Karsten Hohage
Karsten Hohage (* 1968 in Bonn ) is a German writer and slam poet . He also appears under the pseudonym "Grohacke".
Life
Hohage grew up in Darmstadt , where he attended the Georg Büchner School until 1988 . He studied geology in Freiburg i.Br. and Canada and now lives with his wife and child in Weinheim near Heidelberg .
He is a member of the Guilelmia Lower Saxony singers in Freiburg , his experiences during his student days are the subject of his novel Male WG with compulsory drinking .
1996–1998 Hohage worked as an editor for the computer game magazine Bestseller Games . In 2003 he took part in a poetry slam for the first time. Since then he has been a participant in the German-language Poetry Slam championships several times (2004–2011) and has repeatedly reached the final round - in a team (2005, 2008) and individually (2009). In 2012 he was co-organizer and moderator of the 2012 slam in Heidelberg and Mannheim. Hohage is a founding member of the Heidelberg reading stage “General Assembly” and moderates poetry slams in Heidelberg and Mannheim.
Standalone publications
- GRObgeHACKtEs , Lektora 2010, ISBN 978-3-938470-42-8 .
- Male flat share with compulsory drinking , Rowohlt 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-62956-3 .
Contributions to anthologies
- Various articles in Klaus Cäsar Zehrer / Robert Gernhardt (eds.): Form a sentence with ... , S. Fischer Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17437-9 .
- Balloon driver Jean and Flieger-Horst in Petra Anders (Ed.): Texts and materials for the lessons. Slam Poetry , Reclam-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-150-15060-3 .
- Aunt Leni, the Russians, Uncle Paul and the stupid mountain pine in Dietmar Bittrich (ed.): Christmas with the humpback relatives , Rowohlt 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-63014-9 .
- Ballon driver Jean and Flieger-Horst in Karsten Strack (eds.): The ultimate poetry slam anthology , Lektora 2014, ISBN 978-3-95461-030-3 .
- The Omi was a refugee in Lampe, Karsten; Lampe, Petra (Hrsg.): Ugly Welcome - Texts on Flight and Home , Satyr Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-947-10608-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karsten Hohage in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karsten Hohage's website
- Personal blog
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hohage, Karsten |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and slam poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |