Marcus Roloff

Marcus Roloff (born January 31, 1973 in Neubrandenburg ) is a German writer .

life and work

Marcus Roloff grew up in Neustrelitz and, after the family moved to the Federal Republic, in Bremen . He studied modern German literature, philosophy and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1997 his first volume of poetry, Herbstkläger, was published .

Since then, poems and short prose have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies , including the Jahrbuch der Lyrik , the no longer existing ndl , the quarterly Neue Rundschau published by S. Fischer Verlag and daily newspapers such as NZZ , FAZ or Freie Presse , as well as online (between 2007 and 2010 ) in the forum of 13 and currently on lyrikkritik.de . In March 2015 his fourth book of poetry was published final artwork .

Marcus Roloff lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

reception

"Marcus Roloff [...] an excellent poetic geodesist, skilled in mapping 'permanent landscapes', demonstrates [...] not only his passion for deciphering visual constellations, but also his interest in overwriting traditional myths."

- Michael Braun , Poetry Pocket Calendar 2013

"If after all the swan songs on history, narrative and subject, on the possibility of knowledge and the definitive turning away from all progressive poetry from naive belief in images, any lyrical realism is still possible, then perhaps that of Marcus Roloff."

- Hendrik Jackson , Signature Magazine, 2015

“Instead, Roloff is about [...] common, everyday words: They are everywhere, easy to find, their meaning is quickly grasped; they are, so to speak, basic exercises in denotation - and yet, you don't know how, Marcus Roloff turns them into incomprehensible lexemes: into mysteriously deep, dark, prismatic, trawl-like terms, on which the multitude of ambivalent meanings of an entire biography is fixed. "

- Paul-Henri Campbell , Fixpoetry, 2015

Publications

Fall plaintiffs . Poems. Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1997. ISBN 978-3-928833-62-2
Memory formats . Poems. Gutleut Verlag , Frankfurt a. M./Weimar 2006. ISBN 978-3-936826-63-0
In the blind spot of the golden section . Poems. Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt a. M./Weimar 2010. ISBN 978-3-936826-49-4
permanent landscape / the lyrics - volume one (together with Arnfried Astel , Kristin Schulz and Michael Wagener ). Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2014. ISBN 978-3-936826-82-1
Final artwork . Poems. Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2015. ISBN 978-3-88423-501-0
Woods . Poems. Gonzo Verlag , Mainz 2017. ISBN 978-3-944564-28-9
Mogk's Bierstubb in Platon's Snow Globe , hochroth Verlag , Heidelberg 2019. ISBN 978-3-903182-53-0

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Björn Kuhligk and Jan Wagner (eds.), Poetry by Jetzt Zwei (50 voices) . Berlin Verlag , Berlin 2008
Christoph Buchwald and Jan Wagner (eds.), Yearbook of Poetry 2013 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2013
Stavros S. Karayanni (Ed.), Cadences. A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus , Volume 9. European University Cyprus, Nicosia 2013
Hiltrud Gnüg (ed.), Nothing is promised. Love poems of the present . Reclam-Verlag , Ditzingen 2014
Michael Braun (Ed.), The Second Creation. Poetry and fine arts (conversations with Klaus Merz , Silke Scheuermann and others), Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88423-522-5
Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (eds.), All this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene , kookbooks , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-937445-80-9
Hubert Spiegel (ed.), Frankfurt anthology . Fortieth volume. Poems and interpretations . Lim. by Marcel Reich-Ranicki , S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt a. M. 2017

Literary magazines

ndl , park, no man's land , Ostragehege , Neue Rundschau , (SIC) , wasp nest , noise culture , language in the technical age , poet

Translation (selection)

John Ashbery : An urbane country. Poems (translated by Erwin Einzinger , Gerhard Falkner , Joachim Sartorius , Uljana Wolf and others). Luxbooks publishing house, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939557-26-5

Ana Blandiana : Mysteries , Poems (translated together with Alexandru Bulucz ), in: Sinn und Form , H. 2/2017, Berlin 2017

Hans Thill (Hrsg.): Storch im Schnee. Poems from Serbia (translated by Marcel Beyer , Nadja Küchenmeister , Ilma Rakusa and others). Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-884235-58-4

Rafael Cadenas : Lamentations in the luggage. Poems (translated together with Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken ), parasitenpresse , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-947676-18-7

Leonard Cohen : The Flame - The Flame . Bilingual edition (translated together with Klaus Modick , Christian Lux, Kerstin Preiwuß and others), Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2018 ISBN 978-3-462-05221-3

Adalber Salas Hernández: The future wears out through use. Poems (translated together with Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken), hochroth Verlag , Heidelberg 2019 ISBN 978-3-903182-44-8

Peter Orlovsky : Wiped clean (poems, bilingual). With an introduction by Gregory Corso and an afterword by Hans Jürgen Balmes, Stadtlichter Presse , Wenzendorf 2020 ISBN 978-3-947883-07-3

Settings

Péter Kőszeghy (* 1971): PRIAPOS for 4 voices, flute, oboe, bassoon, saxophone, percussion and electronic tape. WP April 2010 (intersonanzen-Festival, Potsdam)
Christian Löffler (* 1985): Swift Code [sound carrier], Ki-Records, Cologne 2012