Christoph Wenzel
Christoph Wenzel (born May 4, 1979 in Hamm ) is a German writer and editor .
life and work
Wenzel studied German and English at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate there. Wenzel, who works as an editor, university employee and freelance writer , primarily writes poems that have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines . He made his debut in 2005 with the volume of poems zeit aus der Karte ( Rimbaud Verlag ), followed in 2010 by the band Tagebrüche at Yedermann Verlag and in 2012 the title weg vom fenster appeared in Edition Haus Nottbeck . and in 2015 the volume of poetry lidschluss in the edition Korrespondenzen . Together with Daniel Ketteler , he has been publishing the literary magazine [SIC] since 2005 and has been running the [SIC] literary publisher since 2011 . In 2013, Wenzel was awarded the Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship . "Because of his decisive and courageous work on himself, which has repeatedly and continues to be critical of his own writing," said Enno Stahl for the jury .
Christoph Wenzel lives in Aachen .
Volumes of poetry
- Lidschluss , Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902951-15-1
- away from the window , Vorsatz Verlag Edition Haus Nottbeck, Oelde / Dortmund 2012, ISBN 978-3943270037
- Tagebrüche , Yedermann, Riemerling 2010, ISBN 978-3935269407
- time from the map , Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2005, ISBN 978-3890866338
Editions
- Polder poetry. Young poetry from Flanders and the Netherlands together with Stefan Wieczorek (2016)
- Westphalia, nothing else? An anthology together with Adrian Kasnitz (2012)
- [SIC] - magazine for literature together with Daniel Ketteler (since 2005)
Anthologies and literary journals (selection)
- Christoph Buchwald , Ulrike Almut Sandig (Eds.): Yearbook of Poetry 2017 , Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3895616808
- Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3937445809 .
- Axel Kutsch (ed.), Versnetze _drei. German-language poetry of the present (2010)
- Christoph Buchwald and Uljana Wolf (eds.): Yearbook of Poetry (2009)
- Shafiq Naz (ed.), The German Poetry Calendar 2010 (2009)
- Ron Winkler (ed.): New book. New Young Poetry (2008)
- Björn Kuhligk and Jan Wagner (eds.): Poetry from now two (2008)
- Theo Breuer (ed.), No rush. Poems in Edition YE (2008)
- Literature magazines (selection): Edit , Neue Rundschau , Bella tiste , Das Gedicht , fiction , poet , intendenzen, mare , louder nobody , Signum
Awards
- 2007: Working grant from the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2008: Foreign scholarship from the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2009: Finalist in the Leonce and Lena Prize
- 2010: Working grant from the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Foundation
- 2011: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2011: Postpoetry Poetry Prize
- 2012: Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize
- 2012: GWK sponsorship award from the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work V. (GWK) in the literature section
- 2013: Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship from the City of Cologne
- 2014: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
Web links
- Short biography and information on the work of Christoph Wenzel at Literaturport
- Short biography and information on the work of Christoph Wenzel at Poetenladen
- Literature by and about Christoph Wenzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reading by Christoph Wenzel for the stop'n'read portal of the Museum of Westphalian Literature, Haus Nottbeck
- Theo Breuer in Macondo on the volume of poems Zeit aus der Karte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publications of the Literature Museum: Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck. Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck, accessed on August 20, 2014 .
- ^ SIC - literary publisher: publishing team. [SIC] - Literaturverlag, accessed on August 20, 2014 .
- ^ City of Cologne Cultural Funding Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship 2013 , accessed on October 16, 2013
- ↑ Minister Schäfer awards the 2014 North Rhine-Westphalia sponsorship award to 19 young artists. (No longer available online.) Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, November 26, 2014, archived from the original on February 23, 2015 ; accessed on December 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Theo Breuer, Daniel Ketteler: Time from the card. Poems by Christoph Wenzel (2005, Rimbaud). (No longer available online.) Www.lyrikwelt.de, March 19, 2012, archived from the original on March 12, 2016 ; accessed on December 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Wenzel, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th May 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamm |