Lutz Seiler

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Lutz Seiler presents his novel Kruso at the Erlangen Poetenfest 2014 .

Lutz Seiler (born June 8, 1963 in Gera ) is a German writer . At first he emerged mainly as a poet . In 2014 he was awarded the German Book Prize for his debut novel Kruso . In 2020 he received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his novel Stern 111 .

Life

Lutz Seiler grew up in East Thuringia. His home village Culmitzsch in 1968 for uranium mining the Wismut looped, after which the family first to Korbußen moved until you finally a new flat in Gera- Langenberg was assigned. Here Seiler attended the polytechnic high school " Bruno Kühn ". In Gera he completed his vocational training as a construction worker and worked as a carpenter and bricklayer. He completed the basic military service of the NVA in Merseburg . During his time in the army he began to be interested in literature and to write himself. In the summer of 1989, Seiler worked as a seasonal worker on the island of Hiddensee ; an experience that he later processed in his debut novel. Until the beginning of 1990 he studied history and German at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) . In 1990 Seiler went to Berlin, where he worked as a waiter for several years. From 1993 to 1998 he was co-founder and co-editor of the literary magazine moosbrand . Since 1997 he has headed the literary program at the Peter Huchel House in Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam. In 2004/2005 he was visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Seiler lives as a freelance writer in Wilhelmshorst and Stockholm. He has been married to a Swedish Germanist since 2009.

Seiler has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2005 , since April 2007 a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and since 2010 of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , the Saxon Academy of the Arts and the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 2011 he was elected a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . Seiler was a guest of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo . In 2015 he took over the Heidelberg poetry lectureship under the motto fretsaw and mock bridge. From the history of writing.

In 2007 Lutz Seiler was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the story Turksib . His collection of short stories, Die Zeitwaage, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2010 . For his debut novel Kruso , published in September 2014, he received the German Book Prize . The novel was translated into 22 languages, adapted several times for the theater and filmed by the UFA. For his novel Stern 111 he received the Leipzig Book Fair 2020 prize in the “ Fiction ” category .

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Single title (poetry and prose)

  • touched / guided. Poems. Oberbaum Verlag, Chemnitz 1995.
  • bad luck & dazzle. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-518-12161-0 .
  • Homes . With Anne Duden and Farhad Showghi . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89244-464-0 .
  • Hubertusweg. Three poems. Ulrich Keicher Publishing House, Warmbronn 2001.
  • forty kilometers at night. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-41457-6 .
  • On Sundays I thought of God. Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-518-12314-0 .
  • The invocation. Essay. Ulrich Keicher publishing house, Warmbronn 2005.
  • Turksib. Two stories. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41968-7 .
  • The timing machine. Stories. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-518-42115-4 .
  • Aranka . Poem and commentary. Ulrich Keicher Publishing House, Warmbronn 2010.
  • In the marrow . Poems. With original woodcuts by Stefan Knechtel. Edited by Bettina Haller. Sonnenberg-Presse, Chemnitz 2011.
  • in field Latin. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42169-7 .
  • In the pine vault. Peter Huchel and the history of his house . With Peter Walther and Hendrik Röder. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-142-6 .
  • In the cinema bunker . Narrative. Ulrich Keicher Publishing House, Warmbronn 2012.
  • Kruso . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42447-6 .
  • The Roman season. Two essays. With drawings by Max P. Häring. Topalian & Milani Verlag , Ulm 2016, ISBN 978-3-946423-03-4 .
  • At the Cape of the Good Evening. Eight picture stories. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-19455-2 .
  • Stern 111 , novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42925-9 .

Release

  • moss burn . Zeitschrift für Literatur, self-published from 1993 to 1995 as original graphic booklets (with Klaus Michael), from 1996 by Gerhard Wolf Janus press Berlin (from issue 5 with Birgit Dahlke and Peter Walther), Wilhelmshorst and Berlin 1993–1998.
  • Yearbook of Poetry 2003 (with Christoph Buchwald), CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • Peter Huchel (Mit Peter Walther), Edition Text and Criticism, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-88377-727-6 .
  • Christoph Meckel , approximately without death in the shade of the trees. Selected poems with a conversation as an afterword, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-446-20275-7 .
  • Oskar Loerke, Complete Poems , ed. By Uwe Pörksen and Wolfgang Menzel, with an essay by Lutz Seiler, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0411-6 .

Radio plays

  • Turksib , director: Thomas Fritz, speaker: Bernhard Schütz, Marina Frenk u. a., MDR, 2011.
  • Kruso , adaptation and direction: Ulrich Gerhardt , speaker: Jens Harzer, Deutschlandradio Kultur / MDR, 2015.

