Joachim Gunter Hammer

The author will read from his works at the GAV event “Stand in the forest” in Graz in June 2013

Joachim Gunter Hammer (born January 9, 1950 in Graz ) is an Austrian poet .

Life

Joachim Gunter Hammer studied biology, physics and chemistry. He mainly writes poetry, including haiku and tanka , as well as short prose . Poems have been translated into different languages. He is a member of the Graz authors' assembly . Joachim Gunter Hammer lives in Edelstauden , Styria .

Work description

The poetry of Joachim G. Hammer extends over decades on the one hand, in terms of the feeding in of motifs and moments, on the other hand it realizes temporally limited microcosms and treats them like pixels of a larger whole. The volumes of poetry can be read like annually written and edited logbooks that react to the zeitgeist by encountering it on a linguistic level of microbes.

The connection of scientific material with the laws of poetry is what makes this poetry unique. 17-silver is used, which snake like molecular chains through the microscope, which is supplied with the reader. Sound lantern , shadow flute , winter moth , darkness sun I are book titles that already mitliefern those key that is needed to unlock the poems.

Synesthesia , dedication and artificial intelligence are repeatedly used as lyrical means. In doing so, musical and optical sensations of the lyrical self are linked. A dedication to contemporary lyricists (for example for Helwig Brunner , Christine Huber or Hannes Vyoral ) links the individual poem with the lyrical cosmos of a soulmate. Finally, artificial intelligence evolves from the worn-out poetic sequences and continues seamlessly where the classic author has withdrawn.

The motto from the volume Klanglaterne gives an indication of how this poetry might be read: Woke up as a butterfly / saw unimaginable / new colors for which you / desperately looked for words.

Publications

• Lure blowers . Poems . Merkur Verlag, Graz 1980, ISBN 3-85425-001-0 .
• Madness . Poems . Merkur Verlag, Graz 1983, ISBN 3-85425-003-7 .
• Perception . Poems . Leykam, Graz 1986, ISBN 3-7011-7170-X .
• Poems on the turning of a dark back . Poems. Leykam, Graz 1987, ISBN 3-7011-7191-2 .
• From the home of words. Poems from the star orbits 1983-1987 . Private print 1987.
• Aschenlieb . Poems . Verlag Grasl, Baden near Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85098-189-4 .
• Headlights . Poems . Leykam, Graz 1993, ISBN 3-7011-7272-2 .
• The blue pumpkin . Poems . Leykam, Graz 1995, ISBN 3-7011-7308-7 .
• Shadow plays . Poems . Verlag Grasl, Baden near Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85098-238-6 .
• Dark red mixture . Edition Doppelpunkt, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85273-113-5 .
• Stranstwane po hrebet (walking the tightrope) . Selected poems translated into Bulgarian. Sofia 2001, ISBN 954-8806-34-7 .
• Frost wrench . Edition Doppelpunkt, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85273-141-0 .
• Flutes go . Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902005-68-8 .
• Darkness sun i . Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902005-77-7 .
• The firn-black moon . 17-silver . Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902744-03-6 .
• Wind - wheels - wind . Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902744-25-8 .
• Mirror sounds from the sleep laboratory . Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902744-92-0 .
• The shadow flute . 17-silver. Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902975-04-1 .
• Podium portrait 80 . Selected poems . PODIUM, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902886-17-0 .
• Sing cicada sing . 17-silver . Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902975-34-8 .
• A thousand and one sun . 1000 & 1 seventeen silver . Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-902975-43-0 .
• In the reflection of the gong . Poems . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 2017, ISBN 978-3-85028-768-5 .
• The sound lantern , poems. 17-silver, 19-silver. Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-902975-77-5 .

Release

• The poetry flyer 2019 . Podium (magazine) ; Neulengbach Castle Literature Circle. Published by Joachim Gunter Hammer on behalf of the Podium editorial team. Vienna 2019.

literature

• Manfred Mixner : Shifting the senses . For Joachim Gunter Hammer. In: Manfred Mixner: Stories from Others . Features about authors. Keiper, Graz 2016. Pages 151–153.
• Helmuth Schönauer : Diary of a librarian . Volume II, 1999-2003. Sisyphus-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2015. ISBN 978-3-901960-80-2 . Lure blowers; Madness; Perception; Poems about the turning of a dark back; Aschenlieb; Headlights; The blue pumpkin; Dark red mixture. Page 527-533.
• Christian Teissl : About writing for two . Some notes on JG Hammer. In: Joachim G. Hammer: [selected poems]. Podium portrait 80th Podium, Vienna 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Gunter Hammer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helwig Brunner about JG Hammer in Land Steiermark 2012