Karsten Sturm
Karsten Paul Sturm (* 1953 in Bad Bevensen ) is a writer and painter.
Life
Karsten Sturm grew up in Hamburg and Hanover . His mother an artisan, his father a chemist, fled Jena in 1953, then GDR. He completed training in integrative therapy (gestalt therapy) at the Fritz Perls Institute in Düsseldorf. Studied social sciences, politics and social psychology at Leibniz University Hannover. In the 70s & 80s he worked as a group therapist in facilities for drug addicts, then as a supervisor & teaching therapist.
As a critic and columnist, he worked for almost 20 years for the Literary Info Center Bottrop (UM-Info), for the magazine Gegengift (Pfaffenhofen) and for KunstAmSonntag Hannover. He has published poetry and prose miniatures on Radio Bremen, NDR Kultur, ORF Vienna, Radio Basel & Radio Flora Hannover. He wrote film scripts, staged audio and theater plays such as "Reise nach IX" (1984) and "ZEX" (1987). Translations of Italian, Spanish, French and poetry. Travel poetry in anthologies at dtv & rororo. Since 1990 he has been painting with acrylic paints, pigments & sand on canvas, sometimes in large formats. Participation in 22 exhibitions. Most recently: "Raumfahrt 9", SofaLoft Hannover, 2013.
Sturm lives and works as a writer and artist in Hanover and temporarily in Rome. He is the father of two children from different partnerships.
Awards
- 1986: Lower Saxony Young Talent Award for Literature
- 1990: Ittingen Charterhouse Foundation , Switzerland
- 1990: Atelierhaus Scholarship Worpswede
- 1993: Barkenhoff Foundation, Worpswede guest studio (Rilke rooms)
- 1994: Atelierhaus Mori, Hokkaido / Japan
- 1996: Working grant for writers, Ministry for Science and Art Lower Saxony
- 2013–19: Artist Aid from the Federal President.
Works (selection)
- Light looks: poems and epigrams . Selbst-Verlag, Hanover 1976.
- Tibetan Rose: New Poems From This Hostile Land . Womm-Press, Horn-Bad Meinberg 1976, ISBN 3-88080-019-7 .
- Mozart's Piano Concerts or The Trees of Our Future, Travel Stories, in: Falk Zehn, Head Farm Odisheim & Kellner Verlag Hamburg 1984. Ed. Helmut Salzinger.
- Haikus Liebe, 22 haikus in letterpress, hand-bound, ZET Production Hanover, 1988.
- X MESS AGE, art catalog / video / film. Gallery ZET & University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig 1990–91
- The rule sprinkler . Cracked Egg, 1993, ISBN 3-910067-53-0 .
- The whisker . Cracked Egg, 1994, ISBN 3-910067-57-3 .
- It's Time, prose sketches with color copies by Michael Lembke, private print, Bremerhaven 1994.
- Timbuktu - No sugar without salt (1 book from traveling) . Buchlabor, Dresden 2001. ISBN 3-929693-18-6 . ,
- The little things, Roman prose & Linden Live, in: VerwOrtungen, Anthologie, Hannover 2015.
- Bettina von Minnigerode, Karsten Paul Sturm: Perspectives: A multiple narrative . Iatros, Sonnefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-86963-880-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karsten Sturm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ freedom of speech. In: punkt-linden.de. 2015, accessed October 14, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sturm, Karsten |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sturm, Karsten Paul (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Bevensen |