Jan Wagner (writer)

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Jan Wagner at the Leipzig Book Fair 2015

Jan Wagner (born October 18, 1971 in Hamburg ) is a German writer , poet and translator .

life and work

Jan Wagner passed his Abitur in 1992 at the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg and studied English at the University of Hamburg , at Trinity College (Dublin) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he wrote a master's thesis on the youngest generation of Anglo-Irish poets completed. From 1995 to 2003 he published the international poetry box Die outside des Elementes together with Thomas Girst . This offset print was a loose-leaf collection that was presented in a box, whereby the reader was asked to archive the leaves without authorization. Among other things, contemporary Persian and Dutch poetry was presented. The model for this project was Marcel Duchamp's box in a suitcase .

Since the publication of his first volume of poetry in 2001, Wagner has worked as a freelance writer, editor and translator from English and American. Poems have been published in numerous anthologies (including Der Große Conrady ) and literary magazines ( Akzente , BELLA triste , Sinn und Form , Muschelhaufen ). As a critic, Wagner wrote reviews for the Frankfurter Rundschau and other newspapers as well as for radio. He has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2009, and of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz since 2010 . He is also a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg , the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and the PEN Center Germany . With Wagner's volume of poetry Regentonnenvariationen , a poetry title received the prize at the Leipzig Book Fair for the first time .

Jan Wagner has lived in Berlin since 1995 and in the Neukölln district of Berlin since 2000 .

Under the motto “Beautiful Babel. European readings ”, Jan Wagner curated forum: authors at the Munich Literature Festival in November 2018 .

Publications

Single track

radio play

Release

translation

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Jan Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Wagner. Vita. In: literaturport.de. In: Literaturport , accessed June 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jan Wagner. In: badsk.de. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, accessed on February 24, 2020.
  3. ^ Member entry by Jan Wagner at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on November 6, 2017. -
    ›Ceremonial lecture by Jan Wagner‹. In: adwmainz.de, November 20, 2019, accessed on February 25, 2020 (“since 2010 member of the class for literature and music”).
  4. ↑ Jan Wagner wins Leipzig Book Prize: "I prefer to write in my old wing chair". In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 12, 2015, accessed June 20, 2017.
  5. ↑ Jan Wagner curates the forum: autoren 2018. In: literaturfest-muenchen.de. LiteraturSeiten Munich, February 2, 2018, accessed on August 28, 2018 (for the 9th Munich Literature Festival 2018; source: Rathaus Umschau. 24/2018 of February 2, 2018).
  6. ↑ Scholarship holders. In: kuenstlerhof-schreyahn.de, accessed on July 1, 2017.
  7. ^ Jan Wagner receives the Georg Büchner Prize. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 18th October 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg