Jochen Kelter

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Jochen Kelter (born September 8, 1946 in Cologne ) is a German - Swiss writer and translator.

life and work

Jochen Kelter studied literature and linguistics in Cologne, Aix-en-Provence and Konstanz . Kelter writes poetry , prose , essays , plays and translations from English , French and Italian , which have been published in anthologies and literary journals. He made his debut in 1978 with the volume of poetry »Zwischenbericht«, which was followed by numerous individual titles. Kelter was a co-founder and co-editor of the literary magazine UNIVERS (1974-1981).

The Association of German Writers (VS), now in ver.di , elected him as deputy chairman of the federal executive committee at the Saarbrücken congress in 1984. He is also a member of the ProLitteris (President from 2002 to 2010), European Writers' Council (President 1989–2003), PEN Center Germany and authors in Switzerland . Between 1988 and 2001 he was General Secretary of the Olten Group .

Jochen Kelter lives in Ermatingen (Switzerland) and Paris . In 2016 he was u. a. to the International Poetry Festival Medellin invited.

Jochen Kelter's legacy is in the Franz-Michael-Felder-Archive in Bregenz.

Works (selection)

Authorship

  • Language is a shifting dune . Essays on Literature and Society (2019)
  • Like a feather across the sky. Poems (2017)
  • Now I'll make a sentence. An almost futile attempt on the erased past (2017)
  • The seagulls of Sultanahmet. Poems (2015)
  • Dogodine u Sarajevu / Next year in Sarajevo (2015)
  • Not here where everything rules. Poems (2014)
  • The jump out of your head. Essays and texts 1981–2011 (2012)
  • An idea of ​​what is . Poems (2009)
  • A place under the sky. Life beyond borders. Essays and Texts (2008)
  • A suburb to the world. Life with limits. Essays and texts from Switzerland (2007)
  • Linger in the world. Poems (2006)
  • Hall or the invention of the stranger. Novel (2005)
  • Then it is day. Poems 1997-2000 (2001)
  • The remembered look. Poems 1993–1996 (2000)
  • The Californian singer. Stories (1999)
  • But at least water. (1998)
  • Elsewhere. Postcards 1995–1997 (1998)
  • Quarry trip. A European run of the year (1996)
  • All right, if you like. Poems 1989–1993 (1994)
  • Defense of words. Poems 1986–1989 (1992)
  • In the best of all worlds. A farce in ten pictures (1991)
  • Sixty-eight following. Articles, glosses, essays (1991)
  • A place under the sky. Texts from Alemannia (1989)
  • Derfranger's time. Stories (1988)
  • Message from inside the world. Poems 1982–1986 (1986)
  • Dark clouds, fatherland. The German provincial press intervenes. 35 glosses (1986)
  • The stone island. Answers from New York. A Tale (1985)
  • Laura. One cycle. Poems (1984)
  • The jump out of your head. Prose, Articles (1984)
  • Invisible in the deaf ear. Poems (1982)
  • Land of dreams. Poems 1975–1979 (1979)
  • Interim report. Poems (1978)

Editing

  • Lake Constance stories . Together with Hermann Kinder (2009)
  • Lake Constance Reading Book - 18 authors introduce themselves (1990)
  • I'm only in words. Johannes Poethen on his 60th birthday, together with Jürgen P. Wallmann (1988)
  • The impotence of feelings. Home between desire and reality (1986)
  • Culture at the end? Culture in the province. 11 snapshots (1985)
  • Konstanzer Trichter - Reading book of a region (1983)
  • Literature in the Alemannic area. Regionalism and Dialect, together with Peter Salomon (1978)
  • My country is a strong castle. New texts on the situation in the FRG (1976)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. vlb.vorarlberg.at
  2. Stefan Keller: Looking for Identity in the World. Book review / reading report in the Thurgauer Zeitung on May 11, 2012, accessed on May 12, 2012.

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