Hermann Jan Ooster

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Hermann Jan Ooster (2014)

Hermann Jan Ooster (born May 2, 1958 in Huisberden near Kleve) is a German poet, artist and publisher.

Life

Hermann Jan Ooster attended the Franciscan monastery boarding school St. Antonius Bardel (Bentheim) from 1968 to 1974. From 1977 to 1980 he did an apprenticeship as a stone mason and sculptor in Dinslaken. Afterwards desertion to West Berlin, worked there first as a stonemason, then among other things as an advertising copywriter and nurse; since 1993 again as a stonemason and stone sculptor.

Together with the musician and painter Kerl Fieser and the civil engineer and philosopher Eckhart Triebel , Ooster founded the artist group Bauphilosophen in 1993 . Radio broadcasts, group and solo exhibitions, readings, and short films ( One finger on the trigger , 1994) followed. Since 2008 he made annual trips to Georgia with Fieser. Ooster has been editor of Zweifel magazine since 2017 . He lives in Berlin.

Work and style

Ooster has been publishing poems in various media since 1987, primarily at Karin Kramer Verlag .

Ooster's writing is tied to a reflection on social existence. Topics of his writing are dealing with ideology / religion / nature and working in stone. The publisher Karin Kramer wrote about the volume of poetry The world is a museum of unintentional catastrophes : “Here we find this precise poetry from the ... under the doubt and again Ooster gives his account of the current state of the excessiveization his unmistakable driving rhythm in the wake-up room reality . Many of the poems from his work on stone have been wrested from the author, who is a stone mason and sculptor by profession. Granite and the concentrated work on this brittle material are the inspiration he needs to be able to write. The stone becomes the medium that speaks to us from its millions of years old grammar that has become unintentional . They are, as he says, unconcerned crashes from the waiting loop . Here the clouds escort the helicopters to their crash site . "

Individual poems by Hermann Jan Ooster have been translated into Czech and Georgian.

Quiqueg Publishing House

In 2014, Hermann Jan Ooster founded Quiqueg Verlag , which sees itself in the line of succession and tradition of Karin Kramer Verlag . Since 2016, the building philosophers have been awarding the Karin Kramer Prize for resistant literature, endowed with one thousand euros, every two years in memory of the publishers Karin and Bernd Kramer who died in 2014 . The first prize winner was Bert Papenfuß .

Awards

  • 2011: Chosen as the German poet for the European poetry festival Dny poezie a vína / Evropa jedna báseň of the publishing house Větrné Mlýny (Brno) in Valtice / Czech Republic

Publications

  • Human from earth / under the oxygen tent. Two long poems. Rabensohn Verlag, Berlin 1987.
  • Erotic command statements. Written conversations with Eckhart Triebel about God and his world. IKS Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928701-00-2 .
  • with Eckhart Triebel: Civilizero. Written conversations about the world soul. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87956-238-5 .
  • At the pole of inaccessibility. Poems. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-87956-304-7 .
  • The world is a museum of unintentional disasters , poems. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87956-370-8 .
  • with guy Fieser and Eckhart Triebel: Small lexicon of building philosophy. Quiqueg Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945874-01-1 .
  • El Dorado, One Way, Two Tirades. Quiqueg Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945874-03-5 .

in anthologies

  • Dny poezie a vína. Ed .: Petr Minařík and Pavel Řehořík. Větrné Mlýny, Brno 2009, ISBN 978-80-86907-81-9 .
  • Pirate trip for seven loads of anagrams. Epidemic of the Arts, Berlin 2015.
  • Fifty thousand strokes. Black Book of Poetry. Ed .: Katja Horn, Kai Pohl, Clemens Schittko and Kristin Schulz. Distillery Press, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-941330-40-5 .

As editor

  • Bernd Kramer: The inn for the last Yeti. A philosophical travelogue. Quiqueg Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945874-07-3 .

Exhibitions

Ooster's works in stone, drawings, collages and objects were shown in the following exhibitions:

  • 2006: Building Philosophers. One Week Gallery, Berlin (with Kerl Fieser and Eckhart Triebel)
  • 2006: Trévolution. Galerie PremArt, Berlin (with Kerl Fieser and Eckhart Triebel)
  • 2008 stone on stone. Solo exhibition. PremArt Gallery, Berlin.
  • 2009 Building Philosophers². Galerie PremArt, Berlin (with guy Fieser)
  • 2012 Sakartvelo. In the land of the sun woman. Galerie PremArt, Berlin (with guy Fieser)
  • 2014 Tyche's recovery room. Solo exhibition. Twitter machine, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gallery Look Line - Hermann January Ooster. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ karin-kramer-verlag.de
  3. ^ The daily newspaper (taz), March 1, 1991
  4. ↑ Evropa jedna báseň: Evropa jedna báseň: Hermann Jan Ooster - Česká televize In: ceskatelevize.cz , accessed on January 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ooster, Hermann Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Huisberden