F. Starik

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F. Starik at a reading at the LesArt.Festival in "Taranta Babu" in Dortmund, 2010

F. Starik , also Frank Starik , (born Frank von der Möhlen on July 1, 1958 in Apeldoorn ; died on March 16, 2018 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch poet and artist.

Life

Frank von der Möhlen alias F. Starik studied photography and mixed media at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten . He self-published his first poems. After working as a photographer and as a singer in the Willem Kloos Groep , Starik wrote more and more poetry and founded the "Lonely Burial" in Amsterdam - an initiative of poets who write poems for the dead for lonely dead people and recite them at their burial. This idea, originally from Groningen , was taken up in other Dutch and Flemish cities. The project is documented in an anthology edited by Starik, which was also published in German in 2016 and contains prose and poetry by other authors as well as poems by F. Starik.

In 2009 F. Starik received the Amsterdam Prize for Art together with two other laureates . His popularity grew when he was nominated for "Amsterdammer van het jaar" for 2009 by the newspaper Het Parool . On May 19, 2010, he was named the fourth " urban poet of Amsterdam" to succeed Mustafa Stitou .

For the 7th Dortmund Poetry Day at the LesArt.Festival 2010, Gregor Seferens translated eight poems (including three sonnets ) by Starik, which have been published by Wintertuin in Nijmegen .

F. Starik died of heart failure on March 16, 2018 .

“Ever since Eenzame Uitvaart started in Amsterdam - and later also in The Hague and Rotterdam - Starik has been a coordinator with a great deal of responsibility. He organized the poets for the solitary burials, wrote poetry himself, selected suitable pieces of music and attended almost every solitary burial. He wrote a report for the website of each solitary funeral.

In his own distinctive way, F. Starik was the face of the Eenzame Uitvaart , at home and abroad. We are very grateful to him for that. We will miss him. "

- Stichting De Eenzame Uitvaart

Works

  • Mot, of de neerslag van de twijfel . Poems. Self-published, 1974.
  • Nepvuur . Poems. In de Knipscheer, Haarlem 1987.
  • Mijn Leven as a museum . Epistle novel. In de Knipscheer, Haarlem 1993.
  • Nieuwe Vleugel . Poems. (Ties to the novel Mijn Leven Als Museum ). Voetnoot, Amsterdam 1995.
  • Simple goal . Poems (with CD and exhibition). In de Knipscheer, Haarlem 2002.
  • De grote vacantie . Poems (with CD and exhibition). In de Knipscheer, Haarlem 2003.
  • Rode Vlam + De Verdwijnkunstenaar . Two volumes of poetry in one volume. Vassallucci, Amsterdam 2004.
  • Songloed . Poems. Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2007.
  • De gastspeler . Novel. Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2009.
  • Victoria . Poems. Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2010.
  • Poems from the time as a city poet in Amsterdam in: Z! de Amsterdamse straatkrant No. 3/2012, pp. 15–73 (with photos by Bianca Sistermans ).
  • Moeder doen . Novel. Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2013.
  • State . Poems. Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2015.

... in anthologies etc.

  • Maximum . Works by 11 Dutch and Flemish poets, selected and introduced by Arthur Lava. With photos by Frank Starik. Haarlem, In de Knipscheer, 1988.
  • Poet van deze tijd. Veertig jaar Nederlandse ('50 –'89) poëzie uit Noord en Zuid . Ghent, Poëziecentrum, 1990
  • Gerrit Komrij (ed.): De Nederlandse poëzie van de negentiende en twintigste eeuw in duizend en enige poems . Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1996
  • Rainer Maria Rilke : Nieuwe Gedichten ( New poems . Translated and explained by Peter Verstegen . With an afterword by F. Starik). Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam 2010

(For participation in other anthologies, see nederlandsepoezie.org )

Editing

  • De eenzame uitvaart. Hoe Dichters eenzame doden op hun laatste daughter vergezelle (The lonely burial. How poets accompany lonely people on their last walk). Prose and poems (with CD). Amsterdam, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2005.
  • How different? (Who else?). Poetry anthology. Tobi Vroegh, [Amsterdam] 2007.
  • Een steek diep. Schetsen van lost levens (One engraving deep. Sketches of lost lives). Amsterdam, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2011.

... in German translation

  • F. Starik and Maarten Inghels: The lonely burial. Stories and poems about forgotten lives . Selected and translated from Dutch by Stefan Wieczorek in collaboration with Carina Becker. Vienna, Edition Korrespondenzen , 2016.

Web links

Commons : Frank Starik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the Gerrit Rietveld Academy see Dutch Wikipedia nl: Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Gerrit Rietveld .
  2. ↑ "Wintertuin Literair Productiehuis" see Dutch Wikipedia: nl: Wintertuin (productiehuis)
  3. ↑ Dichter en schrijver F. Starik overleden op 59-jarige leeftijd . de Volkskrant , March 17, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ website of the foundation De Eenzame Uitvaart , German by Matthias Knoll
  5. ↑ Animation on the website of F. Starik
personal data
SURNAME Starik, F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starik, Frank; Möhlen, Frank von der (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch poet and artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Apeldoorn
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2018
Place of death Amsterdam