Christian Rosenau

Christian Rosenau (born February 11, 1980 in Weimar ) is a German poet and musician .

Life

Christian Rosenau studied at the Liszt University of Music in Weimar. He works as a freelance musician and music teacher . Since 2005 he has published several volumes of poetry, some of them as long poems with polyphonic text in parallel columns . Shorter texts have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies . a. in the yearbook of poetry , accents and sense and form .

Rosenau has received various prizes and author grants for his literary work . He lives and works in Weimar and Coburg .

As a musician, Rosenau has contributed to the recording of songs by the metal band Die Apokalyptischen Reiter . He is the founder of the progressive rock band Revolutions Per Minute .

Works

• the initials of the birds. Edited by the Thuringian Literary Society. Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-936305-07-2 .
• Coffee shop. Ulrich Keicher Verlag, Warmbronn 2007, ISBN 978-3-938743-42-3 .
• Winter furrows. Ulrich Keicher Verlag, Warmbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938743-73-7 .
• in case of doubt home. Poems. (Edition Muschelkalk, Volume 38) Wartburg Verlag, Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-86160-338-2 .
• Pinprick & Snake Language. Poems with six drawings by Ulrike Theusner. Edited, designed and provided with an afterword by Jens-Fietje Dwars . Edition Ornament by quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2018, ISBN 978-3-943768-88-6 .

Music to Rosenau's texts

• Falk Zenker : Miniatures. 11 moments of the moment for guitar solo. With poems by Christian Rosenau. Edition Margaux, Berlin, 2018 ( recording ).

Awards

• 2005 and 2006 prizes from the Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia
• 2007 Authors' grant from the State of Thuringia
• 2009 Hermann Lenz Scholarship
• 2010 Young Talent Prize of the Joachim Ringelnatz Prize for Poetry
• 2010 Jury Prize at the Meran Poetry Prize
• 2011 Thuringian Literature Scholarship Harald Gerlach
• 2014 Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia
• 2015 Adalbert Stifter Scholarship from the Adalbert Stifter Association

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Christian Rosenau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Rosenau at Discogs (English)
• Biography on the website of the Thuringian Literature Council
• Christian Rosenau on the website of the Literaturland Thuringia project
• Short biography and information on Christian Rosenau's work at Literaturport

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yearbook of Poetry , 2009, 2011, 2013, 2019.
2. ↑ Akzente , Volume 4, 2011.
3. ↑ Sinn und Form 2009, No. 6; 2012, issue 4 ; 2017, issue 1 ; 2018, issue 1 .
4. ↑ Discography at Discogs (see web links).
5. ↑ Silvia Fischer: Revolutions Per Minute: Why this band doesn't need a singer. Thuringia24, January 9, 2018; accessed on January 15, 2018.