Karla Reimert

Karla Reimert (born April 6, 1972 in Berlin ) is a German writer. Together with Jan Böttcher , Alexander Gumz , Daniela Seel and Uljana Wolf , she forms the editorial team "kookread" of the text-tone label "Kook". She is the director of workshops and creative writing courses. Since 2018 she has been responsible for poetic education at the Haus für Poesie.

life and work

Karla Reimert studied German, English and general and comparative literature at the Technical University of Berlin. Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Belarus and Denmark.

Single track

• Kafka for those in a hurry to build up TB; Berlin, Edition: 1st, Edition (2003), ISBN 3-7466-2019-8
• Picnic with black bees kookbooks Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-937445-62-5

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Versnetze 2; Yearbook of Poetry 2009 edited by Christoph Buchwald and Uljana Wolf Fischer (p.), Frankfurt; Edition: 1 (March 4, 2009); Literary Magazines: The Outside of the Element; Edit; tendencies; WE; the POET; Forum: www.forum-der-13.de.

Awards

• 1998 Würth Literature Prize
• 1998 final 5th open mike.
• 2001 Line Wrapping Prize of the Berlin City Libraries.
• 2001, 2002, 2003 selection for the "LiteraturvorOrt" Prize Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.
• 2001 BMW prize-winner in the competition "Lokal-Global" of the city of Steyr, Austria.
• 2002 winner of the Rheinsberg authors' forum on the subject of "Cargo Europe" ("Container stories" - the jury's reasoning: Karla Reimert tells stories of a container ship. The project that Tretyakov once called "Biography of the Thing" finds an original continuation with literary means We find it remarkable that the text does not follow the pattern of a sad migration story , but that the author has gone her own way linguistically and conceptually. Kristin Schulz : "One likes to follow the narrator in her idiosyncratic bizarre thoughts and in amazement into every corner of everyday ship life . ")
• 2003 Selection for Irseer Pegasus , selection Ms. Ava Prize
• 2004 winner of the essay competition of the Japanese embassies, Tokyo
• 2006 Jury at the Potenza Film Festival, Italy.
• 2010 grant Künstlerhaus Lukas
• 2014 Award for Poetry Debut of the Year, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
• 2015 finalist for the POLLY Prize for Political Poetry
• 2015 finalist at the Munich Poetry Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of winners of the Würth Literature Prize ( memento of the original dated November 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Karla Reimert at Poetenladen.de
• Authorinnenvereinigung.de (rtf)
• Literature by and about Karla Reimert in the catalog of the German National Library