Jan Volker Röhnert

Jan Volker Röhnert (born November 19, 1976 in Gera ) is a German literary scholar and author .

Jan Volker Röhnert

Life

Jan Volker Röhnert grew up in Oberndorf near Gera , studied literature , German as a foreign language , Romance languages and education at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Stays abroad took him to Italy and France: in 1998 as a trainee at the Goethe Institute in Genoa and in 2000/01 as a foreign language assistant in Toulon . From 2003 to 2008 he taught literature as a research assistant at the FSU Jena. Between 2008 and 2010 he worked as a DAAD - Lecturer at the University of Sofia . In the 2011 winter semester he was appointed Heyne Junior Professor for Modern German Literature at the German Institute of the TU Braunschweig .

Röhnert writes poems and essays on poetry that have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies. He translated poetry from French and from American English. Since 2003 he has been a speaker at the literature workshop of the Young Literature Forum Hesse-Thuringia . In 2017 Röhnert became a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In 2001 he made his debut with the artist book Fragment zum French South 1 & 2 . In My Amazing Strangeness , he examined the work of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , which had an influence on his work. His dissertation Medium and Metaphor. The film as a paradigm of poetry in the 20th century analyzes the influence of cinema on modern poetry. In his post-doctoral thesis Self-assertion , published in 2014, the author uses exemplary texts from Johann Wolfgang Goethe to Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Benn and Ernst Jünger to Peter Handke to show that the modern genre of autobiography is closely linked to the depiction of war.

Works

Poetry

• Fragment on the French South 1 & 2 , long poem and photomontages, ed. by Theo Breuer , Itzehoe: edition bauwagen, 2001. (without ISBN)
• Castle ruin blues. Poems . Weimar: Edition Muschelkalk published by Wartburg Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-86160-312-8 .
• The surrender, endless cocoon. Poem . Dresden; Jena: Edition AZUR in Glaux Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-931743-83-7 .
• Going out in sunlight . Itzehoe: Footura Black Edition in the edition bauwagen, 2005. (without ISBN)
• Baltic Times . Five poems. Warmbronn: Keicher, 2006 (without ISBN)
• Solar quartets . Poem . Rudolstadt: Burgartpresse, 2006. ISBN 3-910206-57-3
• Metropolises . Poems . Munich: Edition Lyrik Kabinett by Hanser, 2007. ISBN 978-3-446-20929-9
• Notes from Sofia. Bulgarian leaves . Poetry, notation and narration. Dresden: Edition Azur, 2011. ISBN 978-3-942375-04-7
• Thracian diary . On Orpheus' footsteps through southern Bulgaria, poetic travel diary. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Faust, 2013. ISBN 978-3-9815893-3-7
• Cloud formulas . Poems . Frankfurt am Main: Edition Faust, 2014. ISBN 978-3-945400-02-9
• Breughel's monkeys. Poems . Nettetal: Elif Verlag, 2019. ISBN 978-3-946989-23-3

Translations

• Christopher Edgar: Too much laughter in the dark. Poems German-English . Jena: Edition Azur in Glaux Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-931743-03-1
• Craig Arnold: incarnate . Poems German-English . Wiesbaden: luxbooks, 2008. ISBN 978-3-939557-34-0
• Ron Padgett: The Most Beautiful Matches in the World. Poems German-English . Mainz: Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 2017. ISBN 978-3-87162-093-5

scientific publications

• My amazing strangeness! On the poetic topography of the foreign using the example of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's travel poetry. Essay . Munich: Iudicium, 2003. ISBN 3-89129-682-7
• Jumping thoughts and flickering images. Poetry in the age of cinematography. Cendrars - Ashbery - Brinkmann (Dissertation) Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8353-0215-0
• (Ed. With Andreas Kramer) The endless expansion of celluloid. 100 years of film and cinema in poetry. An anthology . Dresden: Edition Azur, 2009. ISBN 978-3-9812804-2-5
• (Ed. With Imma Klemm) Klemm, Wilhelm: Gesammelte Verse . Mainz: Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 2012. ISBN 978-3-87162-077-5
• North is as close as West . Small poetics of the cardinal points. Essay . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014. ISBN 978-3-8353-1440-5
• Assertion. Autobiographical writing about the war by Goethe , Heine , Fontane , Benn , Jünger , Handke (habilitation thesis) . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 2014. ISBN 978-3-465-03851-1

Awards

• 2002: Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia
• 2003: Poetry Debut Prize of the Berlin Literary Colloquium
• 2003: Walter Dexel scholarship from the city of Jena
• 2004: Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
• 2005/06: Scholarship and project funding from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia
• 2006: Grant from the European Translators College in Straelen
• 2010: Harald Gerlach Literature Fellowship
• 2011: Wolfgang Weyrauch Sponsorship Award
• 2014: Media Prize of the RAI Südtirol Poetry Prize Merano

literature

• Theo Breuer: Let's talk about poetry . In: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 , Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005.
• Theo Breuer: Stroll through the verses of Jan V. Röhnert . In: Pebbles & Chestnut. Of new poems and stories . Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2008
• Wulf Kirsten: Beauty has to be reinvented . Laudation for Jan Volker Röhnert. In: Counter-images of the zeitgeist. Thuringian reminiscences . Weimar 2009, pp. 72-78.
• Branka Schaller-Fornoff: Brinkmann's reflexes with Jan Röhnert . In: Boyken / Cappelmann / Schwagmeier (ed.): Places - Heroes - Body. Paderborn / Munich 2010, pp. 178–192.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Volker Röhnert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage
• Edition Azur - Information about the volume The devotion, endless cocoon. poem
• Profile page TU Braunschweig
• Profile page Poetenladen
• Literaturport Author Lexicon Jan Röhnert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.janroehnert.de/literaturpoesie/stipendienpreise.html
2. ↑ The volume contains individual studies on Blaise Cendrars , John Ashbery and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, cf. the table of contents by Wallstein Verlag
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4. ^ "Jan Röhnert receives Gerlach literature scholarship". The Berlin literary criticism , March 4, 2010
5. ↑ Darmstädter Literarischer March 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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.