Jan Lindner

Jan Lindner (born July 9, 1985 in Jena ) is a German writer and stage writer. He is best known for his sonnet wreaths.

Life and work

Lindner grew up as the son of a musician and a psychologist in Jena. After high school and community service , he began studying philosophy in Leipzig, which he completed in 2010.

Lindner wrote his first poem in 2003, further texts followed as part of an engagement as a singer (later keyboard player) in a band. The first publications in anthologies and magazines began in 2006. In 2007 Lindner was honored at the Jena Mind Window , a cultural competition in his hometown. In December 2009 his volume of poetry was published, Ein Soupenkasper gives off the spoon . Classical lyrical forms are used, such as the sonnet , a few bitter-angry limericks and shaking rhymes with up to seven stanzas in iambic rhythm. Thematically, the poems range from morality to satirical and funny to love codes. The sources of inspiration are Georg Heym , Georg Trakl and Paul Celan , but also Wilhelm Busch and Heinz Erhardt .

The second volume of poetry, Der Teddy with the loose googly eyes , published in 2013, contains sonnets, limericks, multi-stanza shaking rhymes and shaken mirror sonnets, a literary form developed by Lindner, as well as the two sonnet wreaths The Settlement on the River and In Front of the Black Gate . The settlement on the river describes oppressive episodes of everyday life - with war, death, misfortune and the forces of nature. In front of the black gate is about death in two forms - a boy with his teddy bear who is involved in a car accident, and an old man who is drawn to a place beyond a wall.

For the sonnet wreath in front of the black gate , Lindner was awarded 1st prize in the June June writing competition . As part of his membership in the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis Thuringia (since 2012) and Saxony (since 2015), he is committed to promoting literature in schools. Lindner has been on poetry slams all over Germany since 2014 and was able to qualify for participation in the Leipzig city championships and the Saxon championships in the same year with his sonnet wreath Die Siedlung am Fluss .

Lindner is a founding member of the Leipzig reading stages Artless bread, tweezers vs. Pincers and the letter vault poetry slam. For the soccer World Cup in 2014 he wrote sonnets for the individual games of the German national team, which resulted in a World Cup sonnet cycle with seven individual sonnets, including the world champion sonnet. Individual sonnets have appeared in the Leipziger Volkszeitung , Thüringer Allgemeine , Ostthüringer Zeitung and the Thuringian regional newspaper . The complete cycle is available free of charge on his homepage.

Lindner has been working as a spokesperson for local television since 2014 and for the radio station mephisto 97.6 since 2015 . In 2016 his first volume of short stories was published .

Works

• A soup kasper gives up the spoon . Edition PaperONE, Leipzig 2009. ISBN 978-3-941134-48-5
• The teddy with the loose googly eyes . Periplaneta Verlag , Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-943876-60-4
• Hell, get intoxicated . Periplaneta Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-943412-23-9

Awards

• 2007 and 2008: Prize winner at the Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia
• 2008: 5th place (and 2010 top ten) in the writing competition Eobanus-Hessus
• 2015: Winner of the mephisto 97.6 radio play competition

Web links

• Homepage of Jan Lindner
• Author's website at Periplaneta-Verlag
• Volly Tanner: Tanner's interview with Jan Lindner: The teddy bear with the loose googly eyes. Leipziger Internet Zeitung, January 15, 2013
• Jan Lindner in Helheim. Insider tip Leipzig, November 12, 2012
• Jan Lindner at info tv leipzig , March 3, 2016
• Collaboration with Dr. Zargota (radio play)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CampusTV Jena: Jan Lindner - Poetry Slam on November 9th, 2014 in the cash desk - CampusTV Jena. November 14, 2014, accessed May 4, 2016 . 
2. ^ Elia van Scirouvsky: Bödecker Kreis Sachsen - Jan Lindner. In: www.boedecker-sachsen.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016 . 
3. ↑ The next road-to-event is coming up: XI. Grand Slam of Saxony on August 3rd in Dresden - SLAM 2014. In: www.slam2014.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Artful Artless Bread | Leipzig listens. (No longer available online.) In: www.leipziglauscht.de. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Security check required. In: www.facebook.com. Retrieved May 4, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Jena author writes soccer sonnets for the World Cup. In: www.otz.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016 . 
7. ^ WM sonnet cycle - Jan Lindner "The teddy bear with the loose googly eyes". In: www.jan-lindner.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016 . 
8. ^ Leipzig and its writers. In: Leipzig and its writers. Retrieved May 4, 2016 . 
9. ↑ On the devil come Rausch (book) - Periplaneta. In: Periplaneta. Retrieved on May 4, 2016 (German). 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Lindner ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis for Thuringia  
11. ↑ Radio play competition 2015 - The winners are ... In: mephisto 97.6. Retrieved May 4, 2016 .