Lino Wirag

Lino Wirag (* 1983 in Pforzheim ) is a German author , illustrator and cultural scientist .

Life

Wirag studied literature and art history in Freiburg, creative writing and cultural journalism with Hanns-Josef Ortheil and Stephan Porombka in Hildesheim , art in Nykarleby, Finland, and as a postgraduate at a graduate school at the University of Konstanz . He has published texts and illustrations in numerous anthologies and school books as well as in magazines and newspapers ( Titanic , Bella triste , Pardon , Merkur , Das Gedicht , Süddeutsche Zeitung ) and realized book projects for various independent publishers (some under a pseudonym ). He has received grants and sponsorship awards for his work. Wirag has hosted the poetry slam in his hometown of Pforzheim since 2003 (which in 2011 provided the German-speaking champion with Nektarios Vlachopoulos). In 2005 he developed the event format Live.Poetry : With this combination of poetry slam and theater sport , authors (at the Prosanova literature festival 2011, for example, Hendrik Jackson and Uljana Wolf ) create texts in interaction with the audience. As a cultural scientist, he publishes on the topics of comics , comics and event literature . Wirag lives and works in Munich.

Publications (selection)

scientific publications

• Bursting with laughter. Comedy and children's book . Autumnus Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-938531-30-3 .
• From comic studies to comic studies. Christian A. Bachmann Verlag 2012.
• Comic drawing: figurations of an aesthetic practice (diss.). Christian A. Bachmann Verlag 2016. 978-3-941030-67-1. contents

Contributions

• Contemporary forms of informal literature mediation. In: Vanessa-Isabelle Reinwand u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of Cultural Education. kopaed 2012. ISBN 978-3-86736-330-3 .
• The birth of the poetry slam from the spirit of the theater . In: KulturPoetik: Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 269–281.

Illustration / comic

• Heavenly stories . Exceptional publisher 2009.
• Jule D. Körber: Mr. M. and the matter with himself . With illustrations by Lino Wirag. Autumnus Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-938531-04-4 . As paperback: Autumnus Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-938531-23-5 .

Contributions to anthologies

• Darts . In: A poem by me. Contemporary poets introduce themselves. Edited by Dirk von Petersdorff . Reclam 2012. ISBN 978-3-15-010885-7 .
• Club meeting u. a. In: Smile . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-423-13779-9 .
• Materials to critique hip-hop culture . In: Petra Anders (Ed.): Slam Poetry. Working texts for lessons . Reclam 2008. ISBN 978-3-15-015060-3 .
• Alphabet . In: 16. Open Mike . Allitera Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-86906-000-2 .

Editions

• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 12. Brain hungry croissants. Exot Verlag 2011. ISSN  1861-6283 .
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 13. Troubled tenants. Satyr Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-9814891-4-9 .
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 14. Bartenderness. Satyr Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-944035-04-8 .
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 15. Summer slump. Satyr Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-944035-18-5 .
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 16. The black widow. Satyr Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-944035-25-3 .
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 17. Swiss cheese. Satyr Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-944035-41-3
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 18. Crater lance. Satyr Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-944035-48-2
• EXOTIC. Comic Literature Magazine # 19. Satyr Verlag 2015. ISBN 978-3-944035-59-8

Translations

• MARVEL Avengers: Lexicon of Superheroes (with Stefan Mesch). Dorling Kindersley 2014. ISBN 3-8310-2478-2 .
• MARVEL superheroes: The big sticker book . Dorling Kindersley 2014. ISBN 3-8310-2585-1 .

New editions

• Franz von Paula Gruithuisen : About the existence of sensation in the heads and rumps of the decapitated . (New edition, commentary, foreword: LW) Wunderkammer 2013. ISBN 978-1-4928-7795-0 .
• Hanns Heinz Ewers : My funeral. And other grotesques . With an afterword by Michael Helming . Wunderkammer 2014. ISBN 978-1-4947-4039-9 .
• Hanns Heinz Ewers: The Chinese crucifixion. And other horror stories . With an afterword by Axel Weiß. Wunderkammer: Munich 2014. ISBN 978-1-4949-3857-4 .

Scholarships and sponsorship awards (selection)

• Scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg 2008
• German cartoon prize for young talents (together with Jürgen Marschal) 2008
• Participant Open Mike of the Berliner Literaturwerkstatt 2008
• Scholarship from the writing workshop of the Literaturhaus München 2010
• Promotion Prize for Literature Update Bavaria 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Lino Wirag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of publications on the author's website.
2. ↑ "The best word artist comes from Pforzheim" , Welt online.