Geraldine Gutiérrez de Wienken

Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken (* 1966 in Ciudad Guayana , Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan poet, curator and literary translator.

Life

Gutiérrez-Wienken studied dentistry at the Universidad Central de Venezuela as well as German philology and sociology at the University of Heidelberg , where she received her doctorate with a thesis on "The wave as a symbol in art and literature". She has appeared as a poet, translator and publisher as well as editor and presenter of the radio show Poesía at the Bermuda radio in Mannheim .

Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken has lived and worked in Heidelberg since the late 1990s after spending time in South America and the USA .

Works (selection)

Spanish language lyrics

Espantando Elefantes . La Liebre Libre, Maracay 1994
Con alma de cine . Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Real 2008
Castañas de confianza . Ed. Eclepsidra, Caracas 2013

German-language editions and translations

The wave . Magic of movement. Art from five centuries (an exhibition of the Kurpfälzisches Museum of the City of Heidelberg from October 5, 2008 to January 11, 2009), Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2008 ISBN 978-3-88423-316-0
Cherry blossom dreams . Japan's influence on modern art (An exhibition by the Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg from October 7, 2012 to February 10, 2013), Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2012 ISBN 978-3-88423-423-5
Shipwrecks and idylls . People, nature and the ephemeral, flowing world in East and West. The symposium, ed. v. Hans-Günther Schwarz, Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken u. a., Iudicium, Munich 2014
Rafael Cadenas : Lamentations in the luggage . Poems (together with Marcus Roloff ), parasitenpresse , Cologne 2018 ISBN 978-3-947676-18-7
Adalber Salas Hernández: The future wears out through use . Poems (together with Marcus Roloff), hochroth Verlag , Heidelberg 2019 ISBN 978-3-903182-44-8

Awards

XI. Premio de Poesia Excmo. del Ayto. de Ciudad Real, 2008
Merck Scholarship Darmstadt, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME	Wienken, Geraldine Gutiérrez de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Venezuelan poet, curator and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ciudad Guayana , Venezuela