Michael Speier

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Michael Speier (* 1950 in Renchen , Baden), actually Hans-Michael Speier , is a German author , translator, literary scholar , poet and editor.

Life

Michael Speier grew up in Berlin, where he also lives. He studied in Berlin at the Free University of Berlin , in Heidelberg, Paris and Chicago and received his doctorate in 1979 with a literary thesis on Jean Paul . He is the founder and editor of the literary magazine "Park" and the Paul Celan Yearbook .

After receiving his doctorate, he taught at universities in Germany and the USA and at the Leipzig Institute for Literature , DLL. Since 1997 he has been Adjunct Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati . Speier translated contemporary poetry from English, French and Italian, he published poetry anthologies, for example in the Reclam publishing house , and published nine of his own volumes of poetry. He is represented with his poetry in over 50 anthologies and took a. a. participated in international poetry festivals in Medellín, Belgrade, Rosario / Argentina, Zurich, Malmö, Florence, Smederewo, Luxembourg, Novi Sad and Berlin.

He is a member of the New Society for Literature and in the PEN Center Germany .

Awards and grants

Publications (selection)

Literary publications
  • Read book 136, poems (with graphics by Ulrich Werner), Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2015
  • Home / City / Studio. Poems. Foreword Michael Braun , linocuts by Hans Wap, with a composition by Wolfgang Seierl. Aphaia, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-926677-84-6
  • Ed .: Berlin, you are the city. Poem anthology. Reclam, Ditzingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-15-020233-3
  • Danube genes. Poems, German and Serbian. Meridian, Smederewo 2008 ISBN 978-86-84201-58-6
  • world / space / travel. Poems, drawings by Xago , foreword by Ulrike Draesner . Aphaia, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-926677-63-1
  • (w) localities. Reading book, 92. Selection of poems. Oil pastel illustrations by Christoph Meckel . Aphaia, Berlin 2005
  • Urezi na krhotinama. Selection of works 1995–2005, Serbian. Vsvetovi, Novi Sad 2005 ISBN 86-7047-465-4
  • Desert paths. Poems. Drawings Anna Holldorf. Ars amelia Verlag, Berlin 2004
  • More from the game. Poemas. Selection of poems, Spanish. Medellín 2001
  • Read along, 30th poems. Graphics by Christa von Baum, Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 1998
  • Body cuts. Poems. Agora Verlag, Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-87008-127-9
  • Ed .: Berlin with your cheeky fires. Lyric anthology. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998 ISBN 3-15-009640-5
  • The meticulousness of tenderness. Poems. Vacat-Verlag, Potsdam 1995 ISBN 3-930752-01-8
  • Ice drift. Poems. Drawings C. v. Tree. Gallery at Bismarckplatz, Krefeld 1986
  • Ed .: On Skin. Anthology, Schering AG, Berlin 1983
  • Poems. Literary series `83, Volume 1, Edition AGA, Berlin 1983
  • En un lieu toujours autre. (Poems, French-German), Edition Quipu, Paris 1983
  • Hardly any watches. Poems; Drawings C. v. Baum, Galerie am Bismarckplatz, Krefeld 1981
  • Dream foam. Poems, Verlag Friedrich Nolte, Berlin 1977
  • Ed .: Park - magazine for new literature. No. 1 - 65, Berlin 1976 - 2012 f. ISSN  0944-0917
Scientific publications
  • as editor: Paul Celan , interpretations . Poems. Reclam, Ditzingen 2002 ISBN 3-15-017518-6
  • as publisher, co-translator: Martin Heidegger : Japanische Gesamtausgabe, Vol. 50: 1. Nietzsche's Metaphysics, 2. Introduction to Philosophy, Thought and Poetry. Sobunsha Verlag, Tokyo 2000 ISBN 4-423-19632-8 , C 3310
  • Poetry of the metropolis. Berlin poetry from the early days to the present in the mirror of its anthologies. With a selection bibliography of Berlin poetry. Colloquium, Berlin 1990 ISBN 3767807475
  • Edited with Klaus Berger : Fritz Paepcke : Living in translation. Translation and text comparison. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1986 ISBN 3878082819
  • The poetry of Jean Paul in German symbolism. RG Fischer, Frankfurt 1979 ISBN 978-3883230740
  • as publisher: Celan Yearbook , Volumes 1 - 9. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 1987 - 2007 ISBN 3825312518
  • Turn around in the picture, 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Andreas Klimt (Red.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2000/2001 , Volume 2, p. 1053, KG Saur Verlag , Munich - Leipzig 2001.

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personal data
SURNAME Speier, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speier, Hans-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Renchen