Lydia Hence

Lydia Therefore at the Lyrikmarkt Berlin 2017

Lydia Hence (* 1980 in Berlin ) is a German poet and singer .

Life

Lydia Hence was born to German-Lebanese parents in Berlin and grew up in Cologne . She is a poet and musician and works alone or together with other national and international artists in the field of visual arts and radio plays. She also works regularly as a curator for cross-disciplinary cultural events and lecturer in creative writing. Her work has been published many times in magazines and anthologies and has been awarded prizes and grants. Some of her poems were u. a. Translated into English, Cantonese, Spanish, Czech, Polish and Arabic. On behalf of the Goethe-Institut she traveled for readings, concerts, collaborations and workshops, etc. a. to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Algiers, Warsaw, Prague, Volgograd, Moscow and Buenos Aires. Her work in the field of fine arts has already been shown in solo exhibitions.

In 2005 she reached third place at the German International Poetry Slam in Leipzig . In 2007 Trikont released the CD Lydia Therefore with self-written German-language pop songs. In March 2008, her collection of poems, Kein Tamtam, was published for this day , for which she received the City of Augsburg's Art Prize (2009) and the Märkische Stipendium for Literature (2010). In March 2012 her collection of poems was published, so, this world . The BR television portrayed the artist in 2014 in the documentation A day in the life of Lydia Daher .

Lydia Hence lives as a freelance writer and musician in Berlin .

Works

• Beirut Blues. Ubooks, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-935798-99-7 .
• (Ed.): Vocal Patriots - A Poetry Slam Sampler. Ubooks, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-937536-33-7 .
• No fanfare for this day. Voland & Quist, 2008, ISBN 3-938424-26-5 .
• Overall so, this world. , Voland & Quist, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86391-005-1 .
• And now, in relation to the whole - this. 101 collages, Voland & Quist. 2014
• Small satellites. Graphic Poetry, Maro Verlag. 2016, ISBN 978-3-87512-470-5 .

Discography

• 2007: Lydia Hence (Trikont / Indigo)
• 2010: Fugitive Citizens (Trikont)
• 2015: Algiers (with Tatafull, Trikont)

Awards

• 2009: Art Prize of the City of Augsburg
• 2010: Märkisches scholarship for literature
• 2012: Bavarian Art Prize

literature

• Billy Badger: The poem re-spells the world: Sampling and Lydia Daher's collages . In: German Studies Review, Vol. 42, 2019, Issue 1, pp. 57–77.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ / BR 45 min

Web links

Commons : Lydia Hence  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Lydia Hence in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lydia's website
• Interview on ZEIT-online