Martin Piekar

Martin Piekar at a reading of the Munich reading series my three lyrical selves , May 2015

Martin Piekar (born August 5, 1990 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) is a German-speaking Polish poet who lives in Germany .

Life

Piekar was born as a child of Polish immigrants in Bad Soden am Taunus, Hesse, and has only Polish citizenship. His parents fled the then People's Republic of Poland to the Federal Republic of Germany for political reasons in the 1980s . His father returned to his homeland after reunification .

By letter Piekar began already during his school days. He is currently studying philosophy and history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and is a member of sexyunderground , a group of young authors from the Frankfurt literary house . Many of his poems have been published in literary magazines such as etcetera and Federwelt . In 2012 he took part in the Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory and won the prestigious open mike competition of the Berlin literature workshop in the poetry category.

Publications

• Bastard echo. Publishing house J. Frank, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940249-90-6
• AmokperVers . Verlagshaus Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-945832-25-7

Awards

• 2007: Participant in the writing room
• 2010: Winner of "Poem of the Year" from Deutschlandradio
• 2012: Scholarship from the Wolfenbüttel Literature Laboratory
• 2012: 20th Open Mike of the Berlin Literature Workshop, Poetry Prize Winner
• 2015: hr2 literature prize 2015
• 2016: hr2 literature prize 2016
• 2018: Irseer Pegasus (jury award) for the poetry cycle scripted virtuality
• 2018: Nomination for the Merano Poetry Prize

Web links

Commons : Martin Piekar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Author website
• Portrait of Martin Piekar in the Frankfurter Neue Presse
• Short biography and information on the work of Martin Piekar at Poetenladen
• Short biography and information on the work of Martin Piekar at fixpoetry
• Tsundoku podcast - Martin Piekar in conversation with Andrea Diener (December 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Weimar: Bastard in Black. Frankfurter Rundschau, July 28, 2015, accessed on July 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Tom Weimar: Bastard in Black. Frankfurter Rundschau, July 28, 2015, accessed on July 31, 2015 . 
3. ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Poetry: Black Romantic. In: fr-online.de. December 4, 2012, accessed December 18, 2014 .