Birgit Kreipe

Birgit Kreipe at the Lyrikmarkt Berlin 2016

Birgit Kreipe (* 1964 in Hildesheim ) is a German poet .

life and work

Birgit Kreipe grew up in the countryside near Hanover. She completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and worked in this profession, later she studied psychology and modern German literature in Marburg , Vienna and Göttingen . She has published poems in numerous literary magazines (e.g. Poet , Ostragehege , Randnummer , Lichtungen , besides , Akzente ), in the FAZ and in several anthologies and was a participant in various poetry festivals, among others. a. at the Poetry Festival Berlin . Her poems are characterized by idiosyncratic and memorable images. Peter Geist compares the visual power of her language with that of Sarah Kirsch . Nico Bleutge writes about her volume of poetry SOMA in the NZZ : "The pictures sometimes slide so closely on top of each other that the reader can only watch in amazement as the children in front of their 'magic television'."

Birgit Kreipe lives and works in Berlin.

Awards

• 2018 finalist at the Merano Poetry Prize
• 2017 author residence of the Slovenia Book Days in Ljubljana and Kranj , Slovenia
• 2016 literary scholarship from the Berlin Senate
• 2014 Poetry Prize Munich
• 2014 Irseer Pegasus

Single track

• SOMA . Poems, kookbooks , Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-937445-81-6
• beauty farm . Poems, Verlagshaus Berlin , Berlin 2012, 2nd edition 2018. ISBN 978-3-940249-51-7
• when I say wind you are gone. Poems . Verlag im Proberaum 3, Klingenberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-941296-19-0

Contributions to anthologies

• Steffen Popp (Ed.): SPITZEN. Poems. Fanbook. Hall of Fame . Suhrkamp , Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-518-12719-3
• Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All of this, Majesty, is yours. Poetry in the Anthropocene . kookbooks , Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-93744-580-9
• Tom Schulz , Ron Winkler (Ed.): Venice. The Venetian dream . Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main 2014. ISBN 978-3-89561-217-6
• Ron Winkler (Ed.): Snow poems . Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-89561-215-2
• Ron Winkler (Ed.): The beauty is a distinct noise. Baltic poems . Edition Wörtersee, Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-9377-99-43-8
• Tom Bresemann (Ed.): In the holiness squeeze. New Christmas poems . Lettrétage Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-9812062-4-1

Web links

Commons : Birgit Kreipe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Birgit Kreipe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Birgit Kreipe's website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Birgit Kreipe at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and information on Birgit Kreipe's work at Literaturport
• Poems read by the author and translated into different languages on lyrikline from the Haus für Poesie Berlin
• Poems by Birgit Kreipe in the poet shop
• Poems by Birgit Kreipe at fixpoetry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Geist: "Doubt and Tar" - on the poems of Birgit Kreipes . In: Ostragehege . No. 2 , 2014, ISSN  0947-1286 , p. 70-71 .
2. ^ Nico Bleutge: Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Ponies wander through memory. In her poems, Birgit Kreipe draws memories from childhood. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 10, 2016, accessed December 26, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Munich Poetry Prize