Kai Engelke

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Kai Engelke at a reading with Helm van Hahm in 2013
Kai Engelke 2004

Kai Engelke (born April 1, 1946 in Göttingen ) is a German writer , music journalist , reciter and songwriter .

Life

Kai Engelke is the son of the journalist and writer Jooschen Engelke (1918–1962) and the painter Robin Mück-Engelke (1909–2000).

Grown up in Hildesheim, Berlin and Wyk auf Föhr, he spent his school days a. a. at the boarding school in Marburg / Lahn, graduated from high school in Gießen , began an editorial traineeship at dpa in Frankfurt am Main and completed his pedagogy studies in Hildesheim . He then worked as a freelancer for the Hildesheimer Presse, taz Bremen and Funk (NDR Hannover, Radio Bremen) and is featured in over 100 anthologies.

From 1975 to 2011 Kai Engelke worked as a teacher in Esterwegen / Emsland. From 1981 to 1988 he was the initiator of the Surwolder Literature Talks, later artistic director of the Lower Saxony / Bremen State Literature Days 2001 and 2007; artistic director and moderator of the Meppen Crime Days since 2009; Moderator of the International Song Festival at Waldeck Castle since 2011; Juror for the “best songs list” and the “German Record Critics' Prize” as well as a long-time editorial assistant at the music magazine for folk, lied and world music Folker .

Engelke was a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) from 1978 to 2014, at times also a member of the state board, and is a member of the Syndikat - authors' group of German-language crime literature.

Kai Engelke is married to Ulrike Engelke and has five children.

Works

Poetry

  • Noisy towards the night, poems and the like, Convent-Verlag, Oldenburg 1977
  • Attempts to touch, poems, Bläschke-Verlag, A-St.Michael 1979, 2nd edition 1980
  • The fear gives me a stomachache, poems and songs, Gauke-Verlag, Hann. Münden 1980
  • And in the autumn I grow wings, poems, Edition Lyrik für alle, Frankfurt 1981
  • With the world in mind, poetry, Atelier Bücker, Wehm 1989
  • Wolves always paint blue, cycle of poems (with J. Haverkamp), Waldecker Drucke, Dorweiler / Hunsrück 1990
  • Surwold-Blues, poems from 15 years, Rhön-Verlag, Hünfeld 1997

prose

  • My Little Dark Room, Stories, self-published, 1979
  • Haus im Moor, prose miniature, Die Halbe Bogen series, Göttingen 1987
  • Any I Malala, short story, Verlag Dr. Werner Reinhard, Leer 1990
  • Detlef, call your mother! Stories and satires, Klaus Bielefeld Verlag, Friedland 1998, 4th edition 2000
  • How good that everything is different with us! East-West Dialogue (with Chr.Kuhn), Klaus Bielefeld Verlag, Friedland 1999, 6th edition 2000
  • Blood, sweat and dreams, novel, Klaus Bielefeld Verlag, Friedland 2000
  • The full-time scare, crime stories, Leda-Verlag, Leer 2002
  • Der Totdenker, detective novel, Leda-Verlag, Leer 2005
  • Music lies in the crypt, new crime stories, Leda-Verlag, Leer 2016

Editions

  • I think of tomorrow, teachers write poems, Gauke-Verlag, Hann. Münden 1979, 2nd edition 1981
  • Gauke's yearbook 1982 (hopes, alternatives, utopias), Gauke-Verlag, Hann. Münden 1981
  • Street music - a manual, Gauke-Verlag, Hann. Münden 1981, 2nd extended edition 1983
  • Gauke's yearbook 1983 (Peace), Gauke-Verlag, Hann. Münden 1982
  • Surwolder Literature Talks, Documentation I-III, Verlag Graphikum Dr. Mock, Bovenden 1982
  • Keep writing !, Documentation Surwolder Literature Talks IV-VI, Gauke-Verlag, Hann. Münden 1983
  • Literature in the moor, documentation Surwolder Literature Talks VII-IX, Edition Collage, Hildesheim 1984
  • Literature in the Moor 2, documentation Surwolder Literature Talks X-XVI, Springintgut-Verlag, Oldenburg 1986
  • Between idyll and detonation, documentation of a German-German writers' meeting, (editor), Waldecker Drucke, Dorweiler 1990
  • Ostfriesland literary, 37 author portraits, (editor), working group of East Frisian authors, Aurich 1996
  • Tide turning, East Frisian literature of the 90s, (editor), De Utrooper Verlag, Aurich 1996
  • The horse in the lake, poems, songs and stories by Josef Hermann (Jooschen) Engelke, Leda-Verlag, Leer 2004

Audio cassettes

  • Lou Reed, Paul & other wolves, texts and songs (with Peter Herwig), Edition Collage, Hildesheim 1983
  • Zorn & Zärtlichkeit, poetry and piano, with P. Gerdes, J. Voss and Chr. Jarrett, Edition Collage, Hildesheim 1984

vinyl

Musik im Moor, The Musicians of Surwolder Literature Discussions IX, Edition Collage, Hildesheim 1984

CDs

  • Jazz'n'Poetry, with St. Gurr and R. Schulz, Wonderland Records, Osnabrück 1994
  • Es Mi Tango, with R. Schulz u. a., Wonderland Records, Osnabrück 1998
  • Midnight Chants, The Lost Songs of Jooschen Engelke, Conträr Musik, Schwarzenbek 2010

Prices

  • Georg Weerth Literature Prize 1989
  • 1st place at the Hamburg-Wilhelmsdorfer Poetry Slam 1998
  • Best list of the new book in Lower Saxony and Bremen 2001

TV

  • “You never know”, portrait of Kai Engelke u. a., N3 (NDR, 3rd TV program), 1986
  • “Emslandlager”, KE reads poem, 3sat, July 22, 1993
  • “Tandem Reading”, KE and Chr. Kuhn, TV Halle, October 5, 1999
  • “Sleepless at midnight”, interview with KE and Ulrike Engelke, ZDF, March 11, 2003

Web links

credentials

  • Who is who, the German Who's Who, 25th edition, Lübeck 1986 (p. 292 ff)
  • Hildesheim Literature Lexicon from 1800 until today, Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1996 (p. 63–65)
  • Literature in Lower Saxony, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000 (p. 29)
  • Literary Guide Germany, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt and Leipzig 2008 (p. 842)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of German-language crime fiction authors, Verlag der Criminale, Munich 2005 (p. 73)
  2. ↑ Almost all of them, also the following information can be found in Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Berlin / New York ff (p. 259)
  3. ^ Folker, music magazine for folk, song & world music
  4. ↑ Lower Saxony literary, Hannover 1988 (pp. 157–160)
personal data
SURNAME Engelke, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, music journalist, reciter and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen