Durs Grünbein
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
- 1992: Bremen Literature Prize
- 1992: Marburg Literature Prize
- 1993: Nicolas Born Prize for Poetry
- 1995: Peter Huchel Prize
- 1995: Georg Büchner Prize
- 2001: Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize
- 2004: Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
- 2005: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg
- 2006: Berlin Literature Prize
- 2008: Pour le mérite for Science and the Arts
- 2009/2010: Frankfurt Poetics Lecturer
- 2009: Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2009: Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize
- 2009: Scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- 2012: Tomas Tranströmer Prize from the Swedish city of Västerås
- 2020: International Literature Prize of the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation
Works
Poetry and prose, libretti
- Gray area in the morning. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-13330-6 .
- Skull base lesson. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40375-3 .
- Folds and falls. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40570-5 .
- The dear dead. 33 epitaphs. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40629-9 .
- From the bad side. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40616-7 .
- The Swiss correction. (Together with Brigitte Oleschinski and Peter Waterhouse ). Urs Engeler Editor, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-9520722-0-6 .
- Break the body. Speech on receipt of the Georg Büchner Prize. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-09178-6 .
- Galileo measures Dante's hell and sticks to the measure. Articles 1989–1995. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-40758-9 .
- After the satires. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41028-8 .
- Brain and thinking. Cosmos in your head. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7757-0938-5
- Journey, dead. Radio play with Ulrike Haage. Sans Soleil, Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-88030-037-8 .
- The first year. Berlin records. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-41277-9 .
- Declared night. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-41305-0 .
- Una Storia Vera. A children's album in verse. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, Insel-Bücherei 1237, ISBN 3-458-19237-9 .
- Why live without writing. Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12435-8 .
- About the snow or Descartes in Germany. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41455-0 .
- To Seneca. Postscript. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41609-X .
- All my heart. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89479-185-3 .
- Berenice. A libretto based on Edgar Allan Poe for an opera by Johannes Maria Staud . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41642-1 .
- Ancient dispositions. Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41715-0 .
- Porcelain. Poem of the fall of my city. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41722-3 .
- The misanthrope on Capri. Histories and poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-22394-1 .
- Verses for the day after tomorrow. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-41908-3 .
- Love poems. Poems. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-35098-9 .
- The Cartesian diver. Three meditations. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-26007-4 .
- Praise the typhoon. Travel diaries in haikus . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, Insel-Bücherei 1308, ISBN 978-3-458-19308-1 .
- The bars of Atlantis. An inquiry in fourteen dives. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12598-4 .
- The importance of words. Frankfurt Poetics Lecture 2009. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-06140-4 .
- Aroma. A Roman drawing book. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42167-3 .
- Colossus in the mist. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42316-5 .
- with Aris Fioretos : Avtalad tid : samtal. Swedish German. replacement, Stockholm 2012, ISBN 978-91-86437-65-7 .
- Cyrano or The Return from the Moon. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42415-5 .
- The years in the zoo. A kaleidoscope. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42491-9 .
- Spark plugs. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42753-8 .
- The pastures . Libretto for the opera by Johannes Maria Staud. Vienna 2018.
- From the dream (card index) . Essays and notations. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42753-8 .
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
- in: Poetry of the 20th Century: My 24 Saxon Poets. Edited by Gerhard Pötzsch . 2 CDs. Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86189-935-8 .
Works in English
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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 .
- published simultaneously by Faber & Faber, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-571-22849-2 .
- 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
- Stefan Themerson : Bayamus and the Theater of Semantic Poetry. Novel. Translated and with an afterword by Durs Grünbein. Reclam, Leipzig 1992 (Reclam Library Volume 1441), ISBN 3-379-01441-9 .
- Aeschylus : The Persians . Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-518-13408-6 .
- Seneca : Thyestes . Insel Verlag, 2002 ISBN 3-458-17114-2 .
- Aeschylus: Seven against Thebes . Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-518-13431-0 .
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
- Literature by and about Durs Grünbein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( Ulrich Goerdten )
- Acceptance speech for the award of the Berlin Literature Prize
- Durs Grünbein reads his own poems
- Short biography and reviews of works by Durs Grünbein at perlentaucher.de
- Durs Grünbein at Suhrkamp Verlag
Individual evidence
- ^ Durs Grünbein (1995) | Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ^ Rome: FAZ of October 22, 2013, Suhrkamp on the way to the AG: The Believer Drama of Charlottenburg. , accessed on May 23, 2014.
- ↑ Durs Grünbein:He's a preacher with a mallet. Faz online on April 11, 2011.
- ↑ Durs Grünbein: Dresden: The people, this monster. In: zeit.de . February 18, 2015, accessed June 13, 2015 .
- ^ Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Durs Grünbein. Text + criticism , 2002, ISBN 3-88377-703-X . P. 92.
- ↑ Durs Grünbein - "We read to each other" . In: Cicero Online . ( cicero.de [accessed on February 25, 2018]).
- ↑ Eva Sichelschmidt , at Randomhouse.
- ↑ a b Ulrich Greiner: Durs Grünbein: The faithful dog of the earth. In: zeit.de . April 13, 2014, accessed June 13, 2015 .
- ^ Fritz J. Raddatz: Durs Grünbein - the poetic air number. In: welt.de . August 21, 2012, accessed June 13, 2015 .
- ^ FAZ: Herbert Prize for Grünbein . In: FAZ (Ed.): FAZ . No. 76 . FAZ, Frankfurt March 30, 2020, p. 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.
- ↑ Claudia Kramatschek: Our own animal nature . Review of September 29, 2017 in Deutschlandfunk Kultur , accessed on January 17, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grünbein, Durs |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, essayist and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden , GDR |