Ulf Stolterfoht
Ulf Stolterfoht (born June 8, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer .
Life
After completing community service , Ulf Stolterfoht studied German and general linguistics in Bochum and Tübingen . Stolterfoht writes poetry and essays critical of language , which have been published in numerous anthologies (including Der Große Conrady ) and literary magazines. He made his debut in 1998 with the volume of poetry technical I-IX at Urs Engeler Editor .
In 2005, Stolterfoht's broadcast of Gertrude Stein's Winning His Way appeared . From 2008 to 2009 and in the summer semester 2013 he was visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Since 2014 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .
In 2015 Ulf Stolterfoht founded the Brüterich Press publishing house , in which he publishes books by authors whose texts he feels connected to under the motto “Difficult books at a very high price”.
Ulf Stolterfoht lives in Berlin.
style
Stolterfoht's poetry works with fragments from different areas of knowledge and language layers of German. He ventures into foreign text worlds and incorporates their linguistic material, characters, melodies and moods into his work. His techniques include montage , compilation and satirical . His poetry is characterized by artistry and technical mastery. It offers “bulky, yet enjoyable food, melodically light, of great rhythmic beauty”.
honors and awards
- 2016 Prize of the Literature Houses
- 2015 London grant from the German Literature Fund
- 2011 Heimrad Bäcker Prize
- 2009 Erlangen literary prize for poetry as translation together with Barbara Köhler
- 2008 Peter Huchel Prize
- 2007 Villa Massimo scholarship
- 2006 Alfred Gruber Prize at the Meran Poetry Prize
- 2005 Anna Seghers Prize
- 2004 Heimrad Bäcker sponsorship award
- 2003 Ernst Meister sponsorship award
- 2001 Christine Lavant Prize
- 2000 Prize for Literature from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
Publications
Single track
- technical languages I-IX . Poems. 128 pages, bound with a dust jacket. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel, Weil am Rhein and Vienna 2005. [Hardcover, slightly improved new edition of the first edition from 1998]
- technical languages X-XVIII . Poems. 128 pages, bound with a dust jacket. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel / Weil am Rhein 2008. [Hardcover, slightly improved new edition of the first edition from 2002]
- technical languages XIX-XXVII . Poems. 128 pages, bound with a dust jacket. Urs Engeler Editor, Vienna and Basel / Weil am Rhein 2005.
- treatise on the decline . Poems. With credits by Ulf Stolterfoht and a biographical note. 48 pages, paperback. Publishing house Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2005.
- wood smoke over heslach . Poem. 128 pages, bound with a dust jacket. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel / Weil am Rhein 2007.
- technical languages XXVIII-XXXVI . Poems. 128 pages, bound with a dust jacket. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel / Weil am Rhein 2009.
- the nomentano manifest . Poems. With a comment by Ulf Stolterfoht and a bibliographical note. 56 pages, paperback. Publishing house Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2009.
- " Frauen-Liebe und Leben ", in: Chamisso / Scho / Stolterfoht, Frauen-Liebe und Leben . 46 pages, paperback. hochroth Verlag, Perleberg and Berlin 2010, pp. 31–46. [Also includes: Adelbert von Chamisso, "Frauen-Liebe und Leben. Ein Lieder-Cyklus" (1830), pp. 1–16, and Sabine Scho, "They still exist, the good feelings. Advertisement for a romantic passion" , Pp. 17–30]
- Wet nurse conversations . Edited by Urs Engeler. 82 pages, paperback. roughbooks, Berlin and Holderbank (Solothurn) 2010.
- handset heslach . Sources, documents and materials. Edited by Florian Höllerer. 96 pages, paperback. roughbooks, Berlin, Rettenegg, Stuttgart and Solothurn 2011.
- The German poet badge . [A fictional feature.] 56 pages, paperback. Reinecke & Voß, Leipzig 2012. [The text is based on the radio play of the same name, the first broadcast of which took place on April 21, 2009 on SWR.]
- against the weasel . Poems. With an afterword by Ulf Stolterfoht and a bibliographical note. 52 pages, paperback. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2013, ISBN 978-3-941126-36-7 .
- new jerusalem . Poem. Kookbooks Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937445-60-1
- Wurlitzer Jukebox Lyric FL - about music, euphoria and difficult poems. Munich speeches on poetry. Lyrik Kabinett Foundation , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-938776-40-7 .
- technical languages XXXVII – XLV . Poems. Kookbooks Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-937445-93-9 .
Publication (selection)
- cowboy lyric. roughbooks (2009)
- Yearbook of Poetry 2008, with Christoph Buchwald (2008)
- Between the lines. Journal for poems and their poetics, issue 21 (2003)
Translations
- JH Prynne, Poems / Gedichte (together with Hans Thill ). Verlag Das Wunderhorn (2007)
- Gertrude Stein, Winning His Way / how to win your art. Urs Engeler Editor (2005)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulf Stolterfoht in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ulf Stolterfoht at Verlag Urs Engeler Editor
- Publishing house Peter Engstler
- hochroth publishing house
- BRUETERICH TM (Ulf Stolterfoht's blog) ( Memento from September 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulf Stolterfoht . Literature report author lexicon, accessed on May 14, 2019.
- ↑ Former staff. German Literature Institute, accessed on May 14, 2019.
- ↑ Member page of Ulf Stolterfoht. German Academy for Language and Poetry, accessed on May 14, 2019.
- ^ A b Marie Luise Knott: We need each other! Der Tagesspiegel, May 20, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Waiting for the finite thought . The daily newspaper (taz), January 22, 2005.
- ↑ Review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 8, 2015, quoted on buecher.de, accessed on April 3, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolterfoht, Ulf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |