Erich Pfefferlen

Erich Pfefferlen after a reading in 2013

Erich Pfefferlen (born April 17, 1952 in Nördlingen ) is a German writer , editor, poet and educator.

life and work

Erich Pfefferlen spent his childhood and youth in Nördlingen. He studied German, history and social studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and passed the 1st and 2nd state exams. During this time he also began his work as a poet with first publications, especially in magazines, anthologies , documentaries, radio and television. After marriage and the birth of his first child, after completing his legal traineeship in Regensburg, he started teaching at the A. B. von Stetten Institute in Augsburg . At the same time he began to intensify his literary activity, writing essays, short prose and especially poetry. As a pedagogue he was appointed literary officer at Bavarian schools in 1993. From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the “Creativity in Class” working group at the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research ISB.

In 2005 and 2011 he was appointed as Director of Studies iK, each for five years, to the evaluation committee for teachers in the probationary period at church schools of the Evangelical School Foundation in Bavaria. During this time, his publications as an author were joined by those of an editor. He has been a member of VS since 2005; from 2007 on he was (re) elected as press spokesman for the regional group Schwaben-Allgäu for the Association of German Writers (VS). Since 1985 he has lived in Horgau / Augsburg; He is married and has two daughters.

Awards

• 1995 Nomination by the BA for the International Poetry Prize “In the footsteps of Ada Negri” in Milan
• 1995 finalist (7th place) at the international poetry competition "Sannio", Benevento / Italy
• 1996 Fedor Malchow Poetry Prize of the State of Schleswig-Holstein (together with Bodo Heimann )
• 1996 Horgau Culture Prize
• 1999 Prize at the poetry competition of the 28th German Ev. Kirchentag, Stuttgart
• 2003/04 and 2004/05 scholarship from the BMW-Kuenheim Foundation for the Swabian pilot project “Tatfunk” of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
• 2005 Prize at the literature competition of the 30th German. Ev. Kirchentag , Hanover
• 2007 Teacher Award from the Federal Agency for Civic Education
• 2007 admission to the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis
• 2008 Literary Working Group Dorsten awards Erich Pfefferlen honorary membership
• 2017 Honored by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art

Publications

Volumes of poetry

• Eyes glances. Nördlingen 1989, ISBN 3-923645-99-6 .
• Thistle bulbs. Fulda 1992, ISBN 3-88611-105-9 .
• Open the cage. Lütjenburg 1995, ISBN 3-87998-723-8 .
• Like a parachute. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1998, ISBN 3-927654-62-0 .
• dislocated. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2004, ISBN 3-936373-11-6 .
• Nobody should freeze. Vechta-Langförden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86685-090-3 .
• Listened to the silence. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2012, ISBN 978-3-936373-87-5 .
• Night black with moon foam. Vechta 2016, ISBN 978-3-86685-607-3

prose

• Silence sails silently. Vechta-Langförden 2013, ISBN 978-3-86685-449-9 .

Editions (selection)

• The literary Venus. Associate Editor. Witten 2003, ISBN 3-932801-45-8 .
• Water and salt: poetry of the source of life. Dorsten 2004, ISBN 3-932801-46-6 .
• Shooting stars of poetry. Associate Editor. Witten 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810832-6-2 .
• Lit.Zs. Headwind. (Co-editor 1991 to 1997 and from 2010), Augsburg

Anthologies (selection)

• The Ries in the heart of Europe (1982)
• Luggage 2, prose (1992)
• Malachites and Emeralds (1993)
• Poesia i cultura (1993)
• Pleiade (1993)
• Spikes in Mind (1994)
• Antologia di poesie italo-tedesche (1995)
• Inside texts (1995)
• Poetry 90/94 (1995)
• Yearbook, Poetry (1995)
• Zeitbilder (1995)
• The moon has risen (1995)
• Paloma, prose (1996)
• Literary correspondence, essays (1996)
• Ideal pictures or the journey into the year 2000 (1996)
• Pick the Stars, Sultanim (1996)
• No Loud Province (1996)
• Turn of the century (1996)
• Places, Views (1997)
• The big book of little poems (1998)
• The parodied Goethe (1998)
• Gottesklang: Das kleine Liederheft (1999)
• 10 Years Fall of the Wall (1999)
• Poetry 2000 (1999)
• Again you hit the hook (2001)
• Autumn (2001)
• Versfluss (2002)
• Wartime / Peace Time (2002)
• Yearbook Poetry 2002 (2002)
• Dialogues (2003)
• Time word. German-language poetry of the present (2003)
• Odyssey: Poetry 2000 S (2004)
• Augsburg Peace Seeds (2004)
• Der Schwabenspiegel, yearbook for literature, language and games, ed. from the archive for literature from Swabia, language and games, 4-5 (2004)
• If Your Child Asks You Tomorrow (2005)
• Encounters (2006)
• Traumvogel, children's book (2010)
• Winter trip (2011)
• Network five (2012), six (2013), seven (2014), eight (2015), nine (2016), eleven (2018), twelve (2019), thirteen (2020)
• Words speak, words are silent (2013)
• Zilpzalp, poetry calendar (2019)
• Fantastic Swabia, Stories (2019)
• Flow of Identities (2020)

Literature about Erich Pfefferlen

• Rudolf Lehner, In: The Gymnasium in Bavaria. 10/93
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Saur, Munich / Leipzig, since 2004/05.
• Claudia M. Pecher, In: Literature in Bavaria. Volume 23, No. 90, Munich, 2007.
• Ronald Hummel, In: Augsburger Allgemeine , No. 121, May 27, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Pfefferlen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• Erich Pfefferlen in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )