Martina Hefter

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Martina Hefter (left) in conversation with Monika Rinck (right) at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

Martina Hefter (born June 11, 1965 in Pfronten , Allgäu) is a German writer .

Life

Martina Hefter works as a performance artist and writer at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, where she has lived since 1997 . In her works she combines linguistic and dance elements. In 2012, for example, she initiated the “movement writer. Seal meets dance "at Dock 11 (Berlin) and designed in August 2013 as part of the project" Speaking corridors. KOOKwalks durch Berlin “a choreographic game in which a spatial installation was created from opinions and attitudes to poems.

Awards

Martina Hefter received a. a. the following awards: 2002 a grant from the Cultural Foundation of Saxony , 2003 Literature grant from the City of Leipzig, in 2005 the prize for Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony and a Hermann Lenz Scholarship . Also in 2005 she took part in the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In 2008 Hefter won the Meran Poetry Prize and the Munich Poetry Prize in 2018 .

Works

Web links

Commons : Martina Hefter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Pearl divers
  2. ↑ Poet's Shop
  3. Portrait on the pages of the Bachmann Prize
  4. Merano Poetry Prize
  5. Review of Young Dogs , in Die Zeit 32/2002, accessed June 3, 2020
  6. Nico Bleutge : Frankfurter Anthologie: Martina Hefter: “She doesn't speak anymore” , FAZ from May 16, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020