Hellmuth Opitz

Hellmuth Opitz (born January 6, 1959 in Bielefeld ) is a German writer .

life and work

From 1979 to 1984 Hellmuth Opitz studied German and philosophy in Münster . He then worked as editor-in-chief for a city magazine and as a freelance journalist wrote reviews , features and interviews for well-known music magazines such as Musikexpress and Rolling Stone . Opitz has been writing poems since 1982, which are published in individual titles as well as anthologies and literary magazines. They are characterized by lacony, but also by irony. He also writes satires , glosses and essays for newspapers, magazines and radio. He is a member of the Association of German Writers and has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since May 2016 .

Hellmuth Opitz lives in Bielefeld , is married and has two children.

Used poems . Bielefeld 2004.
with Steffen Jacobs and Matthias Politycki : Women. Well Difficult . Hamburg 2005.

Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present. Düsseldorf 2008.
Christoph Buchwald (ed.): Year book of poetry . Frankfurt am Main 2007, 2011.
Shafiq Naz (Hrsg.): The German poetry calendar 2012. Every day a poem. B-Bertem 2011.
Günther Butkus , Karl Riha (ed.): The shrunken head mobile. Stories of eating and being eaten. Bielefeld 1998.
NDR culture and time (ed.): Poets on the ball. 50 new football poems. Frankfurt 2006.
Anton G. Leitner (Ed.): Words have their say. 100 poems from 10 years THE POEM. Düsseldorf 2002.
Günther Butkus (Ed.): Murder Westphalia: Criminal stories from East Westphalia-Lippe. Bielefeld 2008.
Günther Butkus (Ed.): Mord-Westfalen 2: Criminal stories from Westphalia. Bielefeld 2009.
Günther Butkus (ed.): Teuto death: 31 criminal stories. Bielefeld 2013.