Durs Grünbein

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Durs Grünbein at Fokus Lyrik 2019

Durs Grünbein (born October 9, 1962 in Dresden ) is a German poet , essayist and translator .

Live and act

Grünbein grew up in the Hellerau district of Dresden . From 1981 to 1983 he did military service in the National People's Army . He broke off studying theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1987. He then worked as a freelancer for various magazines. After the fall of the Wall in 1989, he traveled through Europe , Southeast Asia and the United States . He was a guest of the German Departments of New York University , Dartmouth College and Villa Aurora in Los Angeles . Grünbein lives as a freelance writer in Rome .

Grünbein is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin , the German Academy for Language and Literature , the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg , the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Arts . Since 2005 he has been Professor of Poetics at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and since 2008 a member of the “Pour le mérite” order for science and the arts in Berlin.

In the 2007/2008 winter semester, Durs Grünbein was Heine visiting professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , and in 2009 he was a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In autumn 2006 he gave the Zurich poetry lectures on the topic: “Happy Ice Age. Three Cartesian Mediations ”. In the winter semester 2009/2010 he gave the Frankfurt poetics lectures on the topic: "On the value of words".

Grünbein also appears with socio-political comments. So he turned vehemently against Günter Grass ' poem What must be said , which is a "blatant historical stupidity". In the pamphlet, Grass shows his emotional blindness to the Jewish state as a survival strategy that has become a state. In February 2015, he criticized the xenophobic and Islamophobic “ Pegida ” demonstrations as a revelation of the “Dresden soul”, which, when shouting “We are the people”, knows exactly who “belongs to it and who does not”.

In his works, Durs Grünbein deals with the areas of natural science ( quantum physics , neurology ) and philosophy , but there are also travel and love poems, such as the often cited poem Après l'amour .

Grünbein is married to Eva Sichelschmidt. The couple has three children. Sichelschmidt published her first novel in 2019.

reception

Grünbein is one of the most important German-speaking poets of the present and has received several awards for his work. According to Ulrich Greiner , this captivates, in particular, through the highest level of language skills and a wealth of specialist knowledge, which makes Grünbein the “most educated poet in our language area”.

Fritz J. Raddatz, on the other hand, headed his review of Colossus in Fog "Durs Grünbein - the poetic air number" and stated "Verses without riddles, without secrets, without shocks for the reader", in which "your own self is buried under the rubble of what is read" . These "half-formed astonishing effects" are a "downright defect of his poetic architecture", since they disturb "any silence" in the instruction.

Greiner sees in such criticism the contempt for the educated bourgeoisie and the displeasure about someone who “knows more than they” appear: “Those who do not despise educational travel should confide in Grünbein [...].”

Awards

Durs Grünbein with the order "Pour le Mérite" (2014)

Works

Book page signed by Durs Grünbein from his volume of poetry Skull Base Lesson (2011)

Poetry and prose, libretti

Talk

  • Bondage. Speech in the Frauenkirche in Dresden on October 6, 2009. In: Deutschland-Archiv , Vol. 42, 2009, No. 6, pp. 983–992.

Audio book

Works in English

  • Ashes for Breakfast - Selected Poems. Selection from the following works, translated by Michael Hofmann : gray area, morning , skull base lesson , folds and falls , after the satires , declared night . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-374-53013-6 .
  • The Bars of Atlantis - Selected Essays. (Ed. By Michael Eskin). Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-374-26062-0 .
  • Descartes' Devil - Three Meditations. Translated by Anthea Bell. Upper West Side Philosophers, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-9795829-4-3 .
  • The Vocation of Poetry. Translated by Michael Eskin. Upper West Side Philosophers, New York 2011 ISBN 978-0-9795829-9-8 .
  • Mortal Diamond: Poems. Translated by Michael Eskin. Upper West Side Philosophers, New York 2013 ISBN 978-1-935830-07-8 .

