Gerd Constapel

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Gerd Constapel (2006)

Gerd Constapel (born December 18, 1938 in Upgant-Schott ) is a Low German author.

life and work

Constapel grew up in Upgant-Schott, where he spoke East Frisian Platt as a child . He is a trained business economist and has worked as an industrial manager in Germany and abroad for many years. After his retirement in 1998, he began to write Low German poems that deal with the people, life and the landscape of East Frisia. Constapel writes modern poetry and advocates a pure Low German that is not falsified by High German influences. He also translates from Groningen and Dutch. He has published mainly in German and Dutch anthologies and literary magazines.

According to Snorre Björkson from the Freudenthal Society , Constapel is “currently one of the most talented Low German poets”.

Constapel is a member of the working group of East Frisian authors and in the Schrieverkring Weser-Ems . He lives in Leer-Loga .

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With his Low German poems, he won the Freudenthal Prize in 2003 for the Neje Klören series of poems and the Freudenthal Prize in 2009 for the Stoom cycle , the annual prize of the East Frisian Authors' Working Group in 1999 and 2004 and the Plattfoss writing competition in 2006 . In 2009 Wintersaga took second place in the Klaus Groth Prize . He also took second place in the 2013 Johann Friedrich Dirks writing competition with the Middsömmeravend cycle .

Fonts

  • Gerd Constapel: Olldagsland. Low German poems from 1998 to 2010 with high German translations. Diesel-Verlag, Emden 2010, ISBN 978-3-934835-07-8 .
  • Nicolas Nowack (ed.): North Sea is word sea. North Sea Poetry, an anthology. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-04522-5 (with contribution by G. Constapel).
  • Jan Glas, Tonko Ufkes (ed.): De nije oogst. 36 poems from Nedersaks. Kleine Uil, Groningen 2007, ISBN 978-90-77487-46-4 (with contribution by G. Constapel).
  • Gerd Constapel: Dit is de dag - This is the day. In: Ostfreesland 2012. Calendar for Ostfriesland. SKN Verlag, Norden 2012, p. 83.
  • Gerd Constapel: Diss Kant Neeischanz, Loga, Raakwark, Winterdaags. In: Carl-Heinz Dirks (Hrsg.): De 100 most oostfreeske flat-nozzle poems. Diesel-Verlag, Emden 2008, ISBN 978-3-934835-05-4 , pp. 107-110.
  • Gerd Constapel: Vörloop. In: Klaus-Groth-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2010 No. 5. Boyens Buchverlag, Heide / Holstein 2010, p. 108, ISSN  1868-6737 , ISBN 978-3-8042-0974-9
  • Gerd Constapel: Disse Dag, Green Card. In: Slowly het Pieterpad. Stichting Het Drentse Boek, Zuidwolde / NL 2003.
  • Gerd Constapel: All the poems of the Stoom cycle . In: Soltauer Schriften Binneboom. Volume 16, Freudenthal-Gesellschaft 2010, pp. 75–81.
  • Gerd Constapel: All poems in the Neje Klören series . In: Soltauer Schriften Binneboom. Volume 10, Freudenthal-Gesellschaft 2004, pp. 88-92.
  • Gerd Constapel: Various publications and articles in the literary magazines Diesel from Ostfriesland and Krödde from Groningen.

Audio recording

  • Gerd Constapel and Herbert Bartmann: Stoom. Low German poetry and music. (CD, 2019).

literature

  • Silke Arends-Vernholz: A poet and realist. Gerd Constapel. In: Ostfriesland-Magazin. SKN Verlag, Norden 2004, ISSN  1435-6376 , pp. 82-84.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Working group of East Frisian authors: Gerd Constapel (biography and publications), viewed January 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ Leaves of the Fehrs Guild. No. 44, 2009, p. 17 ( online ) (PDF file; 667 kB), accessed on December 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Biography in the culture database of the city of Oldenburg , accessed on December 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ Heide-Kurier dated August 12, 2009 (PDF; 6.2 MB), accessed on December 1, 2017.
  5. ^ Working group of East Frisian authors , accessed on December 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Constapel, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German author
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Upgant bulkhead