Kurt Drawert

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Kurt Drawert (born March 15, 1956 in Hennigsdorf ) is a German writer .

Life

Kurt Drawert - son of a detective - grew up in Borgsdorf and Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin and from 1967 in Dresden . He trained as a skilled worker for electronics and fetched later on a night school , the high school after. He performed various auxiliary activities, including a. in a bakery, at the post office and as an assistant in the Saxon State Library in Dresden . From 1982 to 1985 Drawert studied at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig , where he also lived from 1984. He has been a freelance writer since 1986 . In 1993 he moved to Osterholz-Scharmbeck near Bremen . Trips abroad followed, u. a. to Australia , Brazil and Russia . Drawert has lived in Darmstadt since 1996 , where he has headed the Center for Young Literature since 2004.

Kurt Drawert, who belonged to the PEN Center Germany until he left in 1996 , is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig . In 2014 the German Academy for Language and Poetry elected him a member. He has been a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts since 2018.

Works

Authorship

Editing

  • The warmth, the coldness of the other's body. Berlin / Weimar 1988, ISBN 3-351-01294-2 .
  • Karl Krolow : When melancholy makes progress. Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-379-00571-1 .
  • The year 2000 takes place. Essays. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-12136-7 .
  • Michael Krüger : Archives of Doubt. Poems from three decades. Ed. And with an afterword by Kurt Drawert. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39795-8 .
  • La Poésie Allemande Contemporaine. Paris 2001.
  • Briefing. Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39797-4 .
  • Anyone who wants ore has to go deep into the tunnel. Center for Young Literature, Darmstadt 2003.
  • Every day is too long. Center for Young Literature, Darmstadt 2004.
  • Hölderlin on ZDF. Center for Young Literature, Darmstadt 2007.
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky : love poems. Selected and with an afterword by Kurt Drawert. Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-35047-7 .
  • The durability of happiness. Center for Young Literature, Darmstadt 2009.
  • Choi Seung-Ho : Autobiography made of ice. Poems. Translated from the Korean by Kyunghee Park and Kurt Drawert, with an afterword by Kurt Drawert. Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0976-0 .
  • Quarry. Center for Young Literature, Darmstadt 2012.
  • Kasinostraße 3. Poetenladen, Leipzig 2014.
  • Franz Kafka : The transformation. Edited and with an afterword by Kurt Drawert. Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-406-65992-8 .
  • The signature of your eyes. Young poetry from Germany and Turkey, bilingual. Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-945550-12-0 .
  • The own in the other. Istanbul. 20 years of Darmstadt text workshop. poetenladen Verlag, February 2018, ISBN 978-3-940691-90-3 .

Awards

literature

  • Jürgen Serke : At home in exile. Poets who stayed in the GDR on their own initiative. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-492-03981-2 , p. 379 ff.
  • Carsten Jopp: A reflection of inescapability. Bergen 1998. ( PDF )
  • Gizela Kurpanik-Malinowska: Because the object of thought was the world of the fathers ... Częstochowa 2003.
  • Andrea Rota: Speech reflection dopo la caduta del Muro: Christa Wolf e Kurt Drawert. In: Jacques ei suoi quaderni , 48/2007, pp. 175-189.
  • Andrea Rota: "In these 'new' times, my position is too vague to be able to put it into words." Literary reflections on language after the fall of the Wall, using the example of Christa Wolf and Kurt Drawert. In Studia Theodisca 16/2009, pp. 9-26.
  • Andrea Rota: Tra silenzio e parola. Riflessioni sul linguaggio nella letteratura inglese-orientale dopo il 1989. Christa Wolf e Kurt Drawert. Trento 2010, ISBN 978-88-8443-343-5 .
  • Mathias Brandstädter: Consequential damage. Context, narrative structures and forms of development of father literature 1960 to 2008. Definition of a genre. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 3-8260-4446-0 , pp. 136–143 and 196–212.
  • Peter Geist (ed.): Kurt Drawert. Text and criticism , Bd. 213. München 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-565-3 .

Web links

Commons : Kurt Drawert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Drawert in the poet shop
  2. ↑ Press release: New members of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , June 16, 2015.
  3. ^ New York Scholarship - German Literature Fund. Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Eckhard Lange: Werner Bergengruen Prize 2013. (No longer available online.) Werner Bergengruen Society, archived from the original on January 31, 2016 ; accessed on January 31, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / werner-bergengruen-gesellschaft.de
  5. ^ Robert Gernhardt Prize to Ulrike Syha and Kurt Drawert , Der Standard, June 24, 2014, accessed July 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Drawert, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennigsdorf