Christian Lehnert

Christian Lehnert (born May 20, 1969 in Dresden ) is a German writer who became known for his poetry .

Life

Christian Lehnert is the son of a medical couple. He refused military service in the GDR and was a construction soldier . He studied religious studies , Protestant theology and oriental studies and is known to be a connoisseur of the Christian , Jewish and Muslim religions . He completed part of his studies in Jerusalem . After longer stays in Israel and northern Spain , he was pastor in Müglitztal near Dresden and from 2008 to 2012 head of studies for theology and culture at the Evangelical Academy of Saxony-Anhalt in Wittenberg. Since May 2012 he has been the scientific director of the Liturgy Institute of the VELKD at the University of Leipzig. He wrote the libretto for Hans Werner Henze's concert opera Phaedra , which premiered in 2007 at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden .

In the jury's reasoning for the 2012 Hölty Prize , his poetry was characterized with the following words:

“Christian Lehnert is a special solitaire among contemporary German-speaking poets, because his poems radiate dignity and beauty that have become rare. Christian Lehnert persistently explores where the origin of being lies. This question runs through all of his works and gives them an extraordinarily strong poetic power. [...] Aside from any purposeful thinking, he dares to go down the aisle into an original 'void without a name' and, with what he has uncovered, extends the great legacy of the poetic and philosophical tradition. "

Christian Lehnert has been a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts since 2013 and of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz since 2014 . Lehnert is married to the baroque violinist Friederike Lehnert. The couple have three children - a son and two daughters.

Works

Books

• The chained singer. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-12028-X .
• The rise of the eyes. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-12101-4 .
• Finisterre. Poems. Edition Korrespondenzen, book with CD, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-902113-18-9 .
• I will see, be silent and hear. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-12369-6 .
• Hans Werner Henze : Phaedra. A diary. In collaboration with Christian Lehnert. Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8031-1247-7 .
• On moraines. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41954-0 .
• Breath coming up. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42273-1 .
• Corinthian chunks. An essay on Paul. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42369-1 .
• Drafts. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42469-8 .
• The god in a nut. Flying leaves of cult and prayer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42586-2 .
• Cherubian dust. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42819-1 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2018092612562589512597 (104 pages)

Libretti

• Phaedra. Music: Hans Werner Henze, premier : Berlin, Frankfurt / M., Brussels, Vienna 2007.
• Behind the wall. Music: Samir Odeh Tamimi, premiere: Berlin 2010.
• Paul. The creature's anxious waiting. Music: Thomas Jennefelt , WP: Berlin 2011.
• To the wind. Music: Hans Werner Henze, premiere: Leipzig 2012.
• From the noise of the world or The Revelation of Thomas Müntzer . Music: Sven Helbig , WP: Weimar 2014.
• According to Markus. Passion. Music: Steffen Schleiermacher, WP: Oslo 2016.
• In a desert country with no way. Music: Saad Thamir, WP: Berlin (for the laying of the foundation stone of the House of One ) 2019.

Editions

• Because we don't know what to pray ... About the art of public prayer (= impulses for liturgy and worship. Volume 1). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-374-03756-8 .
• Martin Luther : table speeches. Selected and commented by Christian Lehnert. With ten pictures by Michael Triegel (= Insel-Bücherei . Volume 1421). Insel, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-19421-7 .
• Christian Lehnert, Manfred Schnelle : The healing power of pure gestures. Conversations about liturgical presence. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04680-5 .
• Prayers of humanity. Selected, explained and with an afterword by Christian Lehnert. With pictures by Michael Triegel (= Insel-Bücherei. Volume 1470). Insel, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-19470-5 .

Prizes and awards

• 1995: Sponsorship award for the Leonce and Lena Prize of the City of Darmstadt
• 1998: Dresden Poetry Prize
• 1999: Hermann Lenz grant
• 2001: BDI sponsorship award
• 2003: Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
• 2003: Sponsorship award for the Berlin Art Prize
• 2005: Sponsorship award for the Hugo Ball Prize of the city of Pirmasens
• 2006: Märkisches scholarship for literature
• 2012: Hölty Prize for Poetry from the City of Hanover for the complete work
• 2016: Eichendorff Literature Prize
• 2016: Honorary doctorate from the Augustana Theological University in Neuendettelsau
• 2017: Writer in Residence, St Andrews University
• 2018: German Prize for Nature Writing (together with Sabine Scho )

literature

• Georg Langenhorst : Updates of mystical poetry . The poets Christian Lehnert and Andreas Knapp. In: Spirit and Life . Journal of Christian Spirituality. tape 88 , no. 3 , June 15, 2015, p. 294–306 ( Geist-und-leben.de [PDF; 96 kB ; accessed on January 21, 2020] rubric reflections ).
• Michael Braun : In the sound vault of mysticism . The poems of Christian Lehnert. In: LCB (Hrsg.): Language in the technical age . Issue No. 167 . Berlin 2016, p. 278–281 ( spritz.de ( memento of March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on January 21, 2020]).
• Thomas Ribi: God is just an empty word . What you can't talk about, you really have to talk about, believes the poet Christian Lehnert - precisely because you can only fail. In: NZZ . September 2, 2016 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 21, 2020]).
• Wolfgang Vorländer: "Christian Faith in the 21st Century". Intellectual honesty, withdrawal of projections, openness to transcendence: steps towards a modern mysticism . In grateful memory of Jörg Zink ( November 22, 1922 - September 9, 2016 ) (=  way of life - learning and thinking workshop ). Nümbrecht November 5, 2016, p. 2, 5, 7–8 ( vorlaender-lebensweise.de [PDF; 492 kB ; accessed on January 21, 2020]).
• Ilka Scheidgen: Visiting Christian Lehnert and Patrick Roth . TWENTYSIX, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7407-2902-8 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-20170413613 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Lehnert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Lehnert at Suhrkamp Verlag
• Georg Langenhorst : Keeping the syllable God empty at the price of understanding. Christian Lehnert. (PDF; 21 kB) In: theologie-und-literatur.de, May 18, 2011, accessed on January 21, 2020.
• Poetry and liturgy - “Where your own language fails”. Christian Lehnert in conversation with Andreas Main. In: Deutschlandfunk . January 20, 2020(audio [ MP3; 23:08 min. ] And writing). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ilka Scheidgen: Visiting Christian Lehnert and Patrick Roth. Norderstedt 2017, p. 31.
2. ^ Albert von Schirnding : Christian Lehnert. In: to debate. Topics of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria. Vol. 48 (2018), Issue 3, ISSN  0179-6658 , pp. 23-24, here p. 24.
3. ^ Christian Eger: Christian Lehnert leaves Wittenberg. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . June 7, 2012.
4. ↑ Christian Lehnert receives the Hölty Prize for Poetry. In: suhrkamp.de, April 17, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2020.
5. ↑ Member entry by Christian Lehnert at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 27, 2017.
6. ^ Ilka Scheidgen: Visiting Christian Lehnert and Patrick Roth. Norderstedt 2017, p. 25.
7. ↑ Christoph Gellner: Doing nothing: prayer and liturgy burst the rule of purpose and use. Christoph Gellner presents the inspiring search movements of the writer, poet and theologian Christian Lehnert: “The God in a Nut”. In: feinschwarz.net, June 21, 2017, accessed on January 21, 2020.
8. ↑ Sabine Scho and Christian Lehnert received awards. In: Börsenblatt . July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018.