Kinga Tóth

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Kinga Tóth (born 1983 in Sárvár ) is a German-Hungarian author with a focus on poetry , who is known for her live performances .

life and work

Kinga Tóth is a qualified linguist. In addition to her own writing activities, she teaches German and German literature . She also works as a journalist and editor. In her own artistic work, she often works across disciplines. She often performs her lyrical texts with sound support, has illustrated some of her volumes of poetry herself and is the songwriter and front woman of the Tóth Kína Hegyfalu project. She also worked as a singer and lyricist for the music projects 33 astral bodies and Tuning Ballerina . Kinga Tóth writes in English, German and Hungarian and has written poetry as well as short stories and plays. She appears internationally with her performances at festivals and book fairs. Kinga Toth is a member of József Attila -Kreises for young writers.

Awards and grants

  • 2013: Scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude
  • 2014: Havirov art residency, Czech Republic, Visegrad Project; Móricz Zsigmond Literature Prize
  • 2016: Guest at Goldsmith University, London; Rosenthal Scholarship Jena, BOSCH-Solitude-Wimmelforschung Art Program, GEDOK Art Scholarship Lübeck
  • 2017: Best poetry debut, Haus für Poesie, Berlin; Scholarship from the Berlin Literary Colloquium
  • 2018: Graz city clerk
  • 2019: Studio grant from the Landis & Gyr Foundation, Zug (Switzerland)
  • 2020: Sponsorship award for the Hugo Ball Prize

Publications

  • Zsúr poems with illustrations. Prae Kiadó, Hungary 2013
  • All-machine poems. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2014
  • All machine poems. Magvető Kiadó, Hungary 2014
  • We build a city poems, graphics, photos. Parasite press , Cologne 2016
  • Village 0-24 poems, graphics and sound art. Melting Books Publisher 2016
  • Party poems with illustrations. Bird LCC Publishing House, USA 2017
  • Party poems and drawings. Parasite press , Cologne 2019
  • Maislieder poems with graphics by the author and Christian Thanhäuser . Edition Thanhäuser , Ottensheim 2019. ISBN 978-3-900986-97-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kinga Tóth - Kulturzeit series. ZDF , August 29, 2016, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kinga Tóth. Akademie Schloss Solitude , 2013, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Kinga Tóth. ZN Festival, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Hugo Ball Prize 2020 goes to Bov Bjerg / Promotion Prize for Kinga Tóth. In: fixpoetry.de. October 21, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tóth, Kinga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian writer and performer
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Sárvár