Kai Agthe

Kai Agthe (born October 12, 1970 in Naumburg an der Saale ) is a German writer .

After training as a skilled worker for railway construction technology with a high school diploma and civil service, he studied German literature and art history in Halle and Jena (only completed literary seminars here). From 2002 to 2007 he was a research assistant at the German Institute of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , chair of comparative literature from Werner Nell. Since 2001 he has been a board member of the Thuringian Literary Society and since 2005 he has been a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2009/10 he taught German language practice and German literary history at the Institute for Germanic Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in Poland. In 2010 he designed a permanent exhibition on the history of the Sedus Stoll company for the Stoll VITA Foundation in Waldshut-Tiengen and was the editor of a commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the Stoll VITA Foundation. He works as a freelance journalist, literary scholar and lecturer at the history seminar of the Technical University of Braunschweig (chair of Matthias Steinbach ) with a focus on "Literature and Contemporary History" and at the Belvedere Music School in Weimar with a focus on "Music and Literature". As a literary critic he works primarily for the Thuringian newspaper (Weimar), the New Germany (Berlin), Das Blättchen (Berlin) and the Palmbaum - literary journal from Thuringia (Jena). Agthe has published several non-fiction books as an author and editor.

Since 2002 he has been the successor of Wulf Kirsten, the book series Edition Muschelkalk of the Literary Society of Thuringia . So far he has been the editor of 33 volumes.

In 2002 Agthe was awarded the Caroline Schlegel Prize for his essay This machine is as delicate as a small dog and causes a lot of distress .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kai Agthe in the catalog of the German National Library