Leander Sukov
Leander Sukov (born Martin Timm on December 26, 1957 in Hamburg-Barmbek ) is a German writer and author .
Life
Leander Sukov is a member of the PEN Center Germany . On May 10, 2019, he was elected Vice-President and Writers-in-Exile Commissioner. His political stance is reflected in many of his works.
Leander Sukov was elected Deputy Federal Chairman of the Association of German Writers at the Writers' Congress in Schweinfurt in February 2019.
The Leipzig reviews read about Leander Sukov's work
“In addition to the texts focused on sexuality… there are… political texts… Just as his poems about eroticism do not drift into pornography, does the forefinger appear in his political poems… Another so far little known facet of his poetic work are the influences of the beat generation, ... "
In addition to novels and poems, Leander Sukov writes articles for the daily newspapers taz and young world and for the weekly newspaper Our Time . Some poems of Leander Sukov from the poetry collection Perlensau were by Sascha Mersch set to music and have appeared on the same CD.
From June 2016 Sukov took over the "literary management" of the Kulturmaschinen- Verlag. In the meantime, the name of the publisher has been transferred to the newly founded association of culture machine authors and Sukov has become an equal member of the association.
Works
- December child , autobiographical novel, Vier-Vögel-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-938366-0-04
- Homo Clausus , Culture Machines , 2009, ISBN 978-3-940274-07-6
- It is better to be spoiled too ... , 21 Shakespeare sonnets (adaptations), Culture Machines, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940274-05-2 (first edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-940274-00-7 )
- Pearl pig. Kulturmaschinen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940274-06-9 (first edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-940274-01-4 )
- Waiting for Ahab: or City of Love Death , Culture Machines, 2012, ISBN 978-3-940274-55-7
- The alternative would have been Dorsch , Kurzgeschichten, Kulturmaschinen , 2015, ISBN 978-3943977615
- Nice little town , culture machines , novella about Ochsenfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3943977639
- A boy from Nigeria sits on a bench near the horse paddocks and dreams of happiness , poems, Ochsenfurter Edition, 2016, ISBN 978-3946497004
- Obscene , long poem, culture machines , 2020, ISBN 978-3-96763-089-3
- More fonts
- Instead of an afterword. 1981 In: Motifs that get under your skin. Carussell Verlag (1st edition) ( ISBN 978-3922594291 of the 4th edition)
- A fearful answer , 2003 In: Netzgeschichten 5. yedermann Verlag, ISBN 3-935269-23-4
- Warm to the heart. 2007 In: Die Brücke - Antiracist magazine. Issue 146
- Poems, 2008 In: Die Brücke - Antirassistische Zeitschrift. Issue 148
- Poems, 2009 In: Die Brücke - Antirassistische Zeitschrift. Issue 151
- Ode to the yeast dumplings. 2010 In: New poetry album . Issue 1/2010 Eating and Drinking - Poems. ISBN 978-3-937264-67-7 , p. 8.
Network activity
Sukov writes his own blog at www.leandersukov.de
He runs the page literaturglobe.de , u. a. with the former ARD radio correspondent Norbert Ahrens, the former ZEIT editor Martin Ahrends and the writer Peter H. Gogolin . The site has been located at /kultur-und-politik.de since 2018
reception
In the blurb of "On a bench ..." Dr. Maurice Schuhmann, Lecturer at the University of Grenoble , about the author:
"Sukov writes both prose and poetry. His poetry moves in the tense relationship between neo-realism and neo-romanticism. His works are often idealistic and are based on a humanistic worldview. Mystical images in the stories and poems result from the Sukov The binding relationship of the present to the past, i.e. from the constant flow of the comprehensive happening. Sukov sees in the now the short-lived result of a cybernetic process from the past, which is so complex that the process itself no longer allows a complete explanation of its state of being, but only can be partially linked by abstract narratives, thereby showing tendencies. These developmental traits are in a constant process.
The human suffering as a concrete being, detached from the abstract rationality of the world and enclosed in a being of its own is the continuous red thread of the work. Sukov does not believe in predetermined fate, but in the creative power of the individual, which, however, is rarely strong enough to change the cybernetic process of the course of time. "
On Friday it says about the novel Waiting for Ahab , published in 2012 :
“Leander Sukov's monologue ... is powerful, defeatist and very erotic - so the novel seems to have fallen out of time ... The beautiful, subjectivistic language ... in the tradition of Peter Handke ... recalls in its careless materialism. .. ans detailed monologues by António Lobo Antunes or Nanni Balestrini ("I Furiosi"): a temperate sea of syllables, in which the wind of temperament drives the words. "
Awards and grants
- 2014 - Nomination for the Horst Bingel Prize
- 2014 - Residence grant at the Schleswig-Holstein artist house in Eckernförde
Web links
- Literature by and about Leander Sukov in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leander Sukov in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
- Official website of Leander Sukov
Individual evidence
- ↑ What's the point of this Sukov, Sukov? , Leander Sukov website, viewed October 21, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.pen-deutschland.de/de/pen-zentrum-deutschland/lösungen/#people-S
- ^ The beggar , on "Sprachgarbe", sighted on January 11, 2011.
- ^ Members of the VS executive committee. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Perlensäue & Shakespeare Sonnets ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Maurice Schuhmann in Leipzig reviews May-June 2008
- ^ Counterparties - A book about two highly dissimilar agents in the Cold War, in: Junge Welt, print edition of March 8, 2010, p. 15.
- ↑ Driving force. In memory of the writer Wolf-Dieter Krämer , in: Junge Welt, March 23, 2019.
- ↑ That sounds Chinese to me - A few thoughts on the Frankfurt Book Fair by Leander Sukov In: UZ of October 30, 2009
- ↑ The position paper doesn't hurt at all, but it doesn't help either. by Leander Sukov ( memento of July 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: UZ of October 28, 2009
- ↑ Sascha Mersch - Perlensau - poems set to music by Leander Sukov. In: Contraste . Issue 303, p. 2.
- ↑ Warschauer ( memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Maurice Schumann on Perlensau by Sascha Mersch and Leander Sukov.
- ↑ Leander Sukov takes over program management at Kulturmaschinen-Verlag , buchmarkt.de, May 31, 2017, accessed on May 31, 2017
- ↑ Review of December child on linkesbuch.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review of Homo Clausus In: Europa Literaturkreis Kapfenberg. from January 10, 2010
- ↑ The book contains an essay - in translation - by Rictor Norton
- ↑ Slut Shakespeare by Claudia Wangerin In: Junge Welt. April 5, 2008, p. 12
- ↑ Contains a speech on January 8, 2005 in Berlin by Esther Bejarano
- ↑ Review of Schöne kleine Stadt In Neues Deutschland, Nov. 12, 2015 (Paywall)
- ↑ [1] Marcel Lalachowski in Friday April 26, 2012 Page 16
- ^ [2] / Report in the Eckernförder Zeitung
- ↑ Scholarship in the Schleswig-Holstein Künstlerhaus Eckernförde ( memorial from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) / Website Schleswig-Holstein Kultur
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sukov, Leander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Timm, Martin (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |