröcker and Olga Martynova .

Tröger lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

Awards

• 2008: Reading scholarship at the Graz features magazine Schreibkraft

Publications (selection)

• Nico Bleutge. Lexicon article. In: Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature (KLG). 11/2015, Munich 2015.
• The world stage sways. The Venice Biennale hardly provided any answers to questions about the future of architecture. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte . Issue 11/2014, Berlin 2013 ( frankfurter-hefte.de [PDF; 382 kB; a review of the Venice Architecture Biennale]).
• Stories about exploding espresso pots. Comedy with Peter Kurzck. In: Christian Riedel (Hrsg.): Text + criticism . Issue 199: Peter Kurzck. Munich 2013.
• Patrick Süskind “The Perfume”. In: Klaus-Dieter Lehmann (Ed.): My favorite book. Story (s) of a friendship. Hueber, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-19-507891-7 , pp. 112-116.
• grazer gallop. Report from a city reader. In: typist. Journal for features . No. 18, Graz 2009, pp. 38–43 ( Schreibkraft.adm.at ).
• Going to write. Peter Kurzeck's autobiographical novel project. In: Hans Richard Brittnacher , Magnus Klaue (Hrsg.): Unterwegs. On the poetics of vagabondness in the 20th century. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20085-5 , pp. 261-276.
• “You know, space is infinite”. About Paul Celan's The Word of Going Deep. In: Dorothea Lauterbach, Uwe Spörl, Uli Wunderlich (eds.): Borderline situations. Perception, meaning and design in recent literature. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-20821-9 , pp. 247-268.

Web links

• Website from Beate Tröger
• Portrait of Beate Tröger on the Bookster portal in Frankfurt
• Beate Tröger at Fixpoetry
• Literature by and about Beate Tröger in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ FAZ archive: Search. In: faz.net. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Beate Tröger. In: freitag.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} author profile Beate Tröger. In: frankfurter-hefte.de. Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte, accessed on April 29, 2019 . 
4. ↑ literaturblatt: Full-text search. In: literaturblatt.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Deutschlandfunk - search results. In: deutschlandfunk.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
6. ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk: Full text search for SR.de. In: sr.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Search. In: swr.de. Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Search WDR. In: wdr.de. April 13, 2015, accessed April 29, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Orphil Poetry Prize 2018. In: wiesbaden.de. State capital Wiesbaden, accessed on April 29, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Munich Poetry Prize 2018. 2nd preliminary round (September 28, 2018 in the Munich Literature Office). In: wiesbaden.de. Retrieved on April 29, 2019 (Beate Tröger in the evening jury). 
11. ↑ Prizes for outstanding young Westphalian artists. Awarding of the GWK Prize 2018 in Bentlage Monastery, Rheine. (DOCX; 115 kB) Press release. S. 1. In: gwk-online, October 19, 2018, accessed on July 3, 2019.
12. ↑ Gertrud Kolmar Prize. Jury. In: fixpoetry.com. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
13. ^ Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry. Members of the jury since 1984. In: peter-huchel-preis.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Poetry: Peter Huchel Prize 2019 - Pictures from the award ceremony | Literature | SWR2. In: swr.de. April 3, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 . 
15. ↑ The jury. In: SWR2. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .