Bert Strebe

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Bert Strebe (* 1958 in Hunteburg ) is a German writer , poet and journalist .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Strebe trained at the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , became an editor at terre des hommes , Osnabrück , and later at the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ), where he worked in the Lower Saxony and local editorial offices and later in the cultural department. Since 2008 he has been working as a freelance writer and journalist.

Strebe's work, including his prose works and even some of his reports, is above all characterized by a lyrical and metaphor-rich language.

One of his poems has already been included in a collection of texts for school use, and Strebe is also mentioned as a notable poet in a history of poetry since 1945 .

His first novel, Gethsemane , tells the story of a group of seven young people who meet on a property they call "Gethsemane". Some of them die, some see each other again after many years. Interspersed with autobiographical echoes (including Nicaragua and the status of a journalist play a decisive role), the focus is on a man who is confronted with a crumbling marriage and a drug addict who has disappeared. The novel is a morally broken image of both the seventies and the present. The HAZ critic praised the couple's portrait as “great” and attested Strebe as “great linguistic skill”.

A year after Gethsemane , Strebe's volume of poems Rauhtier was published . The lyricist Caroline Hartge wrote in a review that Strebe "hereby provides noteworthy evidence that it can sometimes be an existential (also: literary) austerity that is able to produce the greatest art".

In 2012 Bert Strebe realized the project Das Haus der Sonne together with the artist Pablo Hirndorf . The idea was to combine his texts with other art forms and create something new from them. Inspired by Strebe's poems, Pablo Hirndorf designed a house as a walk-in sculpture, a space for pictures and words.

bibliography

  • 1999 Zwischenwasser , poems. Publisher Eric van der Wal , Bergen / Holland
  • 2002 Katzenlicht , poems. Publisher Eric van der Wal, Bergen / Holland
  • 2002 The Inside of Water , radio play. Deutschlandradio Berlin (Director: Harald Krewer, with Jens Harzer and others)
  • 2005 Rabenkind , play. Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück (Director: Reinhard Hinzpeter, with Neda Rahmanian and Babette Winter)
  • 2008/2009 At the edge of the moonlight , poetry and new music. CD and stage program (together with the Hamburg composer Dominique Goris)
  • 2011 Gethsemane , Roman. Stadtlichter Presse , Wenzendorf. ISBN 978-3-936271-58-4
  • 2012 A perfect woman , narrative. Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf.
  • 2012 Rauhtier , poems. Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf. ISBN 978-3-936271-65-2
  • 2013 Pacemaker , twelve stories. Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf. ISBN 978-3-936271-70-6
  • 2014 monologues with Maria , poems. Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf.
  • 2014 Rabenkind , scenic texts. Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf. ISBN 978-3-936271-74-4
  • 2018 Once upon a time - Hanoverian fairy tales , folk tales from the Hanover region, compiled and edited by Bert Strebe. Madsack media agency , Hanover.
  • 2018 From you, from me , nine poems, with two pictures by Otto Quirin . Private printing by Carl-Walter Kottnik, Hamburg.

Prices

  • 1999 Journalist Prize Die Spitze Feder (3rd Prize) for uncovering a corruption case in Hanover
  • 2002 work grant as part of the literature funding of the state of Lower Saxony
  • 2009 Catholic media award for the radio feature Das Fenster zum Himmel was open to the near-death experiences of the conductor George Alexander Albrecht ( NDRkultur )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Patzer: German poetry after 1945 to the present , Volume 2. An Anthology Lichtenau (AOL) 2001
  2. ^ Georg Patzer: German poetry after 1945 to the present , volume 1. A description Lichtenau (AOL) 2001
  3. ^ HAZ, December 3, 2011
  4. ^ Edition Das Labor. Online magazine for art, music and poetry . Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  5. ^ Website Das Haus der Sonne . Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  6. ^ German Bishops' Conference, press release Retrieved on July 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Strive, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hunteburg