Translations

literature

  • Hinrich Ahrend: "Dance between all the chairs". Poetics and poetry in the lyric and essayistic work of Durs Grünbein. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010 (= Epistemata. Würzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften: Series Literary Studies 687), ISBN 978-3-8260-4168-6 .
  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Text + Criticism : Durs Grünbein Edition Text and Criticism, 2002, ISBN 3-88377-703-X .
  • Renatus Deckert : Ruin and Poem. The destroyed Dresden in the work of Volker Braun , Heinz Czechowski and Durs Grünbein. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939888-94-9 .
  • Michael Eskin: Poetic Affairs: Celan , Grünbein, Brodsky . Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 2008, ISBN 978-0-8047-5831-4 . (English)
  • Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder , Christopher Young (Eds.): Durs Grünbein. A companion. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-022794-9 . (English)
  • Marek Gross: Break and Memory. Durs Grünbein's poetics. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11265-1 .
  • Henning Heske : Goethe and Grünbein. Essays on literature. Bernstein Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-9808198-5-X .
  • Alexander Joist: Death as the fate of the body in the work of Durs Grünbein. In: Alexander Joist: In search of the meaning of death. Interpretations of death in contemporary poetry. Matthias-Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-7867-2521-7 .
  • Sonja Klein: “Because everything, everything is lost time.” Fragments and memories in the work of Durs Grünbein. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89528-678-0 .
  • Albert Meier: Ritratti dell'artista da (non più) giovane tantalo. La prosa autobiografica di Durs Grünbein . In: Daniele Vecchiato (Ed.): Versi per dopodomani. Percorsi di lettura nell'opera di Durs Grünbein (= Il quadrifoglio tedesco, No. 39). Sesto San Giovanni 2019, pp. 121-136 (translated by Daniela Nelva). See the German version: academia.edu
  • Alexander Müller: The poem as an engram. Memoria and Imaginatio in Durs Grünbein's Poetics. Igel Verlag, Oldenburg 2004, ISBN 3-89621-197-8 (also Diss. Marburg 2004).
  • Annette Simonis: Durs Grünbein in the zoo. Traces of a scattered bestiary in the poet's oeuvre. In: dies .: The kaleidoscope of animals. On the return of the bestiary in the modern and present. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8498-1207-2 , pp. 124–151.
  • Ron Winkler : Poetry between the big city and the cerebrum. Approaches to the lyrical work of Durs Grünbein. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-8300-0211-4 .
  • Florian Berg : The poem and nothing. About anthropology and history in Durs Grünbein's work. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3526-5 .
  • Claus Zittel: Diving in yesterday's snow. Grünbein's Descartes Readings and their Consequences. In: Laura Auteri, Alfred Noe, Hans-Gert Roloff (eds.): The importance of reception literature for education and culture in the early modern period (1400–1750) IV (= Yearbook for International German Studies. Series A, Vol. 126). Bern 2016, pp. 493-521.
  • Short biography for:  Grünbein, Durs . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Durs Grünbein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Durs Grünbein (1995) | Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rome: FAZ of October 22, 2013, Suhrkamp on the way to the AG: The Believer Drama of Charlottenburg. , accessed on May 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ Durs Grünbein:He's a preacher with a mallet. Faz online on April 11, 2011.
  4. ↑ Durs Grünbein: Dresden: The people, this monster. In: zeit.de . February 18, 2015, accessed June 13, 2015 .
  5. ^ Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Durs Grünbein. Text + criticism , 2002, ISBN 3-88377-703-X . P. 92.
  6. ↑ Durs Grünbein - "We read to each other" . In: Cicero Online . ( cicero.de [accessed on February 25, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Eva Sichelschmidt , at Randomhouse.
  8. ↑ a b Ulrich Greiner: Durs Grünbein: The faithful dog of the earth. In: zeit.de . April 13, 2014, accessed June 13, 2015 .
  9. ^ Fritz J. Raddatz: Durs Grünbein - the poetic air number. In: welt.de . August 21, 2012, accessed June 13, 2015 .
  10. ^ FAZ: Herbert Prize for Grünbein . In: FAZ (Ed.): FAZ . No. 76 . FAZ, Frankfurt March 30, 2020, p. 11 .
  11. ↑ Gregor Dotzauer : The earth in the exterior mirror. Durs Grünbein: "Cyrano or The Return from the Moon". Review in Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 15, 2014, accessed April 22, 2014.
  12. ↑ Claudia Kramatschek: Our own animal nature . Review of September 29, 2017 in Deutschlandfunk Kultur , accessed on January 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Grünbein, Durs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, essayist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , GDR