Kurt Sigel

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Kurt Sigel ( pseudonyms : René Legis , Hazie Schiefer , born August 3, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer and visual artist .

Life

Kurt Sigel attended secondary school up to secondary school leaving certificate . He then completed training as a typesetter . From 1952 to 1954 he worked in this profession, from 1954 to 1956 he worked as a typographer and graphic artist , and from 1956 to 1967 he was a freelance retoucher and graphic artist. After three years as a freelance writer, he headed an art gallery from 1971 . Since 1982 he has lived as a freelance writer and painter in Frankfurt am Main.

Kurt Sigel published in addition to his professional activities, from the fifties novels , short stories , poems and radio plays , in part, to high German , partly on Neuhessisch . As a visual artist he was active in the fields of painting , drawing and photography .

Kurt Sigel is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the Association of German Writers and the writers' association " Die Kogge ". In 1966 he received the sponsorship award for the Kogge Literature Prize, in 1983 and 1988 a working grant from the German Literature Fund and in 1991 the plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main .

Kurt Sigel Poetry Prize

In 2015 Kurt Sigel donated a poetry prize named after him, which is advertised by the PEN Center Germany. The prize is awarded every two years to a poet for poems of high aesthetic quality and is endowed with 4,000 euros.

Prize winners:

Works

  • Dream and Food , Heidelberg 1958
  • Exclusion zones , Hamburg 1960
  • Flames and Laughter , Munich [a. a.] 1965
  • Fire, de Maa burns: All sorts of weird verses, booze, love and cannibal songs in Frankfurt dialect. Illustrated and provided with a light line , Werkstätten Galerie Gierig, Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Change of course , Society of Hessian Literature Friends, Darmstadt 1968
  • Knigge verkehrt , Frankfurt 1970 (together with Kurt Halbritter )
  • Songs and attacks , Munich 1970
  • Cannibalism , Tübingen [a. a.] 1972
  • Uff Deiwelkommraus , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • Zudänd in Frankfort un annerswo , Rothenburg (ob der Tauber) 1975
  • Kotilow or Salto mortale inwards , Düsseldorf 1977
  • Counter-speeches, Quergebabbel , Düsseldorf 1978
  • Krumm de Schnawwel, grad de Kerl , Düsseldorf 1980
  • Verses against deaf ears , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Geifer-, Gift- and Suddelverse , Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Kotilow's wounds , Frankfurt / Main 1989
  • Great Hesse Parliament , Giessen 1994
  • Against words , Munich 2001
  • Reason for termination , Darmstadt 2002
  • Your dreams are my beacons , Munich 2005
  • Lucky luck. Erotic stories and other prose with love verses and drawings by the author , Ludwigsburg 2011

Exhibition catalogs

  • Kurt Sigel , Frankfurt am Main 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Kurt Sigel Poetry Prize" from the German PEN. PEN Center Germany, accessed on August 13, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Kurt Sigel-Lyrikpreis announced , boersenblatt.net, July 4, 2017, accessed on July 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Newly seen. PEN award for Dorothea Grünzweig . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 18, 2018, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Sigel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main