José FA Oliver

José FA Oliver, in August 2012

José Francisco Agüera Oliver (born July 20, 1961 in Hausach ) is a German-speaking writer .

Life

José FA Oliver was born into a Spanish guest worker family who came to the Federal Republic of Germany from Málaga in 1960 . He grew up speaking German and Spanish and is also familiar with the Alemannic dialect of his Black Forest homeland. Oliver completed his Abitur at the Robert-Gerwig-Gymnasium in Hausach and then studied Romance languages , German and philosophy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He has lived as a freelance writer in his hometown Hausach since the 1980s , interrupted by stays abroad in Switzerland, Spain, Egypt, Peru and the USA.

Oliver is the author of poems, short prose and essays on cultural-political topics. He also experiments with his poems across disciplines and sometimes sings them at readings. Furthermore, his poems were also implemented in dance in the Sydney Opera House and he performed together with the rapper Doppel-U .

Oliver is a member of the Association of German Writers and is the curator of the Hausacher Reading Lenz literary festival that he set up in 1998. In addition to readings by many internationally known writers, this offers "writing, painting and storytelling workshops as well as an extensive accompanying program" for children and young people.

. He has developed the "writing workshops for schools" in cooperation with the Literaturhaus Stuttgart that promote language sensitivity of children and young people and will expand their understanding of dealing with literature "From his work and the experience gained from it was Oliver's book practice Material: Lyric writing in class (2020).

In 2002 Oliver was visiting professor at MIT , and in 2007 he took over the Chamisso poetics lectureship at TU Dresden .

Awards

• 1989 Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• 1994 residency grant from the Berlin Literary Colloquium
• 1996 scholarship from the Kurt Tucholsky Foundation
• 1997 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• 2001 Dresden city clerk
• 2004 City Clerk in Cairo
• 2007 Baden-Württemberg Culture Prize (main prize)
• 2009 Squidward Troll Prize
• 2012 Joachim Ringelnatz Prize (Young Talent Prize)
• 2013 scholarship from the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul
• 2015 Basel Poetry Prize
• 2016 Leverage thanks to the Leerrach Lever Association
• 2019 Liliencron Lecturer in Poetry

Publications

• On-break. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-923446-17-9 .
• Heimatt and other fossil dreams. Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-923446-50-0 .
• Our father in Lima. Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-87324-106-4 .
• Because I love this country. Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-923446-94-2 .
• Guest. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86093-034-6 .
• Oystercatcher, marinero, bird woman. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86093-136-9 .
• Duende. Gutach 1997, ISBN 3-9804636-3-X .
• Hausacher Fools Codex. Hausach 1998, ISBN 3-00-002334-8 .
• Fernlautmetz. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-12212-6 .
• marginal traces. Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12307-6 .
• Finnish winter stock. Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-12397-1 .
• shelter. Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41817-3 .
• My Andalusian Black Forest village. Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12487-1 .
• tachograph. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12604-2 .
• Lyric writing in class. From the word to the condensation. Seelze 2013, ISBN 978-3-7800-4963-6 .
• Guest room. Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86337-075-6 .
• Guest. New edition. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89930-034-5 .
• HEIMATT: Early poems. Selection. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89930-031-4 .
• 21 poems from Istanbul 4 letters & 10 photo locations. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-283-7 .
• wound guarantee Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-565-4 .
• to stay as well as to hike - Holderlin, dear friend. (with Mikael Vogel ) Frankfurt 2020, ISBN 978-3-89930-193-9 .

Translations

• Federico García Lorca : sorpresa, unexpectedly. Selected poems 1918–1921. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-902871-64-0 .
• Ilija Trojanow : rooted in stone. Poems. Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-88423-575-1 . (English German)

Editing

• Cross-border literature. Hanover 1992.
• Verses in Madrid. Madrid 1999.
• I cut out the time. Hausach 2001.
• night tracks. Frankfurt am Main 2002.
• Close to the neighbor. Hausach 2004.

Web links

Commons : José FA Oliver  - album with pictures

• http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/oliver/bio-d.html#bio
• http://web.mit.edu/course/21/21.german/www/oliverabout.html
• Literature by and about José FA Oliver in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature festival founded by Oliver

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: José FA Oliver - An author between language barriers - reading in the Prague literary house of German-speaking authors. In: prag-aktuell.cz , April 7, 2017.
2. ↑ WortKlang 2014 with double U! Greiz - Colorful together. meinanzeiger, accessed June 30, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Homepage of the Leselenz literature festival. Retrieved January 8, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Hausacher reading Lenz. In: Neumayer Foundation. Retrieved January 8, 2020 . 
5. ↑ When writers take lessons with German teachers. In: youtube.com. Bosch Foundation, December 5, 2018, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Lyric writing in German lessons. In: lpz-stuttgart.de. Literature Pedagogical Center of the Literaturhaus Stuttgart, accessed on January 8, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Buchmarkt.de of November 26, 2014: Basler Poetry Prize for José Oliver , accessed on November 30, 2014.
8. ↑ https://literaturhaus-sh.de/projekte/liliencron_dozentur.aktuelle.html#events