Joachim Sartorius

Joachim Sartorius at the Hausacher Leselenz 2015

Joachim Sartorius (born March 19, 1946 in Fürth ) is a German lawyer , diplomat , festival director , poet and translator .

Life

Joachim Sartorius is the son of a diplomat . He attended schools in Tunisia , the Congo and Cameroon . In 1963 he passed the final exams in Bordeaux . From 1964 to 1971 he studied law at universities in Munich , London , Strasbourg and Paris , and since 1968 also political science . In 1973 he passed his second state examination in law and received his doctorate in law that same year.

From 1974 to 1986 Sartorius worked in the German diplomatic service: first as a cultural advisor in New York , then as a press officer in Ankara , as an advisor for intra-German relations and finally as an envoy in Nicosia . Between 1980 and 1982 he was the personal advisor to State Minister Hildegard Hamm-Brücher . From 1986 to 1994 he was head of the Berlin artist program of the German Academic Exchange Service , from 1994 a member of the planning staff of the Foreign Office and from 1995 head of the department for cultural affairs at the Berlin Senate Administration. In 1996 he was appointed Secretary General of the Goethe Institute in Munich . From 2001 to the end of 2011 he was the artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele .

Sartorius has emerged as a poet , editor and translator . He received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1992 and the Paul Scheerbart Prize in 1999 . Sartorius is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and, together with Norbert Miller, publisher of the journal Language in the Technical Age and a member of the jury of the annual Friedrich Gundolf Prize . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Sartorius is a member of the management of the Federal Cultural Events in Berlin GmbH (KBB) in Berlin.

He is married to the literary agent and translator Karin Graf .

In 1998 he became a. a. to the International Poetry Festival Medellin invited.

In December 2011, Sartorius was named a Knight of the Arts ( Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres ) by the French Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand .

State and churches in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar , Munich 1973.
I say to whom , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1988.
The golden tower , Cologne 1990 (together with James Lee Byars).
The table is getting cold , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1992.
Vakat , Cologne 1993 (together with Nan Goldin ).
What began in the tower , Aachen 1995.
Nobody freezes differently , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996.
James Lee Byars in conversation with Joachim Sartorius , Cologne 1996.
In the Egyptian films , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39752-4 .
The world above the water level , Berlin 2001.
I have the night , poems, DuMont, Cologne 2003.
Capucelle , Münster 2003.
Hôtel des Étrangers , poems, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04032-6 .
The Prinzeninseln , Mare Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86648-116-9 .
My Cyprus or the Geckos from Bellapais , Mare Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86648-174-9 .
Never a respite , Handbook of Political Poetry in the 20th Century, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04691-5 .
For nothing and everything again , poems, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04822-3 .
Lizards. A portrait , Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-957-57791-7 .

Europe from the outside , Berlin 1989
Atlas of New Poetry , Reinbek near Hamburg 1995
Yearbook of Poetry (with Christoph Buchwald), Munich 1995
In this poverty - what abundance! , Göttingen 1996
Contemporary German poetry , Chicago, Ill. 1998
Minima poetica , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1999
Alexandria , Stuttgart [et al.] 2001
Amal al-Jubouri : So much Euphrates between us , Berlin 2003
Never a respite. Handbook of Political Poetry in the 20th Century . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04691-5

John Ashbery : Self-Portrait in the Convex Mirror , Munich [ao] 1977 (together with Christa Cooper)
John Ashbery : Girls on the run , Munich [ao] 2002
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle : Secret report and other biographical records , Munich 1986
Louis Dudek : For you, you - Für Dich, Dir. Selected poems , English - German, Berlin 2006 (together with Christian Filips , edited by Bernhard Beutler)
Robert Gray : Schwindendes Licht , poems with etchings by Claudia Berg, Verlag Thomas Reche 2007
Jacques Roubaud : Edenkoben , Edenkoben 1998

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personal data
SURNAME	Sartorius, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, diplomat, theater manager, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fuerth