Jan Skudlarek

Jan Skudlarek (* 1986 in Hamm ) is a German philosopher , non-fiction author and poet .

Live and act

Skudlarek grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and Spain and moved to Mallorca with his parents in 1995 . He graduated from high school in Hamm in 2003. In 2004 he began studying philosophy and Hispanic studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the University of Madrid and in 2010 passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 2015 he did his doctorate at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster on the subject of collective intentionality .

He has been literary since 2007 and received the 2008 Literature Prize from the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work. Since 2008 publication of individual poems and groups of poems in literary magazines and anthologies, etc. a. in the Neue Rundschau , randnummer, Edit and in Versnetze _drei. The poetry book erloschene finger appeared in the parasite press in 2010 . In November 2010 Skudlarek was a finalist at the 18th Open Mike of the Berlin Literature Workshop and a finalist in the Literary March 2011 in Darmstadt . In 2011 he received the Westphalian Promotion Prize for the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry and in 2016 the Postpoetry Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 2017 Skudlarek's first non-fiction book The Rise of the Middle Finger was published by Rowohlt-Verlag . In 2019 he published another philosophical non-fiction book: Truth and Conspiracy, published by Reclam .

Jan Skudlarek lives in Berlin.

Fonts

Monographs (philosophy)

• The rise of the middle finger. Why the insult is good form today . Rowohlt , Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-63299-0 .
• Truth and conspiracy. How we know what is real and what is real. Reclam , Ditzingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-15-011199-4 .

Monographs (poetry)

• extinguished fingers. Poems. Parasite press , Cologne 2010, OCLC 699705875 .
• Electrosmog. Poems. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-939557-74-6 .
• You have lips like Mozart. Poems. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95566-061-1 .

Articles in anthologies and journals (selection)

• Adrian Kasnitz and Christoph Wenzel (eds.): Westphalia, nothing else ?: an anthology , series Edition [SIC] No. 2, [SIC] -Literaturverlag and Parasitenpresse , Aachen, Zurich and Cologne 2012
• Stephan Porombka (Hrsg.): Flarf Berlin 95 net poems. Edition Pæchterhaus, Hildesheim 2012
• Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze_drei , Verlag Ralf Liebe , Weilerswist 2010
• Christoph Buchwald and Uljana Wolf (eds.): Yearbook of Poetry , Verlag S. Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 2009
• Literature journals : randnummer literaturhefte , Heft 5 (2012), BELLA triste , Heft 31 (2011), SIC - Zeitschrift für Literatur: Heft 4 (2010), Critical Edition No. 19 (2010), Edit . Issue 52 (2010), Neue Rundschau 2009/4

Translations

• Peter Gizzi : Being Dead is Good in America: Selected Poems. Bilingual. From the American by Sylvia Geist , Daniela Seel and Christian Lux. With translations by Andreas Bülhoff, Simone Kornappel and Jan Skudlarek. Luxbooks publishing house , Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-939557-43-2 .

Awards

• 2017 Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship award
• 2015: Scholarship from the Berlin Senate
• 2011: Westfälischer Förderpreis for the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry
• 2008: Literature Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work (GWK)

Reviews on Jan Skudlarek

• Florian Barany: How can you recognize reality? "Truth and Conspiracy" by Jan Skudlarek. In: FALTER 12/2019
• Westphalia scene: Jan Skudlarek is one of the most successful young poets. In: Westphalia Today. August 30, 2011.
• Angela Sanmann: Jan Skudlarek. (Commentary on his poem exit, back ), In: Culturmag. Literature, music & positions. - New word Schatz II (No. 17). January 18, 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Skudlarek in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Truth and Conspiracy" at Reclam including a reading sample
• "The rise of the middle finger" at Rowohlt including a reading sample
• Jan Skudlarek in the poet shop
• Audio recording of flarf the pain away

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Skudlarek as an author at Lettrétage Verlag, Lettrétage website ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 21, 2013. 
2. ^ Jan Skudlarek , Westphalia, the land of literature.
3. ↑ Details: Relational Intentionality. Retrieved March 30, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Master Prize for Poetry. Culture Prize of the City of Hagen ( Memento of the original from October 29, 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. . 
5. ↑ [1]
6. ^ ^{A b} Scene Westphalia: Jan Skudlarek is one of the most successful young poets. ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Westphalia Today. dated August 30, 2011, accessed March 20, 2012. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Author's page about Jan Skudlarek on the Poetenladen website , accessed on March 20, 2013.
8. ^ Program of the Parasitenpresse publishing house
9. ↑ Jan Skudlarek: extinguished fingers. ( Memento of the original from October 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: lyrikwelt.de 
10. ↑ Reading sample SIC - Zeitschrift für Literatur: Issue 4 (2010), accessed on March 21, 2013.
11. ^ ^{A b} Angela Sanmann: Jan Skudlarek. In: Culturmag. Literature, music & positions. - New word Schatz II (No. 17). January 18, 2010, accessed March 20, 2013.
12. ↑ 22-year-old Jan Skudlarek receives literary prize. In: Ruhr news. October 13, 2008.
13. ↑ Truth and Conspiracy by Jan Skudlarek - FALTER book review - falter.at. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .