Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer (born November 23, 1965 in Tailfingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German writer who has emerged primarily as a poet , epic poet , essayist and editor . He is the recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize 2016.
life and work
Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss . From 1987 to 1991 he studied German , English and literature at the University of Siegen ; In 1992 he obtained his master's degree there with a thesis on Friederike Mayröcker . Performance works have been created since 1987 . From 1989 he edited the series Forgotten Authors of Modernism at the University of Siegen with Karl Riha . From 1990 to 1993 he worked as a lecturer on the literary magazine concepts . In 1992 he also contributed to the music magazine Spex until 1998 . He was Writer in Residence at University College London in 1996 , at the University of Warwick in Coventry in 1998 and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin-Dahlem in 2008 . He is a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the PEN Center Germany .
Beyer, who was initially heavily influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French Nouveau Roman , is the author of poetry , essays and novels that repeatedly deal with German history - especially with the era of National Socialism . In 2016 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize . In its explanation, the German Academy for Language and Poetry explains: “His texts are bold and delicate, insightful and incorruptible. In this way, over three decades, an unmistakable work has been created that makes the world appear both wondrously familiar and iridescent. "
Beyer has lived in Dresden since 1996 .
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Single track
- Small toothpaste . Poems 1987–1989. dead language press, Paris 1989
- Whale male. Poems 1988/1989 (= Patios Rarity Books ; Volume 27). Patio, Neu-Isenburg 1990 DNB 956464572 .
- The human flesh. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40329-X .
- Friederike Mayröcker: a bibliography 1946–1990 (= bibliographies on literary and media history . Volume 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-631-45400-7 .
- Brewing cloud. Poems (with paper casts by Klaus Zylla ). Warnke, Berlin 1994
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Fruit bats. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-40684-1 .
- Radio play version by Iris Drögekamp 2013 produced and broadcast by SWR2
- ENT theater in the undershirt (= bow . Volume 4). Warnke, Berlin 1995, OCLC 312506024 .
- Wrong feed. Poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-12005-0 .
- Spies. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5417-7 .
- To the sea. (With drypoint etchings by Andreas Zahlaus). Warnke, Berlin 2001
- Geography. Poems. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-6007-8 .
- Nonfiction. Essays. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7835-X .
- Forget me Narrative. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7968-2 .
- Aurora. Munich speeches on poetry. Lyrik Kabinett Foundation , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-938776-02-1 .
- Kaltenburg. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41920-5 , ( table of contents )
- Work food apartment. Incidental music for fourteen gentlemen. Opera libretto (composition by Enno Poppe )
- IQ. Test battery in 8 files. Opera libretto (composition by Enno Poppe). Premiere: April 27, 2012, Schwetzingen SWR Festival
- Putin's mailbox. Stories. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-46324-6 .
- Graphite. Poems. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42440-7
- XX. Lichtenberg poetics lectures (= Göttinger Sudelblätter ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1674-4 .
- In the Situation Room: the decisive moment. Speech to the high school graduates of the year 2015. Conte, Sankt Ingbert 2014, ISBN 978-3-95602-058-2 .
- Talk to the language: there is an A (= But the language . Volume 6). Paths through the country, Detmold 2016, ISBN 978-3-946156-01-7 .
- Mace. Zwiesprachen - A series of the Lyrik Kabinett Munich. The Wunderhorn Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88423-532-4 .
- They called it language. Essays. Brueterich Press, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945-22907-1 .
- The blind weeping century. Picture and sound. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42578-7 .
- Demon clearing service poems, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42945-7 .
Release
- Rudolf Blümner : The chair, the slap and other literary puppet theater. ( Forgotten authors of the modern age, No. 35.) Siegen 1988. ISSN 0177-9869
- Ernst Jandl : Teamwork. (Written together with Friederike Mayröcker and Andreas Okopenko ). Wins 1989.
- Rudolf Blümner: Ango laina and other texts. (With Karl Riha ). Munich 1993.
- George Grosz : Grosz-Berlin. (With Karl Riha). Hamburg 1993.
- William S. Burroughs . (With Andreas Kramer). Eggingen 1995.
- Yearbook of Poetry 1998/99. Sufficiently clear explanation. (With Christoph Buchwald). Munich 1998.
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Friederike Mayröcker : Collected prose. (With Klaus Reichert and Klaus Kastberger). Frankfurt am Main 2001.
- Volume 1. 1949-1977.
- Volume 2. 1978-1986.
- Volume 3. 1987-1991.
- Volume 4. 1991-1995.
- Volume 5. 1996-2001.
- Friederike Mayröcker: Collected poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41631-6 .
translation
- Gertrude Stein : spider web time, bee time vine and other poems. Edited and with an afterword by Marcel Beyer. Arche, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7160-2158-X .
- Michael Hofmann : Fine adjustments. Bilingual edition. DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-4758-8 .
radio play
- The radio play from the radio play. (About the Karl Sczuka Prize ), SWR 2007.
- Jonathan Trouern trend : Birding Babylon. Radio play adaptation: Marcel Beyer, director: Iris Drögekamp, SWR / NDR 2009.
- Fruit bats. Directed by Iris Drögekamp, SWR, 2012.
Audio book
- Francis Nenik : Journey through a tragicomic century. Hasso Grabner's crazy life . Voland & Quist , Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-863911-98-0 , including book reading on CD, read by Marcel Beyer.
Anthologies (selection)
- Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.): All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene. kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9 .
- Karl Otto Conrady (ed.): The great Conrady . The book of German poems. From the beginning to the present. Düsseldorf 2008.
- Björn Kuhligk , Jan Wagner (Ed.): Poetry from Now. 74 votes. Cologne 2003.
- Young lyric. (= New Neuss series ). Neuss 1983.
Graphic novel
- Ulli Lust : fruit bats. Text by Marcel Beyer. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-46426-7 .
Awards
- 1991: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann scholarship
- 1991: Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt
- 1991: Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for literature
- 1994: Scholarship from the Lower Saxony Foundation for fruit bats
- 1995: German Critics' Prize
- 1996: Berlin Literature Prize
- 1996: Johannes Bobrowski Medal
- 1997: Uwe Johnson Prize
- 1998: Sponsorship award for the Horst Bienek Prize for poetry
- 1999: Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
- 2000: Jean-Paul Literature Prize from the City of Bayreuth
- 2001: Heinrich Böll Prize
- 2003: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the university and the university city of Tübingen
- 2004: Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize
- 2006: Erich Fried Prize
- 2008: Joseph Breitbach Prize
- 2008: Nomination for the German Book Prize (longlist) for Kaltenburg
- 2008: Liliencron lectureship
- 2010: Scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- 2012/2013: City Clerk of Bergen
- 2013: Ernst Jandl lecturer in poetics at the University of Vienna
- 2014: Kleist Prize
- 2014: Oskar Pastior Prize
- 2014: Lichtenberg Poetics Lecturer
- 2015: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen , for graphite. Poems
- 2016: Düsseldorf Literature Prize
- 2016: Georg Büchner Prize
- 2019: Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
- 2019: Art Prize of the State Capital Dresden
literature
- Christof Hamann (Ed.): Marcel Beyer . text + kritik , edition 218/219, Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86916-680-3 .
- Christian Klein (Ed.): Marcel Beyer. Perspectives on the author and work . Metzler, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-04580-5 .
- Henning Ziebritzki : The Janus head of the language dog . On the self-image of the poet in the poetry of Marcel Beyer . In: Counterstrophe. Sheets on poetry , 4th edition, Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2012, pp. 70–73.
- Theo Breuer : From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 . Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005, ISBN 3-87512-186-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Marcel Beyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Marcel Beyer at Literaturport
- Short biography and reviews of works by Marcel Beyer at perlentaucher.de
- Writers avoid the madness today , interview with Martin Eich in Der Freitag from July 30, 2015
- Jasmin Herold in conversation with Marcel Beyer in berlinerzimmer.de
- Interview with Marcel Beyer in the FAZ
- Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
- Marcel Beyer in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Beyer as Writer in Residence. (PDF; 115 kB) Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Press release. 2008.
- ↑ Marcel Beyer receives the 2016 Büchner Prize. Boersenblatt.net, June 28, 2016, accessed on June 28, 2016.
- ^ "Graphit" by Marcel Beyer: When the vocabulary opens up. Review by Tobias Lehmkuhl on Deutschlandfunk on February 12, 2015, accessed February 12, 2015.
- ↑ Video: Poetry Recommendations 2015, “Graphit” by Marcel Beyer , presented by Michael Braun at the Leipzig Book Fair , accessed on YouTube on June 20, 2016.
- ^ Review by Lothar Müller in Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 88 of 15./16./17. April 2017, p. 20.
- ↑ Hortensia Völckers awards the Kleist Prize to Marcel Beyer. Buchmarkt.de from May 12, 2014, accessed on May 12, 2014.
- ↑ Open poetic terrain. In: Börsenblatt. May 27, 2014, accessed May 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Marcel Beyer wins the Düsseldorf Literature Prize. rp-online.de
- ↑ Marcel Beyer receives Georg Büchner Prize , zeit.de, June 28, 2016.
- ↑ Helmut Böttiger : Commentary , zeit.de
- ^ FAZ.net, Tilman Spreckelsen : Report of the award ceremony and speech
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beyer, Marcel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tailfingen |