Audio books

  • 7 Poems by Lutz Seiler . 1 mini CD. Accompanied by Anna Homler (Percussion / Voice) and Michael Intriere (Violincello), Los Angeles 2003.
  • before the era . 1 audio CD. Poems and a short story, read by Christian Brückner and by the author, Argon Hörbuch Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-935125-64-2 .
  • Kruso . 9 audio CDs. Read by Franz Dinda, audio book Hamburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86909-184-6 .
  • Star 111 . 2 mp3 CDs. Unabridged reading by Lutz Seiler, Audio Verlag Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7424-1434-2 .

Translations

  • Georges Castera, poems, in: Vers Schmuggel , Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-88423-208-8 .
  • Ken Babstock, poems, in: Vers Schmuggel , Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88423-299-6 .
  • Ken Babstock, Poems (from Canadian English based on interlining versions by Eva Bonné), in: Language in the Technical Age , Issue 202, July 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-22327-4 .

Anthologies (selection)

  • Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present , Düsseldorf 2008.
  • Christoph Buchwald (Ed.): Yearbook of Poetry , Frankfurt am Main, various volumes.
  • Christiane Collorio, Peter Hamm, Harald Hartung and Michael Krüger (eds.): Poetry voices. The Library of Poets , Hörverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86717-338-4 .
  • Ron Winkler (Ed.): Snow poems , Frankfurt am Main 2011.
  • Martin Janowski (Ed.): Night bus to Mitte , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-55-8 .
  • Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All of this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9 .

Translations of Seiler's works into English

  • In the year one . Selected Poems, translated by Tony Frazer, choice of pitch & blind and forty kilometers night, Sydney 2005, ISBN 1-920882-11-1 .
  • Poems . Translated by Andrew Duncan, Duration Press, 2005.
  • Kruso . Translated by Tess Lewis, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-911344-00-1 .
  • in field latin . Poems, translated by Alexander Booth, translation by im felderlatein , Seagull books, London, New York, Calcutta 2015, ISBN 978-0-85742-336-8 .

Awards

Literature (selection)

  • Sibylle Cramer : The playful ease of linking wide-ranging subjects, a language that goes far beyond the semantics of our dictionaries . Laudation for the Christoph Wagner Prize 2012 for Lutz Seiler. In: Warmbronner Schriften, Heft 26, ed. by Axel Kuhn published by Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn 2012.
  • Sebastian Kleinschmidt: In the east of the country. About Lutz Seiler . In: Sinn und Form , Heft 6, 2014, pp. 841ff. ISBN 978-3-943297-20-1
  • Lothar Müller: Rearguard in the early light . Laudation to Lutz Seiler for the awarding of the Marie-Luiese-Kaschnitz Prize 2015. http://web.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/cms/fileadmin/content/Die%20Akademie/Aktuelles/pdf/Laudatio-Mueller-2. pdf
  • Georg Brosche: Narrative of masculinity (s) in Lutz Seiler's novel "Kruso", University of Greifswald 2015.
  • Christiane Baumann: Transformation processes I. The novel "Kruso" by Lutz Seiler on stage , in: Studia Niemcoznawcze, Warsaw 2016.

Web links

Commons : Lutz Seiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Frank Quilitzsch: Book Prize Winner Lutz Seiler: "Didn't want to write about Hiddensee". Thüringische Landeszeitung, April 19, 2015, accessed on October 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Lutz Seiler is the poet of sounds. Welt Online, July 15, 2007, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/buchpreis-favorit-lutz-seiler-im-interview-hiddensee-war-eine-art-jenseitserlebnis/10795374.html
  4. ↑ member entry of Lutz Seiler at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
  5. ↑ Heidelberg poetry lecturer with Lutz Seiler. idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, May 21, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Prize winners 2020. In: preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de. March 12, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ https://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/druckfrisch/videos/druckfrisch-seiler-video-100.html Video: Druckfisch interview with Denis Scheck about Stern 111 , accessed on March 29, 2020
  8. ↑ Lutz Seiler receives the German Narrator Award 2010, Frankfurter Rundschau from April 10, 2010
  9. ^ Lutz Seiler receives Uwe Johnson Prize, buchmarkt.de of July 21, 2014
  10. ↑ 83rd Kaschnitz Prize for Lutz Seiler. Lyrikzeitung.com, September 24, 2014, accessed September 26, 2014 .
  11. ↑ http://www.bild.de/lifestyle/aktuelles/literatur/thueringer-literaturpreis-fuer-lutz-seiler-51647238.bild.html , accessed on May 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Seiler, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera